Responsible, Trustworthy, and Purposeful Technology created within our Community
The Institute brings faculty, staff, students, and partners together to design, test, and responsibly deploy AI systems that serve learning and the common good.
Cloud AI Frameworks
Building and governing AI agents on cloud platforms, with guardrails suited to teaching, learning, and institutional use.
Explore →Local AI Systems
Running agents on local and campus-controlled infrastructure, keeping data private and under our own stewardship.
Explore →Agentic Analysis Pipelines
Multi-step agent workflows that turn raw data into analysis, insight, and decisions people can trust and verify.
Explore →Human-AI Collaboration Lab (HACLab)
HACLab is a physical space inside the Institute where students, faculty, staff, and external partners come together to study how people and AI can work well together. It is home to our research, a showcase for emerging technology, and a place for our community to explore human-centered, responsible uses of AI side by side.
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Pedagogical innovation, partnership activation, experiential learning
ZagAI 2.0
The agent framework behind ZagAI, supporting AI assistants and agents for students, faculty, staff, campus offices, and researchers.
Learn more →Tofu
A local AI-powered robot run by multiple LLM agents. Tofu can speak, hear, see, move around, and, with permission, control other nearby devices.
Learn more →GRAFT
A metacognitive graph memory architecture for Growing, Reflective, and Auditable Formation of Traces, with fully traceable and inspectable memory.
Learn more →Project Photo
A photo-driven adventure game that mixes human-created photos with AI-generated images. Players must tell the two apart to escape a labyrinth of digital photos.
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Hoopfest
Create a bracketing algorithm that recommends team placement within brackets inside each division, reducing Hoopfest's manual workload.
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Copilot Agent Training
Hands on training on how to design, build, and reliably use Copilot agents in Microsoft 365.
Read more →Value & Responsibility in AI Technologies Conference
This event convenes scholars, students, thought leaders in education, INW industry professionals and global tech leaders to explore the impact of AI on our identity, educational practices, and the evolving landscape of work.
Read more →AI Reading Group: Teaching and Trust in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Explore how AI is changing education, especially the role of trust, and what that means for how we teach, learn, and engage with one another.
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