The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi has been selected by the European Union as one of the eight Universities across the World for a Grant to start a Masters Degree programme in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
A statement on Saturday signed by ATBU Director of Information and Public Relations, Zailani Bappa, said five of the universities are located in Nigeria while the other three are in Europe.
They are the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, the University of Port Harcourt; the University of Abuja, the Obafemi Awolowo University; and the Michael Okpara University, Umudike.
“Approval for the Grant was given by the EU culture executive agency to establish international M.Sc. Programme in embedded Artificial Intelligence as part of its vision for human capacity development in Higher Institutions
“The EU Erasmus is aimed at integrating artificial capabilities into embedded systems to enhance skill set for modelling, design and analysis for Engineers.
“It has the capability to strengthen the Nigerian Higher Education training curricular with state-of-the-art, European standard technology. The programme will last for 36 months,” the statement said.
