<p>Hi, what's the best double major for someone interested in succeeding in artificial intelligence research after college?</p>
<p>Of course, Computer Science is primary. Or is it Computer Engineering? There's also mathematics and its subdivisions (like applied math or statistics), any of the cognitive sciences (linguistics, psych, neuroscience, etc.) and so forth.</p>
<p>I'm also wondering how much extensive grounding in neuroscience or cognitive psychology can inform AI research.</p>
<p>Look into logic too.</p>
<p>Just cs. Specialization that narrow would come in grad school.</p>
<p>1) Computer Science</p>
<p>2) Cognitive Science/Neuroscience</p>
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<p>But I’ve got the hunger, man.</p>
<p>Computer Science and Engineering (or Electrical Engineering) and Philosophy. Dual Major (BS/BA). You’re options are literally endless.</p>
<p>Literally? Rationale?</p>
<p>Computer science is probably more appropriate than computer engineering, in general, for artificial intelligence. What interests you about artificial intelligence? Possibilities are limitless.</p>
<p>Computer science can help with creating and understanding artificially intelligent systems. Areas of psychology, neuroscience and biology can help with understanding how human beings and other animals are intelligent. Philosophy and theology can help explain what it means to be intelligent and why that matters.</p>
<p>To your other question - how much knowing about one aspect can influence another - that’s a completely open question. However, my bet is that the answer is somewhere between “a lot” and “more than we can imagine”.</p>
<p>I want to go into AI so that I can study the nature of thought by implementing and then studying systems that mimic it — and then apply these findings in interesting ways.</p>
<p>The idea is that a stronger-than-normal grounding in biologically intelligent systems will lead to success in building artificial ones.</p>
<p>Computer science. Consider out-of-major electives in psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and certain areas of math and biology.</p>
<p>It’s just that I’m really interested in learning about cognitive systems while in college and majoring in CS without anything else seems to preclude that…</p>
<p>I want the content in one field to be accentuating my zest for the other. ^_^</p>
<p>Perhaps something along the lines of computer science and neuroscience if that is possible!</p>
<p>What would you say is the best double major for someone wanting to pursue a career in software engineering.?</p>
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<p>Well, computer science by itself is fine. Although many CS schools are good at producing good programmers but lousy software engineers, so find a program that emphasizes good software engineering practices (I like OSU’s).</p>
<p>Math pairs well with CS, as does physics and electrical engineering and computer engineering. Really any STEM field pairs well with CS, any engineer or scientist of any kind who can write software is ceterus paribus more valuable than one who can’t.</p>