$10 million for Berkeley RISELab's AI research

The National Science Foundation today announced that UC Berkeley's RISELab has been awarded an Expeditions in Computing award, providing $10 million in funding over five years to enable game-changing advances in real-time decision making technologies. The award was one of three announced today for research teams pursuing large-scale, far-reaching and potentially transformative research in computer and information science and engineering. RISELab's award will be used to develop technology for an era in which artificial intelligence systems will make decisions that will play an increasingly central role in people's lives in areas such as healthcare, transportation and business. For example, the researchers say that these systems will revolutionize healthcare through early identification of patients at risk, cell-level diagnosis and treatment using nanoprobes, and robotic surgery. These systems could also reduce traffic congestion and help eliminate fatalities by powering autonomous vehicles and unmanned drones, or make businesses safer by detecting and defending in real-time against financial fraud and internet attacks.