Stephanie Hughes

I'm Stephanie Hughes.

We're back with Keri George, Senior Research Associate at the Nonprofit Computing Research Association.

I understand some colleges are starting to offer more specialized classes within the comp sci major that focus on AI.

Is this kind of a way of adapting to attract more students?

And we should say there are still over 600,000 undergrads studying computer and information science in the U.S.

This puts it in the top 10 majors in the country, like way above math and English and agriculture.

So how serious is this shift?

If we do have fewer people studying computer science, what could the implications be for the future?

What ramifications could that have for the larger economy?

Carrie George is with the Computing Research Association.

Daniel Shin produced this episode.

I'm Stephanie Hughes at Matt's Marketplace Tech.

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Caterpillar, maker of those big yellow machines, is profiting from the AI boom.

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I'm Stephanie Hughes.

Caterpillar, which manufactures heavy-duty equipment, including asphalt pavers, diesel engine locomotives, and industrial gas turbines, has been around for 101 years.

And now the company seems to be one of the big winners of the AI infrastructure build-out.

Big tech companies are working as fast as possible to get their data centers up to power artificial intelligence.

Some are building their own natural gas plants to provide electricity for those data centers.