The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are joining C3.ai, Microsoft Corporation, and research institutions across the country as part of the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute (C3.ai DTI). The announcement of this institute was made this morning in The New York Times.
This new institute, a multi-disciplinary effort focused on artificial intelligence and advanced computing, will initially accept proposals related to the abatement of COVID-19, and mitigating risks from future pandemics using AI.