November 27, 2023Missy Cummings holds faculty appointments in the Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science departments in George Mason Univerity's College of Engineering and Computing. Her expertise is leveraged in this article published by multiple news outlets.
November 13, 2023Melissa Perry, dean of Mason’s College of Public Health, is an ardent proponent of virtual reality as a tool to help solve the nation’s health challenges. But she also worries that technology has helped create an “epidemic of loneliness” that has heightened the importance of a shared humanity and “being present for each other.”
July 19, 2023Eighteen Arlington Public School seniors got an in-depth look into the world of artificial intelligence (AI) this summer thanks to George Mason University’s new AI Scholars program.
July 7, 2023His new study shows that terrorists possibly could bring an end to all of humanity. Just another day’s work for policy fellow Zak Kallenborn.
June 22, 2023In May, a cohort of 20 selected AI and Tech fellows gathered at Mason Square for Mason’s AI Strategies first AI and Tech Policy Summer Institute.
June 2, 2023Foteini Baldimtsi, an assistant professor in Mason’s Department of Computer Science, and James Casey, an associate professor in Mason’s Computer Game Design program, help us understand what the metaverse is, or will be, and how the volatile world of cryptocurrency fits in.
February 27, 2023Mason researchers led by Jana Košecká are using AI to make the Internet of Things more inclusive and accessible to those using American Sign Language.
February 17, 2023More than 150 faculty and graduate students from George Mason University’s 10 schools and colleges got together in the Hub on Friday, February 3, to chat about artificial intelligence (AI).
February 13, 2023Researcher Elizabeth “Beth” Phillips is working with collaborators from labs around the country to answer these pressing questions about artificial intelligence and robotics in her role as the principal investigator of Mason's Applied Psychology and Autonomous System Lab.
January 25, 2023Missy Cummings, one of the country’s first female fighter pilots and the director of Mason’s autonomy and robotics center, calls herself a tech futurist, charged with making tech work and helping it get better. She isn’t shy about calling out bad tech either, including the vision systems in self-driving cars and Tesla’s Autopilot.
