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Triptych of photos of the 2024 Wells Prize winners.

Campus & Community

Undergraduates pair research with reporting, science with sign language, and programming with pondering

November 13, 2024

The Wells Prize honorees exemplify the best of the multidisciplinary educational opportunities available at Rochester.

GIF showing an example of deepfakes created with artificial intelligence featuring speaker Donald Trump alongside AI-generated positive and negative reactions from Joe Biden.

Science & Technology

Are video deepfakes powerful enough to influence political discourse?

October 22, 2024

An expert in AI video generation discusses the technology’s rapid advances—and its current limitations.

GIF showing black and red swirling data visualized on the left and blue, green, and yellow visualized data on the right with "AI" in text in the middle.

Science & Technology

How artificial intelligence is powering the fusion revolution

October 16, 2024

At the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester scientists harness AI to bring fusion research into sharper focus.

Overhead view of a vehicle with sensors activated while turning into a crosswalk with people to illustrate the concept of improved autonomous machines.

Science & Technology

How to design autonomous machines that are more reliable and less costly

October 3, 2024

An international team of computer scientists has developed a new method to reduce cost-safety tradeoffs.

Wegmans Hall, a modern four-story brick building with large glass windows, lit from inside, at dusk. A well-maintained lawn with a walkway is in the foreground, and the University of Rochester Library is visible in the background.

From the Magazine

Bit by megabit: 50 years of computer science at URochester

The Department of Computer Science at Rochester marks 50 years of revolutionary progress.

From the Magazine

Doctors, patients, algorithms, and avatars

Clinicians, computer scientists, and ethicists are working across the University to incorporate reliable and ethical AI into medical diagnosis and treatment.

AI-generated image of two Reddit mascots, one red, one blue, arguing about artificial intelligence.

Science & Technology

Who is more polarized about AI—the tech community or the general public?

An analysis of nearly 34,000 comments on Reddit provides new insights about perceptions of AI after ChatGPT’s launch.

Campus & Community

First-year students help NASA study the total solar eclipse

Rochester has one of about 30 teams nationwide taking observations for the Citizen CATE 2024 experiment.

$Various diagnostic tools pointing at an x-ray diffraction image plate with material on it.$

Science & Technology

Machine learning boosts search for new materials

December 19, 2023

Rochester scientists have developed deep-learning models that can sift through the massive amounts of data generated by X-ray diffraction techniques.

Illustration of temporal scaffolding shows three human silhouettes placing scaffolding around a brain that appears to be made of clouds with a city skyline in the background.

Science & Technology

Human brain’s ‘temporal scaffolding’ inspires new AI approaches

October 24, 2023

Applying a recent hypothesis about how the brain operates during sleep could improve the lifelong learning abilities of artificial intelligence.