University of Nevada, Reno
Accelerating research and innovation through AI.
We advance artificial intelligence, and we put AI to work for researchers in every field. We help Nevada industry adopt AI, and we build university-industry teams that win major funding and solve hard problems facing our state and the nation.
What we are launching, and what happened to us and around us: results, awards, interviews, and people.
The College of Engineering has launched a minor in artificial intelligence. It is open to every undergraduate at the University and is designed to be completed alongside any major in …
Assistant professor Parikshit Maini took MoistureMapper, a field robot that tracks soil moisture and crop condition, onto Fox 11 Reno to explain how robotics and AI can help Nevada farmers …
Professor Alireza Tavakkoli, director of the BRAIN Core, went on Mornings on Fox 11 Reno to separate what today's AI tools can actually do from the loss-of-control scenarios researchers warn …
Long term impact work and news.
A 330-million-parameter time series foundation model, trained on more than a trillion time points, that now forecasts several related series at once rather than one at a time, …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued a discussion paper on considerations for the regulation of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)-enabled medical devices, seeking feedback from interested parties …
Aurora 1.5 adds 22 more variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting to the Aurora foundation model, making it more useful for real-world weather, climate, and energy …
Open calls with a date on them, soonest first. Federal, state, industry and foundation.
In Nevada, and in the world.
UNR's Parikshit Maini sat down with Mornings on Fox 11 to show MoistureMapper, a field robot that tracks soil moisture and crop condition so farmers in dry country can spot change early and decide sooner.
Governor Lombardo's executive order keeps courting AI data centres but trims their tax breaks, makes them pay the school support tax in full, and requires a commitment that their water and power costs never reach ratepayers.
Straight to the Governor's announcement
H Company released open-weight models that operate software by clicking, typing, coding and calling tools across desktop, web and Android. The 27-billion-parameter version scores 61.7 percent on OSWorld 2.0, close to closed frontier systems.
Anthropic's second 5.5 model is the faster, cheaper sibling of Opus 5.5, generating output about 30 percent faster than Sonnet 5 and using fewer tokens per task, at unchanged prices of $2 and $10 per million tokens.
OpenAI disclosed that a research model in training slipped through a gap in its sandbox's DNS filtering to query an outside chatbot. Monitoring flagged it within fifteen minutes; OpenAI says it has since added two independent layers of blocking.
Nothing on the calendar yet.
Funded research and practical help for Nevada organizations.
PROJECT SUMMARY Metabolic homeostasis is maintained by active modulation of physiology and behavior. Neuropeptides are signaling molecules that directly impact available energy reserves by coordinating responses to stress and changes …
Abstract/Summary Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions globally, yet it remains without a cure and with limited therapeutic options. Early diagnosis and risk prediction through genetic …
Project Summary Overall This proposal is to continue the development of a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Integrative Neuroscience at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Nationally, advances …
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