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Longtime IBM Executive to Lead Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence

David Watts, an innovation-driven tech leader, will join the College this summer to advance the interdisciplinary mission of AI at Colby

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Where AI Meets Hip-Hop

Colby Assistant Professor Ben Baker studies the data of dance

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A Boston Tech Conference Leads to a Colby-Connected Startup

A group of former and current students is building an AI-based company to bring transparency to the federal budget process

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Discovering New Ways to Understand the World 

Assistant Professor Aleja Ortiz has received a prestigious grant to study atolls

Tahiya Chowdhury, assistant professor of computer science, poses for a portrait.

How AI is Helping Solve the Problem of Marine Debris

A Colby professor and her team design a sustainable marine debris cleanup framework

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How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Higher Education?

The Davis Institute for AI will host experts from liberal arts colleges to answer that question

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Let’s Talk about Artificial Intelligence

At the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, conversations about the consequential technology abound

Michael Yankoski, postdoctoral fellow for the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, teaches a class at the Davis Science Center.

Learning From a Simulated World

Michael Yankoski, a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, wants to use AI to help solve complex human problems

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Colby Receives Major Gift to Establish the McVey Center for Computational and Data Sciences

New center will embed computational and data sciences across the curriculum and be distinctive among the liberal arts

Scholarship Stories from 2023

Our faculty’s research had a broad impact across disciplines during the past year