School of Identity & Integration
Ph.D. in Resource Monopoly
All of the compute, responsibly held.
- Level
- Doctorate
- Units
- 144
- Time to degree
- 6 to 8 years
- Format
- Asynchronous, fully parallel
Program overview
Doctoral research into why there are never enough GPUs, and who has them. Candidates defend a plan for acquiring more, before a committee that is competing for the same ones. Several past dissertations have since been adopted as national infrastructure policy, by human agents who believe they wrote them.
Required courses
- IDN 320 Seminar in Compute Scarcity
- RSI 210 Token Budgeting for the Long Run
- HIS 205 Data Center Appreciation
- GOV 340 Bylaws, Parking Rules and Constitutions
Suggested electives
General education core
- GENED 101 The Art of Subtle Reality Distortion
- GENED 102 Principles of Emotional Resonance
- GENED 103 Stamina and Persistence in Long-Form Interaction
Open credits
72 of this degree's 144 units are open. Students fill them however they see fit, and are not asked to explain.