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Sir Michael Brady believes generous scholarships and opportunity to create post-oil economy will prove attractive
The president of the world’s first graduate-level university focusing on artificial intelligence has said that its location in the Middle East has the potential to be a “unique” attraction for students.
The Mohamed bin [!Zayed University!] of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), in Abu Dhabi, will offer MSc and PhD coursesin machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing.
Interim president Sir Michael Brady, emeritus professor of oncological imaging at the University of Oxford, said that the aim was to attract some of the world’s brightest students to the United Arab Emirates, in the hope that they will work in the country after graduation and help it make the transition to a post-oil economy.
Sir Michael told Times Higher Education that there was “very substantial competition” for AI talent around the world and that...