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UAlabama Crawford Awarded NSF Grant to Advance Hands-On Data Science Education
UAlabama Crawford Awarded NSF Grant to Advance Hands-On Data Science Education
Feb 20, 2026 - Dr. Chris Crawford was awarded a grant from the NSF to support the design and development of an educational platform that introduces high school students to data science through interactive cyber-physical human systems.
UAlabama Crawford Awarded NSF Grant to Advance Hands-On Data Science Education
What’s New in Digital Equity: Fed Framework for AI Literacy
What’s New in Digital Equity: Fed Framework for AI Literacy
Feb 19, 2026 - Plus, New Mexico is increasing access to affordable Internet, federal legislation has advanced in Congress to better track funding, Indiana residents have expanded access to fiber broadband, and more.
What’s New in Digital Equity: Fed Framework for AI Literacy
Measuring More and Learning Less (SSIR)
Measuring More and Learning Less (SSIR)
Feb 11, 2026 - How an excessive focus on methods has distracted attention from the more fundamental challenge of building rigor and learning overall.
Measuring More and Learning Less (SSIR)
Digital Government Index and Open, Useful and Re-usable Data Index
Digital Government Index and Open, Useful and Re-usable Data Index
Feb 16, 2026 - This paper presents the 2025 results of the Digital Government Index (DGI), which benchmarks the efforts made by governments to establish the foundations necessary to achieve a coherent, human-centred digital transformation of the public sector; and of the Open, Useful and Re-usable Data Index (OURdata), which measures governments' efforts to design and implement national open government data policies.
Digital Government Index and Open, Useful and Re-usable Data Index
The agentic AI landscape and its conceptual foundations
The agentic AI landscape and its conceptual foundations
Feb 13, 2026 - This paper identifies the most frequently cited features in existing definitions of agentic AI and AI agents, examines how these features are described across sources, and maps them to the key elements of the OECD definition of an AI system.
The agentic AI landscape and its conceptual foundations
Buy versus Build an LLM: A Decision Framework for Governments
Buy versus Build an LLM: A Decision Framework for Governments
Feb 13, 2026 - This paper provides a strategic framework for making this decision by evaluating these options across dimensions including sovereignty, safety, cost, resource capability, cultural fit, and sustainability.
Buy versus Build an LLM: A Decision Framework for Governments
Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science
Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science
Feb 19, 2026 - The Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science is a $30M global initiative to accelerate scientific breakthroughs that improve human health and build climate resilience.
Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science
UToronto Schmidt AI Fellows bring foundation models to the forefront of
UToronto Schmidt AI Fellows bring foundation models to the forefront of
Feb 18, 2026 - Participants started with an introduction to foundation models and their use cases, then dove into hands-on tutorials, and concluded with a hackathon of solving scientific problems using foundation models.
UToronto Schmidt AI Fellows bring foundation models to the forefront of
Prize Competitions and the Genesis Mission | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Prize Competitions and the Genesis Mission | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Feb 18, 2026 - This blog examines how federal prize competitions—recognized in the Genesis Mission, the FY26 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and recommendations from the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology—can serve as effective implementation tools.
Prize Competitions and the Genesis Mission | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Transitioning NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center operations
Transitioning NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center operations
Feb 12, 2026 - Management and operations of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center are expected to transition to a third-party operator consistent with the terms of NSF's cooperative agreement with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
Transitioning NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center operations
CRA Update: Get Excited for the 2026 CRA Summit
CRA Update: Get Excited for the 2026 CRA Summit
Feb 18, 2026 - From July 21-23, 2026, the CRA Summit will convene senior leaders from across academia, industry, and government in Prior Lake, Minnesota, for CRA’s flagship annual gathering focused on the future of computing research
CRA Update: Get Excited for the 2026 CRA Summit
SUNY Schools Partner With Local Universities for AI Research
SUNY Schools Partner With Local Universities for AI Research
Feb 9, 2026 - Various State University of New York schools are working with University at Albany, Binghamton University, University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University on AI programming and research for students and faculty.
SUNY Schools Partner With Local Universities for AI Research