SAP SE, a German supplier of enterprise applications and business AI software has gifted $2 million to the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California Irvine. University of California Irvine will use the gift to establish the Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence, named after SAP’s co-founder.
“UC Irvine has been a global leader for research in artificial intelligence for decades, and the establishment of the Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence will further strengthen that position,” said Marios Papaefthymiou, Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean of the Bren School since 2017. “Through this endowment, SAP joins us in our school’s mission to help shape the future by advancing human-centered computing technologies.”
The funds allocated to support the faculty member in this chair position will allow and support the development of graduate and undergraduate courses in AI, oversee initiation of interdisciplinary research projects, and support advanced computer science infrastructure.
The Bren School will host a public event with a lecture by the faculty member selected for the position, to formally inaugurate the Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence.
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