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Written by: Henry Lynch | Vanderbilt Junior | History and Economics Major   I grew up in a quaint little town in Wisconsin, took a gap year, spent a year at a Canadian university, and then transferred to Vanderbilt. My path here has been more of a wander than a… Read More

As technology advances at an unprecedented pace, Vanderbilt University’s College of Connected Computing (CCC) is dedicated to showcasing that the true advantage lies in human judgment and insight. Built on Vanderbilt’s historic interdisciplinary strengths, the CCC prepares students to harness the power of AI, data science, and computational thinking across… Read More

How the AI Fridays program helped SOS Care Now’s founder advance his organization When Dr. John Moustoukas, a 2006 Vanderbilt School of Engineering alum, launched SOS Care Now roughly six months ago, a Chicago-area house-call practice that sends emergency-trained physicians to patients’ homes for acute and urgent… Read More

Landri Domingue grew up being told she communicated differently. Today, she is teaching artificial intelligence to communicate better. Domingue, a rising junior studying computer science, is working this summer in Dr. Yu Huang’s Mixed Intelligence Development for Programming Lab (MIND Lab) through Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems. Supported by… Read More

A sixth grader sits down with a chatbot to talk through a science quiz. In most classrooms, that conversation unfolds the way it does with any general-purpose AI tool: friendly, fluent, and mostly improvised, with no real reasoning behind why it says what it says. Clayton Cohn wants to change… Read More

Written by: Kara Coleman Fields This article was originally posted in US News. Read more.   Presenting a generative AI program with information, a request or a problem to solve is called inputting a prompt. The better prompts you input, the better results you can expect to receive as… Read More

A Vanderbilt University research team has won the Best Paper Award at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp 2026), held June 22–25 at the University of Messina in Italy. The award recognizes an AI-enabled decision framework that uses real-world transit data, optimization and simulation to operate demand-responsive… Read More

Written by: Kaitlyn Huamani This article was originally posted in AP News. Read more.   Whether you love or loathe generative AI chatbots, they’re becoming increasingly involved in the business of romance. There’s understandable skepticism about the technology’s place in dating. Still, a… Read More

Most undergraduate students expect to wait until graduate school before tackling unsolved problems in mathematics. Manish Acharya didn’t want to wait. Acharya, a rising senior studying computer science and mathematics, is spending his summer as a research intern at Aalto University in Finland, where he is working on fundamental open… Read More

College of Connected Computing faculty member and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Generative AI in Education and Enterprise Solutions Dr. Jules White has reached a major milestone in global digital learning, with more than one million learners engaging in his AI and tech-based course offerings on Coursera. The achievement reflects Vanderbilt faculty’s growing influence in… Read More