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CTOnews.com, September 24, according to Modern KuaiBao, Nanjing Information Engineering University held an unveiling ceremony yesterday, and the Information Engineering Department of the School of artificial Intelligence (Future Technology College) has now changed its name to the Department of Metacosmos Engineering.

According to reports, the meta-cosmic engineering department of the Institute of artificial Intelligence is the first department named after the meta-universe in domestic colleges and universities.

Prior to this, Nanjing Information Engineering University and the Enterprise Co-Construction Institute of Metacosmos further explored a new model of deep integration of discipline construction and personnel training.

Pan Zhigeng, dean of the School of artificial Intelligence (School of Future Technology) of Nan Xin University, said that the Department of Metacosmos Engineering of the School of artificial Intelligence is the first department in a domestic university to be named after the meta-universe. In the future, Nanxin University is committed to creating a new highland for metacosmos teaching, research, industry-education integration, academic exchanges, high-level personnel training and international cooperation. Rely on the meta-universe research institute to recruit high-level talents.

Pan Zhigeng also revealed that in the future, he will also take the lead in preparing the meta-universe special committee of the Jiangsu Society of artificial Intelligence, and plans to jointly train master's, doctoral and postdoctoral students in meta-universe with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

It is worth mentioning that in August this year, Nanjing Information Engineering University and other units jointly sponsored the "Innovation Forum on the Integration of artificial Intelligence and Education under the background of Meta-Universe and the Seminar on the Construction of Modern Industrial Colleges." to further explore the new model of discipline construction and personnel training with deep integration.

According to public data, Nanjing Information Engineering University (Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology,NUIST), referred to as "Nanxin University", was founded in 1960 by the people's Government of Jiangsu Province, the Ministry of Education of the people's Republic of China and the China Meteorological Administration, as well as by the people's Government of Jiangsu Province and the State Oceanic Administration, featuring atmospheric science, environmental science and information science and technology. Multi-disciplinary provincial key universities with other disciplines enjoy the reputation of "cradle of Chinese meteorological talents", belong to the national "double first-class" construction universities, and are Class A construction universities in Jiangsu High-level University Construction Plan.

The School of artificial Intelligence (College of Future Technology) was established in Nanjing Information Engineering University in July 2021. The school's artificial intelligence major is the first batch of 35 approved artificial intelligence undergraduate majors in China.

CTOnews.com reported that the concept of meta-universe began with the science fiction Avalanche written by American writer Neil Stephenson in 1992. Stephenson's book depicts a surreal digital space called "Metaverse", in which people who are blocked by geographical space can interact with each other through their avatars, spend their leisure time and control their income at will.

Xinhua News Agency previously quoted several interviewees as saying that meta-universe, as a carrier of the integration of the virtual world and the real world, contains great opportunities for social, content, game, office and other scene change. it is a new type of Internet application and social form produced by the integration of block chain and other new technologies.

However, today's so-called meta-universe is still in its infancy, and most companies are still in their infancy.

Professor Zhu Jiaming, director of the academic and Technical Committee of the Digital assets Research Institute, once said: the connotation of "meta-universe" is to absorb the achievements of the information revolution (5G / 6G), the Internet revolution (web3.0), the artificial intelligence revolution, and the virtual reality revolution of VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), MR (hybrid reality), especially game engines. "

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