Author Archives: News Staff
From player recruitment and athlete training to fan marketing and amateur gambling, managers of the most successful franchises and those who follow their teams have increasingly come to rely on data to make decisions about our favorite sports. An interdisciplinary group of University of Michigan faculty from the School of Kinesiology and the School of Information have come… Read More »
Hosted by the University of Michigan’s Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TeachTech), Enriching Scholarship is a free, multi-day event held annually the first full week of May. Taking advantage of the remote nature of our collective work, this year, instructors from six institutions, including Miami University, Michigan State University, and the University of Minnesota will present on the ways their teaching… Read More »
The Continuum program, launched in Fall 2020, offers continuing online education for everyone from high schoolers to engineers already established in their careers taught by faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Michigan. Courses range from introductory classes designed for high school students to specialized classes for those already established in their careers to keep up-to-date… Read More »
The Michigan IT Steerage Committee is happy to announce a new, high-end desktop workstation for use in both the academic and medical center environments across the university. Introducing the Future Object-Oriented Laptop, a brand-new technology designed to be more “green”—sustainable, biodegradable, and using fewer heavy metals and less electricity to create and to operate—than contemporary workstations. Included in… Read More »
The program is hoping to address a major need for qualified AI systems developers. Artificial intelligence is so rapidly transforming a huge array of industries that companies are facing challenges filling positions requiring advanced knowledge of AI systems. One of the reasons for the shortage of workers may simply be a shortage of AI graduate programs. While many… Read More »
The facility will accelerate future of advanced, more equitable robotics and mobility. As robots and autonomous systems are poised to become part of our everyday lives, the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Co. are opening a one-of-a-kind facility where they’ll develop robots and roboticists that help make lives better, keep people safer and build a more equitable… Read More »
MORPHEUS technology from the University of Michigan emerged unscathed from a DARPA virtual hackathon. An “unhackable” computer chip lived up to its name in its first bug bounty competition, foiling over 500 cybersecurity researchers who were offered tens of thousands of dollars to analyze it and three other secure processor technologies for vulnerabilities. MORPHEUS, developed by computer science… Read More »
This free virtual event will feature speakers from all over the country sharing their knowledge and insight around XR.
By putting a twist on new “2D” semiconductors, researchers have demonstrated their potential for using single photons to transmit information.
On Wednesday, March 3, Health Information Technology & Services will begin installing Microsoft’s Edge Chromium web browser on CoreImage Windows computers. Internet Explorer (IE) will continue as a standard option, and Google Chrome will still be available. Eventually, IE will be going away in favor of Edge Chromium. HITS strongly recommends that Michigan Medicine users make the switch to Microsoft… Read More »
Over 200 student instructors and teaching assistants who teach classes in computer science and computer engineering are being trained in inclusive teaching.
The Academic IT Core will house a specialized set of IT and data services that are easily accessible, available on demand, and for a recharge rate.
DARPA pitted 500+ hackers against this computer chip. The chip won.
Technology-packed autonomous vehicles will create a new frontier for hackers. A UM-Dearborn cybersecurity expert explains how we might protect them.
QDR is available via the U-M Library’s licensed institutional membership.
App to provide quarantine and isolation information, usability improvements.
Hosted by U-M’s Teaching and Technology Collaborative, Enriching Scholarship focuses on the effective integration of technology and pedagogy.
What are privacy officers talking about when they talk about privacy? And why is it important?
Advanced GIS students from U-M Dearborn are working to map and increase Dearborn’s tree canopy, understand flood hazards, and streamline multimodal route planning.
U-M’s Economic Growth Institute will use a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to boost cybersecurity know-how among small manufacturers in southeastern Michigan.