In mid-January, OpenAI released an Economic Blueprint outlining policy proposals to enable American leadership in AI development. Along with guidance on testing frontier models for national security risks and suggestions on how the U.S. can take the lead in establishing international standards for AI regulation, the blueprint also focused on funding. The blueprint points to “an estimated $175 billion sitting in global funds awaiting investment in AI projects,” and notes that China is competing strongly for this funding as well.  Shortly after the OpenAI blueprint was released, President Trump announced the Stargate Project, which aims to invest up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure in the U.S. It is clear […]

Computer scientists have been attempting to harness the power of quantum computing for over two decades. Traditional computers perform calculations sequentially, one at a time. In contrast, quantum computers leverage the unique properties of sub-atomic particles, such as existing in multiple places simultaneously and demonstrating instantaneous connections across vast distances to successfully transfer quantum information between computer chips at unprecedented speeds and accuracy. So far, institutions such as Google, IBM and Microsoft have only been able to achieve simple quantum machines. A new breakthrough development in quantum, led by Professor Winfried Hensinger of Sussex University and highlighted in a recent BBC article, promises to move the needle closer to harnessing […]

Edge artificial intelligence (AI) is the deployment of AI devices at the edge of networks, in other words these devices are collecting and computing data close to the user. An example of this is a self-driving car. Data pertaining to the proximity of other cars, traffic and obstacles are being collected and computed by the car rather than in a cloud computing facility or private data center. These technological capabilities enable organizations to increase automation and improve processes, efficiency and safety. Currently these edge devices are limited by their battery power. A massive amount of the technology’s energy goes towards moving the data between the compute unit (where the data […]

CIFellow, Alexis E. Block began her CIFellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles in September 2021. Block is mentored by Veronica J. Santos, Director of the UCLA Biomechatronics Laboratory, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the school’s Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Faculty Affairs. Prior to beginning her CIFellowship, she received her Dr. sc. from ETH Zurich where she was a part of a joint program called the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems. Block recently won the Otto Hahn Medal from Germany’s Max Planck Society for her dissertation work in human-robot interaction and the development of the “HuggieBot” which you can read about here. […]

Soheil Salehi began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving her PhD from University of Central Florida in May 2020. Soheil is at University of California Davis working with Houman Homayoun, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California Davis.  The remainder of this post is written by Soheil Salehi Current Project My research focus is on applications of AI in secure Internet of Things (IoT) sensing and computing hardware. Currently, I am leading several projects on the topic of AI-enabled security for the IoT supply chain, which takes on a ground-up approach to ensure the reliability, security, and energy efficiency of the IoT hardware. Within this […]

Mona Singh, CCC Council Member and Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University was featured on the Princeton University website for her work in combining biology and computer science to combat cancer. In high school, Singh had been interested in matters of biology and medicine but her passions belonged to math and computer science. Eventually, she joined a biophysics lab, where she applied the computer science skills she’d learned to automate data collection for the lab.  “I think that experience planted the seeds for using computer science in molecular biology,” she said. “I really loved the methods of computer science and thinking about […]