Center for Data Innovation

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming virtually every industry, and the public sector cannot afford to fall behind. State lawmakers across the country have passed laws that create new opportunities to integrate AI tools into government services. Although roughly

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Rossen Kolev, CEO of Smart Farm Robotix, a Bulgaria-based company developing AI-powered agricultural robots that identify and remove weeds without herbicides. Kolev explained how the company combines computer vision, an AI-driven identif...

Geospatial company Taylor Geospatial and Microsoft AI for Good Lab have created an interactive visual called Fields of the World that catalogs agricultural land across the world. The project uses machine learning and computer vision to analyze satellite imagery and identify individual field boundaries. The visual shows where farm fields are located, with bright green marking ...

Microsoft has partnered with Northwestern University and the non‑profit organization Witness to create a dataset of AI-generated and manipulated images, audio, and video designed to improve deepfake detection. The collection includes altered news clips, public figures, and other content that reflects the types of media people encounter online. The project helps researchers tr...