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Penn State ICDS 2025 AI cluster hire

Nov 28, 2025 - Penn State University is aiming to hire multiple Tenure-track or Tenured faculty as part of an ambitious multi-year cluster hire in AI across multiple university campuses, to help realize the university’s goals of transformative integration of AI across research and graduate and undergraduate curricula across all disciplines.

Penn State ICDS 2025 AI cluster hire

Advancing Public Interest Technology in Computing: New Insights for the Community

Nov 24, 2025 - The Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) convened 3 national roundtables and summarized the key insights that emerged.

Advancing Public Interest Technology in Computing: New Insights for the Community

This AI combo could unlock human-level intelligence

Nov 25, 2025 - Blending ‘old-fashioned’ logic systems with the neural networks that power large language models is one of the hottest trends in artificial intelligence.

This AI combo could unlock human-level intelligence

Accelerating science with AI

Nov 25, 2025 - This discussion should center on two parallel efforts—creating the integrated infrastructure, from data and algorithms to hardware and agentic control, needed to apply AI to speed up research; and determining the policies and resources that empower scientists to fuel the feedback loop of scientific advancement and AI innovation.

Accelerating science with AI

Colleges Are Closing. Who Might Be Next?

Nov 25, 2025 - How machine learning can fill data gaps and help forecast the future

Colleges Are Closing. Who Might Be Next?

Notre Dame | Conference rcordings from the RISE AI Conference

Nov 25, 2025 - Explore the conference recordings and event highlights gallery, now available on the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society website

Notre Dame | Conference rcordings from the RISE AI Conference

University at Buffalo professor and computer science expert named new dean of the UTSA College of AI, Cyber and Computing

Nov 25, 2025 - UT San Antonio announced on Tuesday the appointment of Jinjun Xiong as founding dean of the College of AI, Cyber and Computing.

University at Buffalo professor and computer science expert named new dean of the UTSA College of AI, Cyber and Computing

U-M Ann Arbor | AI for studying turbulence: A fresh look at an unsolved physics problem

Nov 19, 2025 - Explainable AI helps find key drivers of turbulence, offering new insights that could improve flight safety and industrial efficiency.

U-M Ann Arbor | AI for studying turbulence: A fresh look at an unsolved physics problem

A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do

Nov 24, 2025 - Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.

A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do

What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution

Nov 24, 2025 - The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms.

What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution

What’s Next for Bill Gropp

Nov 21, 2025 - Bill Gropp may be stepping down next month from his role as director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, but he’s not done having an impact on the HPC community.

What’s Next for Bill Gropp

We Trained China’s AI Researchers. Now We Risk Being Surpassed in AI Innovation.

Nov 21, 2025 - SNotable Stanford classes are using Qwen models, as Chinese open-source models often surpass America’s in balancing cost and performance.

We Trained China’s AI Researchers. Now We Risk Being Surpassed in AI Innovation.

"Steampunk" Self-Learning Mechanical Circuits That Adapt to Their Environments | Stanford HAI

Nov 24, 2025 - Researchers at Stanford have invented a new type of self-powered mechanical circuits that learn. It could lead to new purely mechanical machines that understand and adapt to the changing world around them.

"Steampunk" Self-Learning Mechanical Circuits That Adapt to Their Environments | Stanford HAI

Trump signs executive order launching Genesis Mission AI project

Nov 24, 2025 - The order announced the “Genesis Mission” for AI, a new federal push to mobilize the federal government's research and data to create artificial intelligence models.

Trump signs executive order launching Genesis Mission AI project

UChicago | Data Movement Without Borders: Ian Foster and the Globus Team Honored with SC25’s Test of Time Award

Nov 13, 2025 - The Department of Computer Science congratulates Ian Foster and his collaborators on this recognition, celebrating an innovation that continues to support scientific progress and collaboration across disciplines.

UChicago | Data Movement Without Borders: Ian Foster and the Globus Team Honored with SC25’s Test of Time Award

Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia

Nov 18, 2025 - Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?

Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia

UNC-CH School of Data Science and Society announces new professional degree programs

Nov 20, 2025 - The master's and doctorate in data science programs were approved at a Nov. 20 UNC Board of Governors meeting.

UNC-CH School of Data Science and Society announces new professional degree programs

Google DeepMind won a Nobel prize for AI: can it produce the next big breakthrough?

Nov 18, 2025 - The company was created to use AI for world- changing science — and achieved that with AlphaFold. But the advent of large language models raises deep questions about the future of DeepMind.

Google DeepMind won a Nobel prize for AI: can it produce the next big breakthrough?

Noah Smith named endowed chair and vice provost for artificial intelligence

Nov 18, 2025 - Noah Smith, a professor in the Allen School and senior director of Natural Language Processing research at the Allen Institute for AI, has agreed to serve as the University’s first vice provost and endowed chair for AI.

Noah Smith named endowed chair and vice provost for artificial intelligence

AI Science Conference at Caltech

Nov 19, 2025 - This event brought together leading researchers in core AI and domain sciences to lead conversations and drive partnerships that will shape future inquiry, industry investment, and entrepreneurial opportunities.

AI Science Conference at Caltech

Ohio State | Saving and preserving animal species with AI

Nov 12, 2025 - Ohio State’s Tanya Berger-Wolf explains how Imageomics — a new field at the intersection of AI and biology — is revealing hidden patterns in nature’s images, helping researchers better understand animal behavior and protect Earth’s biodiversity before it’s too late.

Ohio State | Saving and preserving animal species with AI

Ramapo College DMC Partners with South Brunswick High School on AI in Computer Science Education

Nov 18, 2025 - The DMC Center is collaborating with South Brunswick High School on a research project exploring how generative AI tools can support student learning in introductory computer science courses.

Ramapo College DMC Partners with South Brunswick High School on AI in Computer Science Education

The future of AI

Nov 14, 2025 - Artificial intelligence is flying high. Nature asked leading innovators what they think will happen next.

The future of AI

UNC-C SDS Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Dongsong Zhang

Nov 14, 2024 - The School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte is proud to highlight the leadership, scholarship, and impact of Dr. Dongsong Zhang.

UNC-C SDS Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Dongsong Zhang

UPenn Machine learning and the social sciences

Nov 14, 2024 - Daniel Gillion’s course teaches students without a coding background how to apply models to a wide range of problems across political science, economics, and sociology.

UPenn Machine learning and the social sciences

UCI | After Service, New Purpose: UC’s Student Veterans Find Their Next Mission: Amanda Lassiter

Nov 12, 2025 - Meet a few of UC’s veteran and active-duty students and alumni.

UCI | After Service, New Purpose: UC’s Student Veterans Find Their Next Mission: Amanda Lassiter

MTSU Predicting Workers’ Compensation Dispute Outcomes with Large Language Models

Nov 14, 2024 - Dr. Vajira Manathunga from MTSU’s Department of Mathematical Sciences talks about some of his work on applying LLM’s in actuarial science. His work compares the results from LLM to NLP pipelines.

MTSU Predicting Workers’ Compensation Dispute Outcomes with Large Language Models

CDS Affiliate John Byers Selected to Lead AIDA and Advise the Provost on AI Strategy for BU

Nov 14, 2025 - AIDA is dedicated to equipping faculty, staff, and students with the knowledge, tools, and critical frameworks to navigate the evolving landscape of generative AI.

CDS Affiliate John Byers Selected to Lead AIDA and Advise the Provost on AI Strategy for BU

Second Cohort of UC San Diego’s 2025 Convene and Influence Awardees Announced

Nov 11, 2025 - Six new faculty-led teams have been selected as UC San Diego’s Fall 2025 Convene and Influence Awardees.

Second Cohort of UC San Diego’s 2025 Convene and Influence Awardees Announced

UVA SDS Faculty spotlight: Building smarter, safer systems for the real world

Nov 11, 2025 - Daniel Graham, an associate professor in the School of Data Science, studies how to build intelligent systems that are safe and reliable.

UVA SDS Faculty spotlight: Building smarter, safer systems for the real world