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The longer version:  Max Turner is among many UAlbany faculty members whose work blends artificial intelligence tools with other scientific disciplines — in his case, fly neurobiology focused on understanding how vision works in the brain.  Max was among more than two-dozen AI-focused faculty members recruited to UAlbany with the help of new state funding several years ago as part of the largest c...

The longer version:  For many people drawn to careers in atmospheric science, their curiosity is kindled by a formative weather event during their youth — a blizzard or flood that leaves such an impression that they spend their adult lives chasing the mysteries in the clouds and wind. But for Kara, it was as much about the math. “I knew I liked math. I knew I liked science. And I thought, ‘Meteoro...

The longer version:  When we spoke with Taylor, he had already completed his first field practicum, a core component of the Master of Social Work program, at the  Pride Center of the Capital Region . The Albany-based non-profit is dedicated to serving the LGBTQ+ community, offering counseling, peer-led support groups and events. They also offer trainings, which became a focal point of Taylor's exp...

The longer version:   Morgan spoke to us as a representative of a larger cluster of scientists and scholars at UAlbany thinking about how the next generation of computers can take inspiration from the human brain.  His work with that team of biologists, psychologists, mathematicians and nanoscale engineers underscores a truth many scientists have long understood: the problems we care most about, s...

The longer version:   In 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek published a stunning scoop [subscription required] alleging that server hardware designed and sold by the California company Supermicro to more than two-dozen major tech and government clients was compromised with malicious chips installed at the behest of Chinese intelligence. Those hardware trojans, the scoop alleged, gave China backdoor acce...

The longer version:  We asked Michael Yeung about his favorite bits of boron lore. He did not disappoint. Even if the first one may be apocryphal, it would make a great techno spy thriller.    "There was an old story that I heard about how we had a spy in the Soviet Union who was monitoring their rocket launches, and how they noticed that all the rocket plumes were green. The CIA immediately concl...

The longer version:  Jeremy Feldblyum is not just an accomplished chemist and teacher; he holds a bachelor of music from the University of Maryland in piano performance. The intermingling of science and art — and the possibility of one inspiring the other — carries poetic potential too strong to ignore. So of course, we had to ask: Is tuning a MOF like tuning a piano? Here's what Jeremy said: "Man...