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Sophomores converged on West Virginia University Institute of Technology college campuses for the 31st annual Health Sciences & Technology Academy camp, designed to prepare them for careers in tech and other fields. -
Artificial intelligence places whole term papers and complex mathematical solutions within the grasp of today’s students. Rather than simply banning it, educators must train themselves and provide what it cannot.
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Citing redundancies in the federal government, the Trump administration's new workforce development partnership shifts oversight of adult education and career training programs to the Department of Labor.
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The Center for Equitable Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems (CEAMLS) launched in 2022 to address problems that underlie existing AI systems, and create new technologies that avoid introducing bias.
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With new access to endpoint security and anti-malware tools from the cybersecurity company Sophos, Boise State's Cyberdome program is offering enterprise-level cybersecurity services led by students to rural agencies with limited resources.
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An apprenticeship program at Velocity Vehicle Group in the Los Angeles metro area is training workers to service heavy-duty electric vehicles. The training is partnered with similar educational opportunities at Rio Hondo College.
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State Sen. Reginald Thomas sponsored a bill that would assign the Kentucky Department of Education to set guidelines for AI use in schools, monitor its impact, and train teachers, administrators and school board members.
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Engineering students in Boston built a small, remote-controlled, robotic vessel with an underwater camera that can identify the invasive weed hydrilla, plot its location and relay coordinates to state scientists.
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A public community college in Alabama is spending $30 million to double the size of its Advanced Technology Center to support aerospace, welding and manual machining programs.
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The American Council on Education and 17 other education groups pressed the Federal Communications Commission to ensure Internet service providers can't throttle connection speeds or prices for particular content.
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University researchers say AI has the potential to help find useful new substances, from better batteries to powerful drugs, if it can enable autonomous labs to perform experiments exponentially faster than humans.
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First and second graders at Western Primary School in Indiana are piloting virtual reality games created by an assistant professor of computer science and informatics at Indiana University Kokomo.
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The University of Texas at San Antonio will use a grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the National DigiFoundry, a consortium that could enhance management of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies.
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The state government and industry leaders are working with Princeton to launch a research center that will examine how to use artificial intelligence in an ethical manner and train state employees in the technology.
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The Oklahoma State University Polytech initiative will increase STEM programming across the OSU system, starting with the expansion of OSUIT in Tulsa, and solicit guidance on academic programming from industry leaders.
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A junior at Indiana University built an app that checks in with users daily and learns more about them as they talk to it, referring them to therapists if needed. He sold the app to a Silicon Valley tech firm.
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Artificial intelligence is having an impact across disciplines and campuses in Bay Area, where both students and professors are applying the technology and learning about its implications for their fields.
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Amid the pace and constancy of technological change, it’s easy to overlook how transformational the digital era has been — and how the ability to pause, rewind, record, search and share has revolutionized education.
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As part of a developing innovation district intended to train future generations for technology jobs, ASU is investing heavily in educational and research facilities that will be open to tech industry partners.
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In 2024, California State University, Sacramento will open The National Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Education to train current and future teachers to use the technology ethically and effectively.
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WVU is putting a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education toward a facility where students can practice virtually testing cybersecurity concepts and get hands-on experience with recent threats.
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