Artificial Intelligence University

The Artificial Intelligence University (motto: "R-R8 mate") is located in Zwangzug: it is probably the most well-known of the country's universities.

Academics

Artificial Intelligence

As the name implies, the AIU's core focus is exploring and developing artificial intelligence technology. Professor Emeritus Egbert B. Gebstadter leads this process. The most successful product of this research is BOB 64, coach of the Zwangzug national football team (see below). While the traveling hardware should have remote access to the gargantuan mainframe at the campus, the nature of fractal reality can make this difficult. For this reason, an AIU techie accompanies the team to keep BOB functioning. Future editions of BOB are planned, but the department is also working on other projects. More recently, Professor Gebstadter has been involved in the founding of Plutoni, meant to be a human/robot coexisting utopia.

Other Disciplines

The university also offers other areas of study, though they are not as emphasized. It lacks a medical school, though those are relatively common in the country. Students are often found "debating the merits of various civil and political rights": utopian dreams of a society ruled by just (meaning fair, but also solely) computers are common. Other students use the laboratories for programming games in which users make policy decisions for virtual nations.

Campus Life

Conservationist efforts led to the restriction of fishing. The low-tech wood and humorous commentary (vandalism) make this sign an iconic symbol of the AIU.

Students enjoy the beautiful shores of the Deep Blue Lake, on which the campus is located. Two of the university's most notable former students are Alan Babbage and Charles Turing: after expressing boredom with tossing plastic disks around and anger that fishing was prohibited, Babbage suggested that the country find another type of athletics: specifically, football. Turing volunteered to lead programming efforts for a coach: in lieu of a thesis, he and Professor Gebstadter collaborated to create BOB. They are now reporters for Zwangzug Broadcasting, covering the team: after realizing that Babbage and Turing were unlikely to to complete their studies, the regents granted them honorary degrees.

Algebraic English is widely spoken on campus, but many researchers are attempting to make the computers more receptive to descriptive. Red Knight's Time of Your Death is a tradition at graduations.