GREENSBORO - North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University's Institute of Machine Intelligent Technologies, Systems and Services (MITSS) has been selected as one of 10 universities to be accepted into Phase I of the National Campus Challenge Problem competition.

The competition is sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Munitions Directorate. Its purpose is to solicit innovative, potentially paradigm-shifting ideas that have the potential to successfully address specific real-world of interest to the Air Force research community. This is accomplished through direct competition, ultimately among a small number of participants.

A nation-wide search was conducted to select the 10 participants for the Phase I White Paper Competition. The initial competition consisted of a letter of intent along with a one-page synopsis that provided an innovative solution to the problem.

A&T was chosen and invited to continue the competition at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Phase I competition will be completed this December yielding two finalist. Phase II (two of the original 10) will continue competition and the sole national winner will be chosen March 2003.

"The mission of the MITSS Institute is to help foster graduate student studies in intelligent algorithms with a concentration in complex adaptive and machine intelligent systems, distributed intelligence and biologically inspired technologies, and information technology, information assurance, systems and services," said Dr. Gary L. Lebby, research professor and MITSS director.

In the Institute's 16-year history, six, doctoral students and 35 master students have graduated in MITSS associated areas.

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