Post-Doc in Agricultural Technology Adoption
We seek a postdoctoral research associate to conduct innovative interdisciplinary research examining the incentives for spatially and behaviorally heterogeneous farmers to adopt precision farming technologies for site-specific input application and its implications for farm profitability and the environment. The research will integrate engineering information about technologies with spatially varying biophysical characteristics of the landscape and […]
Illinois becomes integral in future of artificial intelligence
The University of Illinois will host two new artificial intelligence institutes funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The NSF and USDA-NIFA are planning on investing more than $140 million in seven new artificial intelligence institutes across the country, two of which will be […]
NSF and NIFA awards CDA $20M to develop new AIFARMS Institute
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program awarded $20 million to the Center for Digital Agriculture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for the new Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability (AIFARMS) Institute. The program, a joint effort between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National […]