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FAU Tech Runway® Announces 14th Venture Class
October 16, 2024
FAU Tech Runway® recently accepted 17 companies to participate in the 14th cohort of its Venture Program. The Venture Program provides the most promising startups and talented entrepreneurs in South Florida with resources...
Feet First: AI Reveals How Infants Connect with Their World
October 16, 2024
Recent advances in computing and artificial intelligence, along with insights into infant learning, suggest that machine and deep learning techniques can help us study how infants transition from random exploratory movements...
FAU Awarded $10M to Train People with Disabilities for High Tech Jobs
October 16, 2024
Florida Atlantic University’s College of Education and the College of Engineering and Computer Science have received a $9,961,460 grant from the United States Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and...
FAU Survey: Port Everglades Firms Signal Optimistic Economic Growth
September 16, 2024
The PEESI surveys members of the Port Everglades Association for their expected business outlook for the next three and 12 months, hiring plans, use of artificial intelligence, as well as the Blue Economy to assess economic...
FAU Engineering Professor Achieves Highly Cited Google Scholar Ranking
September 16, 2024
Florida Atlantic University’s Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Ph.D., the Motorola Endowed Chair Professor and director of the Data Mining and Machine Learning Lab in the College of Engineering and Computer Science , recently achieved...
$1.8M NIH Grant to FAU Engineering Will Fuel Decoding Human Evolution
September 16, 2024
Natural selection is an important evolutionary force that enables humans to adapt to new environments and fight disease-causing pathogens. However, the unique footprints of natural selection in our genome can be buried beneath...
FAU Engineering to Lead $1.3M Collaborative Conservation Project
September 16, 2024
The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation have announced a $1.3 million collaborative grant to the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University...
Balancing Act: Wearable Sensors and AI Transform Balance Assessment
June 26, 2024
Balance can be impacted by various factors, including diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, acute and chronic injuries to the nervous system, and the natural aging process. Accurately assessing balance in patients is important...
‘Fit2Drive’ Transforms Assessing Older Drivers with Cognitive Decline
June 24, 2024
As the world’s population ages, so does the proportion of older drivers on the road. Safe driving requires adequate memory, perceptual and motor skills, and executive function abilities. Although individuals with severe...
FAU CA-AI Research Highlighted in ‘Nature Reviews’
June 20, 2024
Florida Atlantic Center for Connected Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (CA-AI.aihuanjia.com) researchers “cracked the code” on interference when machines need to talk with each other – and people. Electromagnetic waves...