This year marks the 40th year of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia. That’s 40 years of groundbreaking innovation, research and development from areas of healthcare, agriculture, computer science, robotics and more.

Believe it or not in 1984, a group of individuals from the Department of Computer Science were drawn to creating technology and innovation that traditionally required human intelligence and that’s how AI found its roots at UGA.

A recent article published by Nature Medicine introduces the world to a recently discovered open-source visual-language foundation model BiomedGPT that has been used for various biomedical applications in the field. As we have witnessed the rise of AI use in various technologies over the past year Dr. Tianming Liu's research team has used this idea and collaborated on using AI techniques in solving tasks within the biomedical field such as radiology interpretation and clinical information summarization.

Dr. Ramviyas Parasuraman has received a new 3-year $1M NIFA grant on Cyber-Physical Systems for the project titled "Collaborative Research: CPS: Medium: AI-driven Cyber-Physical Heterogeneous Systems for Precision Poultry Farming." 

The University of Georgia received a five-year, $10 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to establish a research and development center that will provide national leadership on best practices for using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in schools, strengthening competence in GenAI in middle school science classrooms.

DevDogs is a new student organization on campus dedicated to building a community of UGA's top tech minds and orienting them toward communal good. Their aim is to solve an issue in the UGA/Athens community through a full-stack software project,  bringing students across years, backgrounds, and tech disciplines together under the belief that the best outcomes come from diverse perspectives aligned to common goals.  This year, members of DevDogs have voted to alleviate a major pain point in the class registration process: finding that "perfect" schedule each semester.

Yesterday, SoC@UGA kickstarted its inclusive excellence events for the 2024-2025 academic year by hosting a welcome-back social for Women in Computing.