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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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GopherHack Takes Fourth Place in TracerFire Challenge

In their first appearance at Sandia National Labs’ TracerFire challenge, GopherHack members Hassan Fares, Ian Kim, Jordan McVay, and Keegan Volk earned fourth place.
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CSpotlight: Mapping the Past

PhD student Sofia Kirsanova uses computer vision to uncover historic road networks and build stronger connections between computer science and geography.
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Junaed Sattar Leads $200K ENRTF Investigating Invasive Mystery Snails

Associate Professor Junaed Sattar leads a project investigating a mystery snail species in Minnesota lakes in collaboration with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences.

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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.