WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:

Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, toured the University of Washington's Husky Secure Computing Data and Infrastructure project after securing $10 million for a new, cutting-edge computing and storage platform that will integrate advanced artificial intelligence (AI) computing to allow researchers to perform data-intensive AI research.

During the visit, Senator Murray learned more about the project and the cutting-edge AI research happening at UW-a nationally-recognized AI research hub-and spoke with researchers and students about how their work is critical for understanding the future of AI. Murray secured...