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Spotlight on Ohio Research & Innovation News

Examining the viability of autonomous vehicles in rural settings, the Rural Automated Driving Systems (ADS) project, a collaboration between DriveOhio, the Department of Transportation and Ohio University, collected data on the performance of self-driving cars in less populated areas, where infrastructure can differ greatly from urban environments.

Victoria Heasley, MD, assistant professor in the Colleges of Medicine and Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Cincinnati and a UC Health physician, helped cofound The Bridge Adaptive Sports and Recreation, a nonprofit that serves as a hub to increase awareness and promote opportunity for individuals to participate in adaptive sports and helped launch UC’s Adaptive Athletics program

A new alliance with The Ohio State University will offer all clients advanced artificial intelligence resources for high performance computing...The additional graphics processing units on the Ascend cluster also will help accommodate the growing number of Ohio Supercomputer Center clients using the HPC clusters for artificial intelligence and machine learning work.  

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