UB launches artificial intelligence institute - University at Buffalo

The University at Buffalo announced today that it is launching a multidisciplinary artificial intelligence institute -- the University at Buffalo Artificial Intelligence Institute (UBuffalo.AI). UBuffalo.AI will explore how to combine machines' superior ability to ingest, connect and recall information with concepts that humans excel at, such as reasoning, judgement and strategizing, to develop dynamic human-machine partnerships. To lead UBuffalo.AI, the university recruited David Doermann, PhD, from the University of Maryland (UMD) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Doermann built his career at UMD developing technologies for document understanding and computer vision for the defense and intelligence communities. Human language is considered one of the grand challenges of AI, and the fundamental and applied research performed in his UMD laboratory has provided a critical foundation for addressing the next wave of AI challenges.