The Ivy League university is using a virtual assistant built on natural-language processing to field IT service requests from students and faculty during the pandemic.

Medical center at Rush University takes on more advanced research projects, and lowers costs to IT operations by adopting a scalable cloud platform.

The new tool will give students feedback on writing and help faculty identify struggling students.

AI and ML are being used by adversaries to improve their attacks, but institutions can leverage the same tools to keep their networks safe.

Chatbots are helping universities better understand the needs of their students and proactively guide them toward support, educational technology leaders said.

AI is growing in importance across a multitude of fields and universities must take note, University of Florida leaders said during an online event.

Researchers, who said their tool has a 64% accuracy rate, are learning which factors are most predictive of the virus' spread.

From optimizing transportation to applications in fighting COVID-19, the new institute includes a national laboratory hoped to encourage interdisciplinary research.

The supercomputer, slated to be completed in 2021, is to prepare university students for jobs in AI, while also providing access to K-12 programs and Black and Hispanic colleges nationally.