{"id":256366,"date":"2026-05-26T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/tcus-10-million-ai-investment-takes-center-stage\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:00:23","slug":"tcus-10-million-ai-investment-takes-center-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/tcus-10-million-ai-investment-takes-center-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"TCU\u2019s $10 Million AI Investment Takes Center Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcu.edu\/news\/2026\/tcus-10-million-ai-investment-takes-center-stage.php\">TCU\u2019s $10 Million AI Investment Takes Center Stage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcu.edu\/news\/2026\/tcus-10-million-ai-investment-takes-center-stage.php\">https:\/\/www.tcu.edu\/news\/2026\/tcus-10-million-ai-investment-takes-center-stage.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-26 23:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.tcu.edu\">www.tcu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                           Carlo Capua, Bob Francis, Kelly Baggett, Adam Powell and Reuben Burch<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Reuben Burch describes the moment artificial intelligence stopped being theoretical,<br \/>\n                     he starts on a tarmac in Memphis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As engineering principal for FedEx Express in 2014, Burch helped launch one of the<br \/>\n                     company\u2019s first autonomous vehicle programs, a \u201csandbox autonomy\u201d experiment focused<br \/>\n                     on route planning and collision avoidance among the planes, packages and people of<br \/>\n                     FedEx\u2019s largest hub. The work put him at the leading edge of machine learning before<br \/>\n                     the term had become a boardroom staple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now TCU\u2019s vice provost for research, Burch is bringing that perspective to TCU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBefore I was in academia, everyone was panicked about what robots were going to do,\u201d<br \/>\n                     Burch told an audience at a spring AI panel hosted by Fort Worth Report. \u201cI spent a large part of my career explaining: I don\u2019t want to take your job. I<br \/>\n                     want to give you a better job. And here we are again with AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TCU\u2019s response is AI\u00b2, the university\u2019s new artificial intelligence supercomputing infrastructure, a $10<br \/>\n                     million partnership with Dell and AWS that gives every faculty member and student<br \/>\n                     access to high-performance AI computing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Preparing Students for a Prompting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcu.edu\/news\/2026\/tcus-10-million-ai-investment-takes-center-stage.php\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TCU\u2019s $10 Million AI Investment Takes Center Stage https:\/\/www.tcu.edu\/news\/2026\/tcus-10-million-ai-investment-takes-center-stage.php Publish Date: 2026-05-26 23:04:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.tcu.eduhttps:\/\/www.tcu.edu\/news\/2026\/_images\/FWRAIPanel-news-lg.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256368,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256366\/revisions\/256368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}