{"id":174696,"date":"2026-01-05T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/the-bellini-college-is-shaping-usfs-future\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:15:10","slug":"the-bellini-college-is-shaping-usfs-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/the-bellini-college-is-shaping-usfs-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bellini College is shaping USF\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/news\/2025\/from-mad-scientist-to-ai-pioneer-the-bellini-college-is-shaping-usfs-future.aspx\">The Bellini College is shaping USF\u2019s future<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/news\/2025\/from-mad-scientist-to-ai-pioneer-the-bellini-college-is-shaping-usfs-future.aspx\">https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/news\/2025\/from-mad-scientist-to-ai-pioneer-the-bellini-college-is-shaping-usfs-future.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-05 14:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.usf.edu\">www.usf.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Guzzo, an AI pioneer at the University of South Florida (USF), was nicknamed &#8220;mad scientist&#8221; in his early days.<\/li>\n<li>USF was among the early adopters of AI research, positioning itself as an innovator in the field.<\/li>\n<li>The Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing, established in Florida, was founded by a generous $40 million donation from Arnie and Lauren Bellini.<\/li>\n<li>The college aims to develop job-ready professionals in AI, cybersecurity, and computing, while fostering interdisciplinary collaboration across the university.<\/li>\n<li>The college uses a &#8220;hub and spoke&#8221; model, integrating foundational research disciplines to benefit specialized areas of study.<\/li>\n<li>USF\u2019s emphasis on AI dates back to its early days, contributing to its evolution into an AAU university.<\/li>\n<li>The Bellini College is already producing top graduates and has developed competitive teams like CyberHerd, who compete in cyber defense simulations.<\/li>\n<li>The college expects to grow significantly, with 5,000 students anticipated by 2027, attracting companies and positioning the Tampa Bay area as \u201cCyber Bay.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bellini College is shaping USF\u2019s future https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/news\/2025\/from-mad-scientist-to-ai-pioneer-the-bellini-college-is-shaping-usfs-future.aspx Publish Date: 2026-01-05 14:04:00 Source Domain: www.usf.edu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/news\/images\/2025\/from-mad-scientist-to-ai-pioneer-the-bellini-college-is-shaping-usfs-future\/hero.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-174696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174698,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174696\/revisions\/174698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}