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

https://www.nsf.gov/news/statement-nsf-chief-staff-brian-stone-performing-duties-nsf?sf227755246=1

https://www.uri.edu/news/2025/07/rhode-island-legislators-approve-crucial-appropriation-for-unique-weather-related-tools-at-uri/

The Center for Computational Research (CCR) is now the Institute for AI & Computational Research (IACR) – uniting CCR, ITS Research Computing, and the URI AI Lab under one banner. The Institute designation better recognizes the Center’s university-wide impact and close external partnerships with regional research universities.