University of Alabama at Birmingham Assistant Professor Thomas Gilray has received a National Science Foundation grant for $2.6 million to develop a full-stack foundation, rules-based programming for next-generation AI-based languages. This high-level programming will enable users to specify a problem and receive a materialized solution automatically.
Gilray, who is in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Computer Science, said, “The goal of this project is to enable someone with domain-specific medical knowledge, for example, to write sophisticated queries for, and analyses of, medical databases and get back efficient responses without needing to be a computer expert, or even a programmer.”
Working with Gilray is Matthew Might, a professor of computer science and director of the Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute, who will serve as co-principal investigator on the grant. Other collaborators include researchers at Ohio State University, Washington State University, the University of Texas, Syracuse University and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
