I'm doing Mechanical Engineering which is really interesting but it covers quite a lot of areas like materials science, machine design, physics and of course mechanics.

Therefore, a new discipline blending computer science, programming, statistics and machine learning should be added to the traditional foundational topics of mathematics and physics.

Sony's motivation is not just philanthropic: for some young gamers, the fact that their machine will do serious science in its spare time is a useful argument to convince reluctant parents.