Higher Education

As schools and universities make more use of artificial intelligence-driven tools, some ed-tech developers are seeking input from educators and implementing policies related to ethical use and data privacy.

A former employee of a private liberal-arts college in Oregon has filed a lawsuit alleging negligence regarding a cyber attack in February 2023. The college individually notified those affected more than a year later.

Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere, so we might as well face it with our eyes open. It brings with it an abundance of potential use cases and risks alike, as job displacement is the flip side of efficiency.

Whale Safe North America, created by university researchers, builds on their original Whale Safe tool to look at all slow-speed ship zones in North American waters. It provides a scorecard for shipping companies, ship by ship.

A public university in Las Vegas canceled classes this week after a ransomware attack targeted its student and staff portal for online classes, course materials, campus email, payroll and other systems.

Oregon State University’s inaugural AI Week features several panels on artificial intelligence led by faculty and tech industry leaders. It culminates Friday with the first edition of a yearly forum, and groundbreaking on an innovation complex.

A multimillion-dollar collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and a Japanese university will aim to advance the research and impact of artificial intelligence in Pennsylvania and beyond.

Aiming to establish a strategy for using and teaching artificial intelligence, the Perelman School of Medicine named Marylyn Ritchie the first vice dean of artificial intelligence and computing.

The new ransomware attack threatened the university's cybersecurity defenses last week, resulting in canceled classes and disruptions in employee payroll systems.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the first and so far only university in the world to own a quantum computer, another in a string of milestone events as the college celebrates its bicentennial.

Officials on Friday announced the deployment of the first IBM Quantum System One computer on a university campus, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. It’s aimed at driving quantum research and education programming.

There are six university-led, federally funded projects, and they focus on training specialists and developing defense tools to protect against attacks aimed at hobbling the country’s energy sector.

A public community college in Washington is building a 49,000-square-foot facility for programs in advanced manufacturing and renewable energy, expected to open in fall 2025 and serve 1,200 students.

A partnership between Georgia's university system, its technical college system and Rowen, a life-sciences campus in Gwinnett County, will generate projects and programs focused on emerging technologies and industries.

Institutions like the University of Maryland Global Campus, Grayson College and Western Governors University are using a variety of tech tools to maintain student engagement — a key challenge in online learning.

The university’s new College of Connected Computing will employ new faculty and take a “computing for all” approach, with collaborative education and research in fields like AI and data science.

Sen. Chuck Schumer and NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan attended a ribbon-cutting for the university's new National AI Institute for Exceptional Education this week, highlighting advances in AI and machine learning.

From language-learning tools to deepfakes, the use of AI for translation is coinciding with a drop in enrollment in foreign-language classes. But what we gain in efficiency, we could lose in understanding.