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From: "Mulhern III, John J" <>
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Subject: AI Innovation Accelerator Kickoff Event and Survey
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:28:45 +0000
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Dear Colleagues,

(now with a corrected survey link—my apologies)

We are excited that you have joined this new AI Developer Community—an initiative aimed at building an active, collaborative community of AI innovators within higher education. As we’ve said before, you will see code!

Two immediate items

Our first virtual meeting is on Thursday, August 1, at 3:00 PM EST. Group co-lead Ayham Boucher from Cornell will talk all things RAG and introduce a custom text splitter to enhance the performance of your RAG applications. The calendar invite is here.

If you have not already done so, please complete our short survey. This survey will help us understand where we are as a group with respect to AI and AI development experience and will help shape future content. The corrected survey link is here.

Goal, vision, and one more ask

Our goal for each of these meetings is that participants will learn something and go away with tangible links, ideas, and resources to apply at their institution. We plan many virtual meetings and a spring 2025 in-person meetup. Future meetings already planned include ASU’s Zohair Zaidi in September on their internal platform architecture and David LaPorte from Harvard in October.

Our vision is to establish a thriving community where AI leaders and practitioners in higher ed can connect, collaborate, and enhance their skills through regular virtual and in-person gatherings. This initiative will also generate a valuable repository of shared training resources, use cases, and video content to benefit all involved. Internet2 has graciously provided us with a wiki space for this initiative, which is coming soon. Uniting the broader higher ed developer community allows us to leverage a wide range of talent, knowledge, and interest, providing more opportunities for learning and collaboration than any single university can achieve alone.

Finally, please let us know if you have any suggestions or ideas that you would like to see incorporated in this community. Your input is vital as we move forward.

Sincerely,

The Internet2 / RUCC AI Innovation Acceleration Working Group

Kemal Badur, U Chicago

Ayham Boucher, Cornell

Sean Cleveland, U Hawaii

Becky Joffrey, Cornell

John Mulhern III, U Penn

Dale Pike, Virginia Tech

Brandon Rich, Notre Dame

Vinay Varughese, Cornell Weill

AI Innovation Accelerator Kickoff Event and Survey, Mulhern III, John J, 07/22/2024

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