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Modern society has entered a Fourth Industrial Revolution in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) has catalyzed stunning levels of technological development across virtually all industries. UF’s newest multidisciplinary initiative, the UF AI University Initiative — guided and supported by principal partners like NVIDIA and its co-founder Chris Malachowsky (B.S. UF ECE ’80) — will leverage the exceptional breadth and depth of resources contained within the university’s 16 colleges and serve as a national model for AI research, technological advancement and next-generation workforce training, ranging from K-12 through working professionals.

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  • UF researchers mine lightning data to protect cell towers
    University of Florida postdoctoral researcher Ziqin Ding, Ph.D., and his team are working on a project to protect cell towers and other tall objects from lightning strikes. Using a novel combination of antennas, sensors, and algorithms, Ding's system is able to detect if a particular lightning strike has impacted a given structure or not.  The […]
  • Leading the quantum leap: Meet the UF experts behind the momentum
    To get a good window into what the University of Florida is doing in the quantum space, spend some time with Laura Kim, Ph.D., and Yingying Wu, Ph.D. Both are award-winning assistant professors in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and both are gaining attention for their work in quantum research and education. The post […]
  • America’s next AI accelerator constraint: Heat, power and the end of ‘just add GPUs’
    AI has entered a phase where the limits are no longer set by algorithms or transistor counts but by energy and speed.   For years, the industry relied on a simple strategy: Deploy more Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). That approach is now colliding with physics. Datacenters push megawatts of power, airborne and orbital systems cannot dissipate […]
  • Harley joins forces with University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Tulane & Georgia Tech to accelerate innovation in AI-augmented health systems
    UF researcher Joel Harley, Ph.D., is set to co-direct the Accessible Healthcare through AI-Augmented Decisions (AHeAD) Center as an NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC). The post Harley joins forces with University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Tulane & Georgia Tech to accelerate innovation in AI-augmented health systems appeared first on News from Herbert Wertheim College of […]
  • Security flaws in portable genetic sequencers risk leaking private DNA data
    Researchers from the University of Florida have, for the first time, exposed security risks in portable genetic sequencers used around the world to sequence DNA. The post Security flaws in portable genetic sequencers risk leaking private DNA data appeared first on News from Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.
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