Honors and Awards NFI, NCSA Win Second Place in AI Competition for Critical Mineral Assessment A team of researchers from NFI, NCSA and CAII were awarded second place for their solution in the Map Feature Extraction challenge, co-sponsored by USGS and DARPA. December 21, 2022
Honors and Awards Kindratenko Receives The George Anner Excellence In Undergraduate Teaching Award CAII Director Volodymyr Kindratenko is honored for his teaching excellence in student-juried selection. August 10, 2022
Profiles SPIN Interns Garner Achievements, Success Over Academic Year NCSA’s SPIN program continues to attract and retain outstanding UIUC undergraduates June 3, 2022
Announcements Meet HOLL-I: NCSA Unveils New Artificial Intelligence Machine NCSA unveils new system, HOLL-I, equipped with Cerebras CS-2 for public and industrial artificial intelligence research and development. May 31, 2022
Science Features New in ’22: Three New Supercomputing Resources and More Our center’s introducing new resources and advancements this year that targets research, academic and industry needs. April 13, 2022
Funding NSF Awards $405,000 to NCSA for Research Experience for Undergraduates Site Program Through NCSA and its Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, the REU program provides specialized hands-on training to students across the nation. December 16, 2021
Announcements Volodymyr Kindratenko Named Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at NCSA Dr. Kindratenko, an NCSA veteran, brings decades of institutional knowledge, teaching, research and computing experience to the director role. October 28, 2021
In the News NCSA AI and Industry Team at 2021 ML4I Forum NCSA’s Seid Koric, Brendan McGinty, and Shirui Luo participated in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Machine Learning for Industry Forum in August. September 21, 2021
Science Features How Do You Train a Supercomputer to Learn? NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation uses COVID-19 chest x-rays to explore best methods. June 8, 2021
Announcements NCSA Groups Sweep Original Undergraduate Research Award Again at EOH 2021 NCSA’s Student Cluster Competition, Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, and Students Pushing INnovation teams win first, second and third place at this year’s Engineering Open House. April 14, 2021
Honors and Awards NCSA Wins Multiple Awards During SC20 NCSA and our partner institutions were honored to take home awards during the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20), spanning from Agriculture to Visualization and many domains in between. November 24, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2020 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards The biannual awards recognize achievements by users of high-performance computing technologies. November 17, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2020 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards 17th annual HPCwire Awards presented to leaders in the global HPC community. November 16, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Wins DOE INCITE Award for Physics-Inspired AI Project An NCSA-led team receives 145,000 node hours on Summit to create AI tools that enable data-driven discovery in multi-messenger astrophysics. November 16, 2020
Funding DOE Awards $2.2M to Project at the Intersection of AI and High-Energy Physics Led by NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation Illinois’ CAII leads a team of experts from UMN, MIT and UC San Diego for DOE-funded FAIR Framework for Physics-Inspired Artificial Intelligence in High Energy Physics project. August 11, 2020
Profiles NCSA Gravity Group Interns Build Strong Foundation for Their Futures Four NCSA Gravity Group interns share bright plans for their futures post graduation. May 21, 2020