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AI for a Changing World

CS&E researchers are applying AI techniques to combat climate change, improve medical outcomes, and help humans better understand and utilize technology.

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Burt Earns John Tate Award

The Tate Awards serve to recognize and reward high-quality academic advising, calling attention to the contribution academic advising makes to helping students formulate and achieve intellectual, career, and personal goals. 

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Lind Hall Diversity Wall

The third floor of Lind Hall now features the Diversity Wall, which highlights the computer science contributions of marginalized groups throughout history.

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CS&E Sponsors Local Team for 2024 FIRST® Robotics World Championship

Potential Energy is an FTC team composed of Mounds View High School students, and is one of four Minnesota teams advancing to the World Championship. CS&E is pledging $1,000 to help fund the trip.
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CS&E’s Vipin Kumar Serves as Key Partner on Great Lakes Water Innovation Engine

Kumar’s group will bring the power of machine learning to optimize different steps involved in the treatment of waste water while recovering nutrients in an energy efficient manner.
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CSpotlight: Using Machine Learning to Understand Medical Data

Hemanth Kumar Tirupati talks about his work in developing machine learning to understand medical data

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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.

Watch and listen to stories of how the department started, the years of growth, and where we are headed in the future.