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CTG UAlbany, CDTA Explore AI Tools for Bus Shelter Maintenance
Researchers and students at CTG UAlbany are helping CDTA address that challenge using mobile sensors and artificial intelligence. Through an ongoing partnership, CTG UAlbany has adapted its Community Asset Tracker platform to identify maintenance conditions at bus shelters using AI-enabled camera sensors mounted on CDTA buses.
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President Rodríguez Lauds Federal Quantum Computing Investments
"This $1.3 billion federal investment in quantum computing innovation in the Capital Region once again proves what we’ve known for three decades: The road to the most powerful technologies of the future passes through Albany," Rodríguez said.
Members of CurrentView, led by CNSE's Omid Rajabi Shishvan, celebrate after winning top prize during the spring RISE Demo Day competition. (Photo by University Photo Service)
RISE Program Helps UAlbany Innovators Turn Ideas Into Impact
In just over a year, four groups of UAlbany researchers, students and Capital Region startups have moved through the Research & Innovators Startup Exchange (RISE), exploring what it takes to bring ideas beyond the lab and into the marketplace.
Students Weiming Lan and Micah Wang stand with professor Rui Li at the site of the Civil War memorial at Albany Rural Cemetary in Menands, N.Y.
Connecting Visitors with History at Albany Rural Cemetery
At Albany Rural Cemetery, where nearly two centuries of history stretch across 467 acres, two University at Albany students are putting interdisciplinary training into practice — developing mapping tools that help visitors navigate the past.
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The Short Version: AI, photography and your lyin' eyes
The spring semester season finale of The Short Version podcasts features Danny Goodwin, professor and chair of the Department of Art and Art History, exploring our foolhardy pursuit of truth from images "that can only lie" — and why it's wrong to blame photography for the ways humans deceive themselves with technology.
The cover of the first issue of Hallucinations magazine. The magazine name runs along the top of the page. The AI Plus logo and the words "Critical conversations about artificial intelligence" run along the bottom. In the center is an abstract art piece that looks like orange and purple waves.
Hallucinations Magazine, Issue 1: Critical Conversations about Artificial Intelligence
Whether you are a researcher training the next generation of large language models, an artist deconstructing how a surveillance algorithm “sees” or a skeptic questioning the roadmap to General Intelligence, this space is for you. Read the inaugural issue of the AI Plus Institute's Hallucinations magazine today.
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Sabotage by design: Protecting critical infrastructure from hidden hardware threats
UAlbany researchers are pioneering new ways to find and neutralize hardware trojans, the insidiously small security threats that may already be embedded in critical infrastructure like the electric grid.
A phone is open on a brown surface with a chatbot conversation on the screen.
Researchers Examine How AI Chatbots Are Shaping Government Operations
Published in Public Performance & Management Review, the study, “Uncovering the Results of AI Chatbot Use in the Public Sector: Evidence from U.S. State Governments,” is co-authored by UAlbany researchers Tzuhao Chen and Mila Gasco-Hernandez. It draws on interviews with officials from 22 state agencies, offering an empirical look at how chatbot technology is influencing government operations and interactions with the public.