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AI Summer Short Course for Working Professionals

"Beyond the Prompt: Building Custom Tools with AI" covers the basics of building applications with AI, and is designed to be accessible for all professionals, regardless of coding experience. 

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Two AI Courses Launch in Fall 2026 - Register Today!

CS&E has developed two new courses to ensure that students across the entire university have access to AI training. Registration for CSCI 2521 and CSCI 4821 is now open for fall 2026! 

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Vipin Kumar Elected to UN Panel on AI

The United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence is the first global scientific body dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence and established by the UN General Assembly.

Apr 27 Mon 11:15am

CRAY Colloquium: Self-enhancing video data management in a multimodal database system

Apr 28 Tue 4:00pm

Natural Language Processing Poster Presentations

May 7 Thu 9:00am

2026 CS&E Graduate Student Graduation Event

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GroupLens Research Team Earns Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI26

PhD graduate Mo Houtti served as lead author on a CHI 2026 Best Paper Honorable Mention examining AI‑supported meeting inclusion.
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Joseph Konstan Earns ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

Professor Joseph Konstan has received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award for his contributions to human–computer interaction and recommender systems.
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Two CS&E Faculty Receive Amazon Gift Funds Totaling $300K

Associate Professor Caiwen Ding and Assistant Professor Zirui Liu each received $150K in Amazon gift funding to advance research in efficient AI systems.
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The Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota has come a long way in the past 50 years. We have made tremendous progress and have become one of the most vibrant and interdisciplinary departments within the College of Science and Engineering, the University of Minnesota, and the computer science field at large.

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