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AI Plus Symposium Examines Tech's Impact on Education
UAlbany hosted a national gathering of academics, educators, students and professionals for its inaugural AI Plus Symposium, held March 6-8. The event explored the transformative potential and challenges of artificial intelligence in education.
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CNSE is Making Albany a Hub for Photoresist Innovation
High-performance photoresists — the thin chemical films used to make patterns on silicon wafers with almost impossibly small wavelengths of light — are essential to manufacturing newer, faster and more efficient computer chips, and University at Albany researchers are making New York a global hub for photoresist innovation.
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Study Finds ‘Smartphone-Only’ Internet Access Deepens Digital Inequality
A new study led by researchers at UAlbany examining digital behavior in Taiwan suggests that simply having internet access is no longer enough to ensure digital inclusion — a finding with growing implications for the U.S. as governments, schools and employers continue shifting services online.
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CNSE Innovation Lab Receives $1.5M Federal Boost for Chips R&D
The funding for the Innovation Lab was included in the recent Commerce, Justice, and Science spending bill approved by Congress thanks to the support of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, U.S. Sen Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko. It will be use toward new tools that help researchers measure the characteristics of new nanoscale devices and materials, as well as equipment used for packaging, the process by which the 200mm silicon wafers are turned into individual computer chips.
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The Short Version Returns: In the Fly of the Beholder
With the assistance of a fly-sized movie theater and treadmill, of sorts, Assistant Professor Max Turner and his students track how neurons in the fly brain react to visual stimuli, how that translates to movement and what we can learn from fruit flies in the quest to better understand the human brain and how it's impacted by disease.
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Latest IBM Spyre Accelerators Power New UAlbany AI Research Projects
The seven new projects are funded through the joint UAlbany-IBM Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems and will use a cluster of IBM Spyre Accelerator cards for projects ranging from the search for mutational signatures important to diagnosing cancer to the impact of methane emissions on Earth’s climate.
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The Short Version: What AI can, and can't, tell us about the weather
Kara Sulia of UAlbany's Atmospheric Sciences Research Center talks about how artificial intelligence can help us see weather differently and what she doesn't yet trust it to understand about the complex physical forces driving the atmosphere.
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UAlbany Launches Master’s Program in AI for Business
The University at Albany’s Massry School of Business has launched a new Master of Science (M.S.) in Artificial Intelligence for Business, an innovative program designed to equip the next generation of corporate, technology and government leaders with the tools to harness AI for innovation and organizational growth.