<p>“What about someone like me who’s interested in artificial intelligence?”</p>
<p>I would choose MIT for AI.
See [About</a> CSAIL](<a href=“http://www.csail.mit.edu/about/about.html]About”>http://www.csail.mit.edu/about/about.html)</p>
<p>Patrick Winston, Abelson, Sussman, Berners-Lee, Barbara Liskov, Peter Shor and many others are at [CSAIL</a> Principal Investigators](<a href=“http://www.csail.mit.edu/biographies/PI/biolist.php]CSAIL”>People | MIT CSAIL)</p>
<p>Stanford would a good alternative to MIT.
Perhaps you have heard of John McCarthy …</p>