College-wide featured stories
Supercomputer fuels research to limit carbon emissions
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Take a moment to picture a chemist’s research tools, and you might imagine microscopes, beakers and Bunsen burners. But when it comes to theoretical and computational chemistry, researchers prefer a different instrument: the supercomputer.
Watson kicks off cognitive computing research
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This fall, University of Minnesota students with expertise in computer science and food security will explore new ways to curb the effects of avian flu outbreaks using a cutting-edge cognitive computing system.
Featured Fellow: Roboticist Volkan Isler
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The Robotic Sensor Networks Lab is building robotic systems and deploying them in environmental applications.
MSI Beta experiments with new technologies
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A key tenant of design thinking is rapid prototyping — the idea that testing a new idea early and often in an environment that supports and learns from failure is crucial to driving innovation forward.
Precision farming targets major threat to soybean crops
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Over the last 15 years, farmers across the U.S. have faced a daunting challenge. The soybean aphid, an invasive species first reported in the U.S. in 2000, has flourished on farms.
A new spin on computer technology
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Spintronic computers, featuring zero boot-up time, ultra-low energy use and high processing speeds, aren’t available to consumers yet. But the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces, and Novel Architectures (C-SPIN) has been guiding a national “dream team” of researchers since 2013 to accelerate progress toward spintronic computing.
Foundation will expand researcher’s spatial data software
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The University of Minnesota continues to be a leader in spatial data research through research by Mohamed Mokbel, an associate professor of computer science and engineering with the U’s College of Science and Engineering, who has created a platform that can handle giant sets of spatial data more quickly and gracefully than anything that came before it.
Mapping the world: Stergios Roumeliotis
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Stergios Roumeliotis, professor of computer science and engineering, received a $3.5 million NSF grant as part of the agency’s National Robotics Initiative to research “collaborative robotics,” which aims to create a new generation of interactive humanoid robots that will assist people with a variety of tasks, such as lifting and carrying heavy objects.
I-35W 'smart' bridge stands the tests of time
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Though still basking in the gleam of youth upon turning 5 in September, the new I-35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge is, like most of us, coping with a little shrinkage and creep.
University students become entrepreneurs through MIN-Corps’ STARTUP
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It was clear early on that Shawn Wilhelm’s design for a new, highly efficient hydraulic pump had a lot of market potential.