BU to Help Massachusetts Expand Access to Artificial Intelligence Computing
Boston University will play a key role in the new Massachusetts AI Hub, announced Thursday by Governor Maura Healey. This initiative, supported by the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University and the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, will drive cutting-edge AI collaboration across government, academia, and business.
"[Massachusetts] has a huge leg up—namely, its academic institutions which are poised to leverage, and even contribute to, the development of AI," —Azer Bestavros
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