Grand Forks Herald: UND College of Engineering and Mines to add new machine vision and cybersecurity labs
Dean Ryan Adams said construction could start in the summer or fall
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After finishing the radar lab in its national security corridor, the University of North Dakota College of Engineering and Mines is preparing to add two more labs in the summer or fall.
One of the labs involves cybersecurity, a subject Dean Ryan Adams said has been growing alongside artificial intelligence.
“Cybersecurity, of course, uses AI a lot, and so we have a cybersecurity research center, another state-designated center,” he said. “Focused on cyber, but AI has to be involved on some level.”
The college will be working to renovate two lab spaces into a machine vision lab and cybersecurity lab. The cybersecurity lab’s intention is to have a variety of pieces of equipment to test cybersecurity principles on, Adams said. For example, someone may have a router, a switch and computers, and make the setup a test bed for the campus. The test bed can be used for ethical hacking, to explore how to make it more secure and resistant to attacks.
“It’ll be a real hands-on space that we want to give people an opportunity to do real research on,” he said.
Written by Delaney Otto
