Return of the alumni featured at events in September

Representatives from four companies – Komatsu, Milwaukee Tool, Rockwell Automation and GE HealthCare – hosted events in September, giving students the chance to meet and ask questions of those who had finished their degrees and were now in the working …

AI can put data centers on an energy diet with smart hardware

Data centers have a large appetite for electricity – and a bad habit of wasting it. Surprisingly, AI – the very thing that data centers power – could also provide the energy diet they need. With electricity demand climbing, Feng …

GPUs, edge computing, and the push for energy-smart AI

Originally designed for video games, graphics processing units (GPUs) now power much of today’s AI – from voice assistants to self-driving cars. Unlike regular computer chips, GPUs have thousands of small cores that handle many simple tasks at once. GPUs …

AI speeds the hunt for better rechargeable batteries

Rechargeable batteries power everything from electric vehicles to laptop computers. They are in-demand, but far from perfect. Improving them means finding the ideal mix of elements from the periodic table, each with unique properties alone and in combination. Like drug …

From pixels to predictions: Students can uncover AI uses in the lab

Cancer research often demands patience – hours of labeling 3D images, tracing tumor boundaries pixel by pixel before the real work can even begin.  In Associate Professor Mahsa Dabagh’s lab, artificial intelligence is reshaping how researchers predict and treat disease. …