Category: Education

Old Dominion University (ODU), in collaboration with Iowa State University, the longtime home of GAMESS development, and with support from Amazon Web Services (AWS), built CPU- and GPU-optimized GAMESS containers and began deploying them on AWS High-Performance Computing (HPC) services. Their work offers a practical roadmap for other institutions looking to bring legacy HPC applications into a modern, cloud-native environment.

Social services agencies serve some of society’s most vulnerable members. Service interruptions don’t just create inconvenience—they can delay essential support. The South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS) faced exactly this challenge. Working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), SCDSS modernized 19 contact centers and two interactive voice response (IVR) systems, transforming how the agency connects with the one in six South Carolinians it serves.

In this post, we look at asymmetric outbound network flows and how to remedy this routing for Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads.

Columbia University’s Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, collaborated with AWS to build AutoClimDS, an agentic AI system that researchers with no specialized coding expertise can use to conduct climate data science workflows using natural language. Read this post to learn more.

Every year, an estimated 3 million Americans receive home healthcare services. These programs often improve health outcomes, but they also carry risks. Patients may fall, miss medications, or face complications that lead to hospitalization. Researchers at Columbia University’s School of Nursing are exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) could help predict and prevent such events.

Teams from AWS, working with Sentient Industries, brought the power of AI directly into Excel spreadsheets. Logistics officers can now type the device description in Excel and have the power specs retrieved from a knowledge base in Amazon Bedrock. Unlike a chat-based solution, the AI directly loads the data into spreadsheet cells, creating a streamlined and efficient user workflow. The AI meets the users where they are, and this capability is now being commercialized by Sentient. Read this post to learn more.

Learn how Seesaw worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build an AI-powered reading assessment tool using Amazon Transcribe, and how it has supported teachers at Vacaville Unified School District (VUSD) in northern California.

In this post, we explore how the intuitive interface, collaborative features, and diverse learning modalities of PartyRock make it an ideal tool for educators who want to support AI literacy goals while accommodating different learning styles and technical backgrounds.

Working with AWS, a three-person Boise State University team built boisestate.ai, a custom AI platform, in just six months. The solution gives the entire campus access to multiple models while cutting per-user costs by more than 80%. Read this post to learn more.

In this blog post, you will learn how to deploy and run Moodle using serverless technology on Amazon Web Services (AWS).