Good news for graduates
Futurist Ray Kurzweil leads a new school called Singularity University that will explore a time when computers are more intelligent than people. The university will be sited at Nasa’s Ames Research Centre in Silicon Valley, close to Google’s headquarters.

The idea of Singularity University is to assemble graduates from 10 different fields including biotechnology, finance, entrepreneurship, networks, computer system, etc, and offer courses on biotechnology, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. And to make students look at the same set of problems from different angles.

“The magic of breakthroughs occurs when you have nontraditional thinking around a problem that is stuck,” another founder of University Diamandis said. “It’s when a mathematician works on a biological problem, for example.”The size of future classes will expand to 120 students. Tuition is set at $25,000.
Google has become a sponsor of Singularity University.