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With a $760,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation, investigators at the University of Kansas will develop “intelligent spectrum management frameworks” to enable reliable communication for drones as they become more ubiquitous.

Researchers and faculty members at the University of Kansas’ Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science recently received redesignation as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R) by the National Security Agency.

A group of KU students travelled to New York Aug. 13-18 to participate in the ETHGlobal Hackathon. ETHGlobal is a national industry hackathon that allows students and members of industry to experiment with cutting edge web3 technologies, an umbrella term for technologies, like blockchain, that decentralize data ownership and control on the internet. Most internet applications are controlled by centralized entities that determine how they save and use end-user data.

In a new paper, a philosophy scholar at the University of Kansas addresses the moral agency of artificial intelligence. Although AI does not currently have practical judgment, the researcher shows it has a functionally equivalent mechanism, transformer models, which can allow it to form maxims that consider morally salient facts.