Students from Dakota State join an international AI cyber consortium in Sweden
Students at Dakota State University lead the work of developing artificial intelligence technology on an international scale.
DSU announced on Wednesday that they are joining an international AI cyber consortium with Edge Learning Lab launched by AI Sweden, the Swedish national center for applied AI. The University will incorporate its Madison Cyber Labs into the Cyber Security Labs initiative.
As part of the consortium, doctoral students from DSU and Sweden will spend four weeks at DSU, four weeks in Sweden and another two weeks of program development work.
Leading faculty members from DSU who join the consortium include Professors Austin O’Brien and Mark Spanier from Beacom College of Computer and Cyber Sciences.
DSU’s chairman José-Marie Griffiths visited Sweden this week for the formal announcement about the lab. Edge Learning is a new area with high potential in AI, designed with a focus on keeping training data at or near the source – the edge.
It is a technology that has been identified as a critical growth area in AI that will improve data privacy, cover data transfer costs and distribute computing efforts in security, healthcare, finance, space, mobile electronics and automotive applications, according to a press release from DSU.
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The Edge Learning Consortium has received international attention and is being launched by international academics and industry leaders to accelerate the technical development and application of edge learning globally.
The consortium’s first priorities include application areas such as mobility, space, health and cyber security.
Partners from DSU’s MadLabs and a handful of other application-focused labs – the Global Center of Excellence for Cyber Security for Distributed Intelligence, AI Sweden and RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden) – will work to create a global cybersecurity lab to deploy intelligence focus on cyber security in Edge Learning as part of the consortium.
Griffiths has served as a commissioner in the National Security Commission on AI and was invited last fall to the Future of Democracy Summit sponsored by AI Sweden to discuss “Sustainable Citizenship in a Digital Age.”
This event led to meetings between DSU and AI Sweden to become part of this consortium. Griffiths is also a member of the consortium’s advisory board.