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**Article originally published on K-12 Dive.** The University of Florida and Orange County Public Schools together developed a statewide curriculum on artificial intelligence for high school students. Every day, students are using artificial intelligence on their phones, said Michael Martucci, assistant director of career and technical education at Orange County Public Schools in Florida. Asking […]

**Article originally published on Nature.** Black and Hispanic people face huge hurdles at technology companies and in computer-science education in the United States, with far-reaching consequences for science and all of society. Juan Gilbert felt alone as he pursued a Ph.D. in computer science in the 1990s. It was a familiar sense that had followed […]

As students across the nation return to the classroom this fall, Florida is among the first states to adopt a K-12 artificial intelligence, or AI, education program designed to prepare its youth for the growing global demand for an AI-enabled workforce. Tapping into the expertise of the University of Florida and its AI initiative, the […]

By Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., professor and John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Preeminent Chair in Engineering, and Logan Blue, a Ph.D. student. This story originally appeared in The Conversation. Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer […]

The explosive growth of diversified scientific data has reaped unprecedented advancements in scientific discovery and engineering. Unfortunately, it is difficult to relate data from one scientific problem to another without a unified approach to the mathematics of scientific modeling. A multidisciplinary team of researchers led by engineering faculty at the University of Florida hopes to […]

Bonnie Dorr, Ph.D., joined the faculty as a professor at the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) in Spring 2022. Her research and project management experience includes deep-language understanding and semantics, large-scale multilingual processing, and summarization. She has carried out seminal work in cross-language divergence detection, machine translation, paraphrasing and automatic evaluation […]

This story originally appeared on news.ufl.edu. UF researchers and students hold summer camp for local children to make AI more accessible.   Soccer-bot, stress-bot and fashion-bot are just three examples of conversational apps created by middle schoolers using a unique digital interface developed by University of Florida researchers. AMBY, which stands for AI Made By You, […]

Computing has never been more important to our daily lives than it is today. Videoconferencing has become ubiquitous for almost the entire population and access to technology and virtual worlds have become a necessity for all rather than a privilege reserved for certain populations. However, throughout this rapid evolution in computing, it is increasingly apparent […]

Benjamin Lok, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, was recently inducted as a member into the inaugural class of the IEEE Virtual Reality Academy. Dr. Lok was one of 49 scholars and innovators inducted into this year’s class. “Our work has focused on innovating in the area of […]

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 CISE undergraduate and graduate scholarships. Certificates were presented to the winners at the CISE Awards Ceremony in April. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”15″ gal_title=”2022 CISE Awards Ceremony”]