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Erickson Discovery Grant showcases partnership between Education, IST

4/19/18

Seth Wilcox, a secondary education major with a passion for computer programming, was recently awarded a 2018 Erickson Discovery Grant. The grant will allow him to partner with a researcher in the College of Information Sciences and Technology to explore how artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing can be used to extract keyphrases from scientific publications.

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Love Actually: Computer model may decode Facebook emoticons

2/6/18

Facebook's additional emoticons — love, haha, sad, angry and wow — are making it more complex for marketers and social media users to know exactly how people are reacting to their posts. A new computer model uses an AI technique called, "supervised learning," to better understand reactions.

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Nittany AI Challenge offers $100,000 in funding to innovators

1/19/18

Penn State students, faculty and staff are invited to compete for $100,000 in funding during the Nittany AI Challenge. The challenge, sponsored by the Penn State EdTech Network, will give participating teams the opportunity to explore artificial intelligence in higher education to improve the student experience at Penn State, solve real-world problems at the University, and generate startup ideas. The deadline for idea submissions is Jan. 29.

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Can computers be creative?

11/13/17

Researchers from Penn State have received $900,000 to teach computers how to generate original design ideas and then determine if those ideas are technically feasible which, in terms of national security, would give the United States a considerable competitive advantage in our technology industries.

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Tucker serves on team organizing artificial intelligence event in the U.K.

10/24/17

Conrad Tucker, associate professor of engineering design and industrial engineering and an affiliate faculty member in computer science and engineering, is currently serving on the planning team organizing "2050|Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Conflict," to be held Nov. 8 in the United Kingdom.

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New mobile app diagnoses crop diseases in the field and alerts rural farmers

9/29/17

Researchers who developed a new mobile application that uses artificial intelligence to accurately diagnose crop diseases in the field have won a $100,000 award to help expand their project to help millions of small-scale farmers across Africa. David Hughes, associate professor of entomology and biology, Penn State, leads the project with James Legg, of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.

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Ethicist Walter Sinnott-Armstrong to discuss morality of artificial intelligence

9/26/17

Students, faculty, staff, and members of the community are encouraged to join a public discussion, "Are Machines Taking Over? How to Build Moral Artificial Intelligence," at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 5 in Foster Auditorium. Guest lecturer Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Penn State experts will tackle questions of morality around the use of computers in decision-making, about the likelihood of artificial intelligence to act in destructive ways, and how we might be able to build morality into machines.

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Team nets funding for Virtual Advisor prototype through Nittany Watson Challenge

5/8/17

A team of four Penn State students and faculty were selected to enter Phase I of the $100,000 Nittany Watson Challenge and were granted $5,000 to create a working prototype of their Virtual Advisor idea. A panel of judges awarded the seed money to create a working prototype using IBM Watson, a technology platform focused on data analysis, natural language processing, and machine learning.

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Penn State Smeal’s Jordan authors book on robots

10/26/16

“Robots,” a newly released book by John Jordan, Penn State Smeal College of Business Clinical Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, explores the many facets of robots, from prehistory, to treatment in popular media, to their place in technology and society.

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Music professor developing AI-driven virtual classroom

8/9/16

A Penn State faculty member is researching how artificial intelligence and virtual reality can be used as a training tool for pre-service student teachers. This includes developing a virtual classroom featuring AI-driven "students" that enable future teachers to practice student engagement techniques, allowing them to begin to hone these skills and be better prepared for their first foray into a real classroom.

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