I’m really happy to report that over FY ’25, ~70 submitted proposals included the CCR as an affiliated Center/Institute and historically we have averaged a ~50% acceptance rate. Thank YOU for your strong support. Today, we are continuing one of our key programs that invests these indirect cost return funds back into the URI computational […]

The full schedule for a Fall semester AI/ML seminar series is developing! Please find the details here: https://web.uri.edu/iacr/seminars/ The first seminar this semester is by Scott Field from UMass Dartmouth on “Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Modeling Orbital Dynamics in Binary Black Hole Systems“. Hope to see you there!

Our own computational researchers Deborah Ferguson, Derek Davis and Rob Coyne are credited in LIGO’s 10th anniversary of the first detection media blitz! https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ten-years-later-ligo-is-a-black-hole-hunting-machineand even the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/science/gravitational-waves-ligo-black-holes.htmlAnd here as well .. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ringing-black-hole-test-hawking-kerr Congratulations folks! Wow!!

The details of our Fall ’25 semester workshops appear below. These are open to faculty, staff, and students and are totally free. https://docs.unity.uri.edu/news/2025/08/uri-fall-25-workshops/They also appear on the URI events calendar (and subscribe): https://events.uri.edu/group/ai We have some relatively new workshop offerings on AI Tools and Bioinformatics. We also have a new workshop on MPI parallel computing […]

We are happy to share the wide variety of completed student projects in the AI Lab over Summer ’25: https://web.uri.edu/iacr/ai-lab-projects-summer-25/

We have just completed a major expansion to the URI portion of Unity. This was funded via a federal grant that we were fortunate enough to receive. Here are the details of the hardware expansion: With this expansion, we have added 1,600+ CPU cores — this could not have come at a better time since we have […]

https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-nvidia-partnership-enables-ai2-develop-fully-open-ai

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Hendawi!https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/09/open-ai-chat-gpt5-energy-use If you’re curious about the carbon cost of AI or passionate about sustainable tech, give the published paper a read and share your thoughts!

New funding opportunity from NSF https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pcl-test-bed-test-bed-toward-network-programmable-cloud-laboratories/nsf25-541/solicitation

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