It's 2009, the air is crisp, orange and golden leaves drift along the sidewalks of IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis). The campus feels almost asleep, but the voices of students rushing between classes fill the silence and replace the emptiness with heartbeat.
The command post is a folding table, a pile of radios and a man who has not been to his job in nearly two weeks. William Whitmer, who is known by everyone on site as Whitty, stands in the middle of Ravenswood, the north-side Indianapolis neighborhood hit hardest by August's historic flooding along the White River, helping coordinate a recovery operation with no budget, no official authority and no one who assigned him the job.
IU Indianapolis is making artificial intelligence part of career preparation. The Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering offers a 16-credit certificate in AI that students can finish in three semesters, and it is open to students in non-computing majors without additional prerequisites. Luddy offers two related credentials as well, in AI engineering and in AI for organizations.
Dolly Parton, the singer, songwriter and philanthropist known as the "Queen of Country," died Aug. 25 at 80. "After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones," her representatives said in a statement. She died in Nashville.
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