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AI Summer Short Course for Working Professionals

"Beyond the Prompt: Building Custom Tools with AI" covers the basics of building applications with AI, and is designed to be accessible for all professionals, regardless of coding experience. 

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Two AI Courses Launch in Fall 2026 - Register Today!

CS&E has developed two new courses to ensure that students across the entire university have access to AI training. Registration for CSCI 2521 and CSCI 4821 is now open for fall 2026! 

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Vipin Kumar Elected to UN Panel on AI

The United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence is the first global scientific body dedicated entirely to artificial intelligence and established by the UN General Assembly.

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Two CS&E Faculty Receive Amazon Gift Funds Totaling $300K

Associate Professor Caiwen Ding and Assistant Professor Zirui Liu each received $150K in Amazon gift funding to advance research in efficient AI systems.
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Maryam Kameli proposes VR technique to limit cybersickness and improve spatial awareness

PhD student Maryam Kameli’s Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) technique uses a black and white, sketch style design while VR users are moving between places in the virtual environment.
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CSpotlight: Building business solutions through AI

Undergraduate student Darsh Garg shares how the University of Minnesota's proximity to deep tech research and Fortune 500 industry fuels his work in autonomous systems, multi‑agent AI, and

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The Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota has come a long way in the past 50 years. We have made tremendous progress and have become one of the most vibrant and interdisciplinary departments within the College of Science and Engineering, the University of Minnesota, and the computer science field at large.

Watch and listen to stories of how the department started, the years of growth, and where we are headed in the future.