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A new AI tool can read college essays — and it has the potential to change the way admissions are run at colleges and universities nationwide by reducing bias and improving efficiency.

This artificial intelligence tool, designed by a team at CU Boulder, may be able to help admissions officers sort through tens of thousands of essays and recognize prospective students who might previously have gone unrecognized.

Autonomous vehicles are hitting the road in cities across the U.S. Can they be trusted? Researchers from the Department of Computer Science weigh in. External link to the Coloradan Alumni Magazine.

The University of Colorado Boulder was chosen to join the new Learning Engineering Virtual Institute (LEVI) in order to double the rate of middle school math learning within five years by building a hybrid human-AI tutoring platform that will reach over 275,000 diverse, low-income students.

Sidney D’Mello will lead the five-year project, which will bring together a team of researchers from nine universities from across the country in a close collaboration with two public school districts, private companies and community leaders.