By GovTech
Publication Date: 2026-01-12 17:28:00
(TNS) — The University at Albany’s embrace of IBM’s artificial intelligence hardware and expertise is paying quick dividends for researchers in academic departments across the school.
UAlbany’s Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems, which is a $20 million research partnership between IBM and the university, announced seven new research projects last week that are funded by the collaboration.
The AI center uses a cluster of IBM Spyre Accelerator chips installed at its data center on its uptown campus to speed up and enhance academic scientific research.
The AI center at UAlbany is unique in many ways. Not only was UAlbany selected by IBM to be the first place to host the new chips, but its campus is located across the street from Albany NanoTech, the high-tech campus where IBM is developing and testing its AI systems at what is known as the IBM Research AI Hardware Center.
IBM said at the time it would…
