Univ. of Hartford prof awarded $250K for AI development

A University of Hartford professor, in conjunction with a Central Connecticut State University professor, will begin developing and testing  artificial intelligence teaching materials. The National Science Foundation awarded a $250,000 grant to Ingrid Russell, a professor of computer science at University of Hartford, who will be the lead principal investigator, working with Zdaravko Markov of the computer science department at CCSU. The pair will work with 20 other people from a variety of universities to network security, game playing, computational chemistry, robotics, vision, pattern recognition and data mining.