Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology has renamed its 25-year-old Department of Information Engineering as the Department of Metaverse Engineering. The university says it is the first in China to offer a metaverse major, according to a local media report.

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• Without further details on the curriculum, Pan Zhigeng, dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence – to which the metaverse department belongs – said he plans to jointly train metaverse-focused teachers, doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows with the Polytechnic University. of Hong Kong in the future, according to Hong Kong media HK01.

• In August, the university reached an agreement with Yalong Intelligent Equipment Group to…