New grant program builds upon institute’s 40 years of discovery and innovation

Four university-wide research projects designed to advance interdisciplinary research in artificial intelligence have been awarded seed grants by the University of Georgia’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

When people hold a world information in their electronics, can they find community within them? Eddie Alexander Gomez Schieber explores this question by looking at the power of communities created in the algorithmic world and the positive impact it can have.

As Machine Learning tools become increasingly commonplace, their ubiquity is accompanied by a growing need to use the tools on mobile devices. From the application side, the endless possibilities go well beyond common speech or image recognition. And the growing computational capacity of smartphones creates the necessary room for improved hand-held AI.

This spring, teams from UGA’s School of Computing competed in the South East Region of the annual algorithmic programming contest held by International Competitive Programming Contest (ICPC). ICPC is the oldest and largest programming contest in the world.  The competition was held at UNG Dahlonega, one of the sites for the Southeast region of the competition. The competition lasted five hours and each team was made up of a maximum of three members trying to solve sets of coding problems with varying difficulties. 

This spring, UGA’s School of Computing’s The Hack Pack team placed second in the Southeast at the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) Cyber Game and is advancing to the national invitational this  April.

Throughout six hours of competition, as part of the blue team, the Hack Pack defended critical infrastructure in a high-stakes, intense competition against the opposing red team. The red team launched many attacks across multiple platforms, including: FTP, DNS, ICMP, Web, and Postgres. 

Morgan McGrath, right, meets with Christina Koch, center, a NASA astronaut, during her internship with NASA’s Electrical Test Team.

Prior to her December 2024 graduation, honors computer science student Morgan McGrath interned with NASA on the Electrical Test Team at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.