AI Solutions to Tackle 21st Century Challenges in Agriculture

The AgAID Institute: AI Solutions to Tackle 21st Century Challenges in Agriculture

The AgAID Institute is a recently awarded National AI Institute led by Washington State University with OSU serving as the AI-lead organization involving over 13 OSU researchers. The goals of the institute are to study new and existing AI techniques for addressing some of the most challenging problems facing today’s farmers, with a focus on specialty crops such as grapes, apples, cherries, nuts, etc. This talk will give a high-level introduction to the institute by reviewing the main research thrusts of Labor, Farm Operations, and Water Management. In addition, we will highlight some of the early projects and results that are underway. Finally, we will look ahead and discuss near-term and longer-term plans for the institute.

Speaker: Alan Fern, Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University.

Zoom link: https://beav.es/tech-talk

Pacific Time / USA