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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. 

Lind Hall Diversity Wall

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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CSpotlight: Learning How to Prevent Cancer

Raphael Mwangi talking about his cancer research.
Female researchers gather at the first ever SpatialW networking event in 2022

CS&E’s Yao-Yi Chiang and Jina Kim Named to First DEI Committee for ACM SIGSPATIAL

After the success of the networking events in 2022 and 2023, John Krumm, the president of SIGSPATIAL, decided to increase DEI efforts moving forward and appointed Chiang as the first chair of this
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CSpotlight: Learning the Power of Artificial Intelligence

John Modl talks about his research experience at the University of Minnesota

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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.