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Under the Hood: The Mathematics of AI
Rebecca Willett, the Data Science Institute's Faculty Director of AI, gave a public lecture at the National Museum of Mathematics highlighting core ideas underlying AI. Earlier this month, Rebecca Willett, the Data Science Institute’s Faculty Director of AI, gave a...
More Control, Less Connection: How User Control Affects Robot Social Agency
Ph.D. Candidate Alex Wuqi Zhang studies whether allowing users to customize robot behavior might reduce how intelligent, autonomous, and agentic AI-powered robots seem to them. The rapid advancement of AI has created more capable robots that are now appearing...
Hands-On Vision: How a Wrist Camera Can Expand the World for All Users
A wrist-mounted camera and tactile feedback system from the Human-Computer Integration Lab redefines sensory substitution, helping users "see" through their hands for real-world object exploration and accessibility. Inside the Human-Computer Integration Lab at the...
Democratizing Digital Graphics: An Undergrad’s Unlikely Path To Putting Agency of 3D-Generation in Users’ Hands
Hyunwoo (Brian) Kim ‘25, a recent grad of UChicago, creates MeshUp to improve user agency and control over 3D-generated graphics. AI has advanced to a point where images can be created with a few simple text commands. What if the same could be done for 3D-generated...
A new study provides insights into cleaning up noise in quantum entanglement
Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Microsoft have shown that it is fundamentally impossible to design a single one-size-fits-all protocol to counteract the...
Computational tool predicts materials for new energy economy
Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Department of Chemistry have developed a new computational tool that predicts which metal-organic frameworks will be most stable for a given need, such as catalyzing reactions to...