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The Digital Technology Center (Walter Library)
DTC Mission Statement
The DTC's mission embraces three main objectives:
- To create, promote, and coordinate cooperative interdisciplinary advanced technology initiatives between various University colleges and programs.
- To generate new ideas/learning and educate outstanding graduates who are prepared for the high technology industries of the 21st century.
- To promote communication between the University, other institutions, government, industry, and to serve as a point of entry into research and development partnerships with various partners.
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Fighting Covid 19 with Deep Graphs
Prof. George Karypis with PhD students Vasileios Ioannidis (ECE) and Saurav Manchanda (CSci) from the DTC at the University of Minnesota, a team of scientists from the Ohio State University, Hunan University, and Amazon’s AWS AI labs in Shanghai and Palo Alto have created the Drug Repurposing Knowledge Graph (DRKG) and a set of machine learning tools that can be used to prioritize drugs for repurposing studies. More on Fighting Covid 19
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Digital Technology Center
499 Walter Library, 117 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455