Tag: AI

• $20 Million Grant to Provide Commercial Cloud Resources to National Research Community

  

  by Cynthia Dillon, SDSC Communications The University of Washington will partner on a $20 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for the acquisition and deployment of commercial cloud resources to support approximately 500 research projects annually across the nation over the next five years. CloudBank 2: Accelerating Science and Engineering Research in the…

• NAIRR: Pilot Exploration

  

  Partner: Rob Fatland SSEC Engineer: Niki Burggraf Research Goals and Domain The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) is a National Science Foundation funded effort aiming to connect U.S. researchers to the computational, data, software, model and training resources they need to participate in AI research. As a member of the CloudBank team, the UW…

• Announcing 2023 Seed Grants for AI Projects

  

  The eScience Institute has partnered with the UW Office of Research, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, the Information School, and the NSF Institute for Foundations of Data Science (IFDS) to award seed grants to help initiate and support novel collaborations on four projects: Revealing the Hidden Lives of Cryptic Carnivores…

• 2022-23 “End of Year” Message from eScience Director Andy Connolly

  

  We are ending another academic year at the eScience Institute, and we are celebrating themes that have been central to our mission for many years. In September 2022, we held the first “Learning and Doing Data for Good” conference, where researchers and participants from around the country came together to discuss how data can help…

• Wet AI: Collaborative Neurobiology

  

  Partners: David Haussler, Matt Elliot, David Parks, and Lon Blauvelt SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core and Don Setiawan Research Goals and Domain Cerebral organoids are synthetic tissues derived from induced or natural stem cells within a laboratory setting. Once they are differentiated, these structures offer an avenue for researchers and students to probe and stimulate neural…

• Data Science for Social Good fellows take AI prize

  

  By Robin Brooks Four of the 2017 eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) fellows took first place in the Seattle Global AI Hackathon, “the world’s first ever AI hackathon series”. Brett Bejcek, Mayuree Binjolkar, Orysya Stus, and Michael Vlah met during the DSSG program and designed a fake news detector called Breaking News based on…