Interdisciplinary Teams Win Three Data Storage Awards from Western Digital
Sep 5, 2025 - Researchers from UC San Diego received three Western Digital Petabyte Innovation Quest (Peak) awards for pursuing innovative data storage projects.
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U-M Ann Arbor | $3 million DARPA funding for research on emergent capabilities in language models
Sep 5, 2025 - Wei Hu will advance the mathematical understanding of skill composition in large language models with collaborators at Princeton and TTIC.
HDSI | Newly Funded: Six Faculty Special Projects
Sep 4, 2025 - The Harvard Data Science Initiative is pleased to announce support for six new faculty research projects.
Brown | 2025 Incoming CCMB and CNTR PhD students
Sep 5, 2025 - Welcoming new PhD students starting at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) and the Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR) this fall!
UC Berkeley | Building Together: Two Days of GeoJupyter Community Innovation
Sep 4, 2025 - Over the course of two lively days, 25 developers, researchers, and enthusiasts from a range of backgrounds came together in Berkeley for the GeoJupyter Hackathon
Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward
Sep 4, 2025 - A discussion of libraries and library studies in the context of library education. It is the introduction to, and summary of, my response to the LIS Forward position paper.
How academics and ‘big tech’ can learn from one another
Sep 3, 2025 - Foreseeing clashes of cultures is the key to making industry-academic collaborations mutually beneficial.
When Social Studies Takes the Mic on AI
Sep 3, 2025 - Highlights and insights from the NCSS–DS4E AI Ethics & Tech Conference
Notre Dame | Faculty directors appointed to lead strategic initiatives on Data, AI, and Computing and Global Catholic Research Initiative
Sep 3, 2025 - Nitesh Chawla will lead a University-wide strategic initiative focused on data, artificial intelligence, and computing.
The Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (AI+MPS)
Sep 2, 2025 - This community paper developed out of the NSF Workshop on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Mathematical and Physics Sciences (MPS)
U-M Ann Arbor | Elle O'Brien named new faculty director for MIDAS's Graduate Data Science Certificate
Aug 29, 2025 - O'Brien will be working to make training opportunities for grad students in any scholarly field easy to discover and practice computational methods that are relevant for their research questions.
Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool
Aug 29, 2025 - A system that searches for signs of bad practice Shelp to weed out questionable titles.
Research posts on Bluesky are more original — and get better engagement
Aug 29, 2025 - Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.
multiagent reinforcement learning algorithm for personalized recommendations in bipolar disorder
Aug 28, 2025 - This study introduces a novel multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithm designed for identifying and optimizing personalized recommendations in bipolar disorder.
NSF expanding national AI infrastructure with new data systems and resources
Aug 28, 2025 - The NSF announced two major advancements in America's AI infrastructure: the launch of the Integrated Data Systems and Services (NSF IDSS)
CMU | Arm CEO Rene Haas Talks AI at President's Lecture Series
Aug 25, 2025 - To kick off the academic year, Arm CEO Rene Haas joined Carnegie Mellon University President Farnam Jahanian in the first event of the 2025-26 President’s Lecture Series.
UC Berkeley DSE Postdoc Maya Zomer Uncovers New Insights into Mediterranean Shrub Resilience
Aug 26, 2025 - Maya Zomer, a postdoctoral researcher on our team, is the lead author of a new paper in Journal of Experimental Botany exploring how Mediterranean shrubs recover after disturbance and their resilience to global change.
New Conference at CSUB to Explore Ripple Effects of AI
Aug 25, 2025 - The inaugural NextTech Kern conference at Cal State Bakersfield in October, intended to be a community event, will explore how AI is set to affect education, businesses and digital safety.
West Virginia College Partners With Industry to Create AI Program
Aug 26, 2025 - Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College will create workforce-aligned AI education pathways with input from IBM and Northrop Grumman on which competencies are most needed by employers.
NCSU | The Strength of Interdisciplinary Ties: Leveraging Social Connections in Data Science and AI Education
Aug 26, 2025 - From classrooms to careers: how human connection is shaping success in data science and AI education at NC State.
R&D Spending at Federally Funded R&D Centers Surpassed $31 Billion in FY 2024
Aug 26, 2025 - The nation’s 42 FFRDCs spent $31.7 billion on R&D in FY 2024, an increase of $2.4 billion from FY 2023.
Teaching and Testing in the AI Era: Rethinking Student Evaluation at the 2025 CRA Summit
Aug 25, 2025 - How can colleges and universities ensure that students are actually learning — and that faculty are equipped to teach — in this new reality?
CCC Releases a New Whitepaper on Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research
Aug 25, 2025 - The paper emphasizes that exploring high-risk, long-term research areas such as these is crucial for sustained AI progress.
CS vs. AI: Degrees of Debate at the 2025 CRA Summit on AI Undergraduate Education
Aug 25, 2025 - Should artificial intelligence (AI) be taught as a specialization within computer science, or offered as a standalone degree?
Infographic: Computing Bachelor’s Enrollment Continues to Grow Even as the Field Evolves
Aug 25, 2025 - New student enrollment increased by 9.9 percent across Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information fields among departments reporting data for both this year and last.
CCC at the 2025 CRA Summit: Shaping the Future of AI in Academia and Research
Aug 25. 2025 - CCC members helped chart a course for how the computing research community can prepare educators, students, and researchers for an AI-driven future.
2025 CRA Summit Recap – AI Education and Computing Research at a Defining Moment
Aug 25, 2025 - Over the course of the week, attendees from academia, industry, and government explored how AI is reshaping computing research, undergraduate and graduate education, and workforce development.
University of Oxford | Using AI to reclassify multiple sclerosis progression
Aug 20, 2025 - This model is based on the largest collection of clinical trial data (Novartis-Oxford MS dataset) from people living with MS.
UC Berkeley | A Summer of Collaboration at BIDS
Aug 21, 2025 - "Admiration for the people, for the work, and for the ways those two things intersect at UC Berkeley."
UVA SDS | Ph.D. Student Profile: Yuyang Cheng
Aug 19, 2025 - From Chengdu to Charlottesville, Ph.D. student Yuyang Cheng is advancing human-centered AI and trustworthy machine learning at UVA.