Rutgers University–New Brunswick leaders have made an initial investment of $10 million to advance the university’s capabilities and expand the scope of its research and scholarship on artificial intelligence and data science, with the expectation of producing the sorts of groundbreaking insights and practical solutions that will mark it as an innovator in the revolutionary technologies. Implementation of the multipronged program, the product of more than a year of strategic planning, will involve establishing a research collaboratory, soliciting ideas for proposals of interdisciplinary research projects through a campuswide call, creating two new AI- and data science-centric student research programs and nurturing new partnerships with governmental agencies and industry leaders.
At the center of this vision will be the Rutgers Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (RAD) Collaboratory, an initiative that will serve as a virtual hub where university researchers and students will converge and lead efforts to make discoveries and devise practical applications. In a collaboratory – the word is a portmanteau of “collaboration” and “laboratory” – researchers work together to explore new ideas and solve problems. To read the full story.