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A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers

Mar. 25, 2025 - Designed to help blind and low-vision readers understand graphics, the “Tactile Vega-Lite” system from MIT CSAIL converts data into a standard visual graph and a tactile chart.

A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers

Zoom bias: The social costs of having a ‘tinny’ sound during video conferences

Mar. 24, 2025 - A new study shows that poor audio quality in videoconferencing negatively affects listeners’ judgments of the people speaking.

Zoom bias: The social costs of having a ‘tinny’ sound during video conferences

UUtah | AI paves the way for kids to learn math by teaching it

Mar. 20, 2025 - Amidst declining math scores, AI-powered app co-created by U faculty aims to double learning rate.

UUtah | AI paves the way for kids to learn math by teaching it

Mastercard Foundation Scholar at CMU Ready To Become a Leader in AI

Mar. 25, 2025 - As a Mastercard Foundation Scholar, Clemence Ingabire is developing the skills to lead the charge toward responsible AI use in health care.

Mastercard Foundation Scholar at CMU Ready To Become a Leader in AI

Exploring Tidy Tuesday: A Community Initiative for Notre Dame Data Science

Mar. 25, 2025 - The University of Notre Dame's Online Master's in Data Science (NDDS) program fosters this spirit through initiatives like Tidy Tuesday.

Exploring Tidy Tuesday: A Community Initiative for Notre Dame Data Science

BU | Data Days for Good Gets Students to Address Real-World Challenges

Mar. 18, 2025 - Five BU students on Team Weber gathered in front of a big screen for a final run-through of their slide deck. They were among five teams of BU students who spent their spring break participating in MassMutual’s Data Days for Good.

BU | Data Days for Good Gets Students to Address Real-World Challenges

AI symposium: UMichigan Engineering speakers share how they use AI in research

Mar 20, 2025 - Engineers at the MIDAS symposium discussed improving AI's interpretability and preventing misuse.

AI symposium: UMichigan Engineering speakers share how they use AI in research

UWashington eScience | Biodiversity Horizons: Predicting Climate Risks

Mar. 24, 2025 - As global temperatures rise, preserving biodiversity is essential for the planet’s health and human well-being. However, current biodiversity risk projections are often limited to a few snapshots of the future.

UWashington eScience | Biodiversity Horizons: Predicting Climate Risks

UNC-CH SDSS students win first and second place in the annual Milwaukee Bucks Hackathon

Mar. 21, 2025 - Two teams of Carolina students won first and second place in the fourth annual hackathon hosted by NBA team Milwaukee Bucks and sponsored by Modine Manufacturing.

UNC-CH SDSS students win first and second place in the annual Milwaukee Bucks Hackathon

Supporting Online Learners: Kristy Simpkins Leads Student Success and Well-Being at UVA Data Science

Mar. 24, 2025 - Discover how Online Student Success and Engagement Director Kristy Simpkins helps online MSDS students thrive.

Supporting Online Learners: Kristy Simpkins Leads Student Success and Well-Being at UVA Data Science

Introducing GovArchive.us & Mirroring Entire Sites with Web Archives

Mar. 25, 2025 - Webrecorder introduces GovArchive.us and tooling to mirror web sites using web archives.

Introducing GovArchive.us & Mirroring Entire Sites with Web Archives

Trading Secrets: What Brain Science and AI Can Learn from Each Other

Mar. 19, 2025 - The National Academies’ Neuroscience Forum explored how knowledge about the brain could potentially shape better AI models, and, conversely, how AI models might help us learn more about the brain.

Trading Secrets: What Brain Science and AI Can Learn from Each Other

Vanderbilt’s Jesse Spencer-Smith appointed to Tennessee AI Advisory Council

Mar. 24, 2025 - Gov. Bill Lee has appointed Vanderbilt University’s Jesse Spencer-Smith to the Tennessee Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council.

Vanderbilt’s Jesse Spencer-Smith appointed to Tennessee AI Advisory Council

As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them

Mar. 23. 2025 - The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them

University of Washington to Relaunch Fintech Incubator

Mar. 20, 2025 - The financial advisory firm Curinos tapped the University of Washington and its innovation hub to support early-stage financial tech companies working in predictive decision-making, AI automation and customer experience.

University of Washington to Relaunch Fintech Incubator

Generative AI Infrastructure Call 2025 - Data Science Centre

Mar. 21, 2025 - To help ensure that this infrastructure is fit for purpose and serves researchers needs, Research IT together with the UvA Data Science Centre (DSC) are once again looking for users to provide feedback.

Generative AI Infrastructure Call 2025 - Data Science Centre

Debra Richardson Defies Gender Stereotypes and Diversifies Computing

Mar. 19, 2025 - As a math major at UC San Diego in the 1970s, Debra Richardson was often one of only two women in her advanced math classes. “Many of my instructors.

Debra Richardson Defies Gender Stereotypes and Diversifies Computing

Princeton Precision Health: An interdisciplinary, AI-driven approach to tackling big questions about health and disease

Mar. 18, 2025 - PPH researchers apply cutting-edge AI and computational models to massive datasets to develop a deep understanding of the factors that shape health and illness.

Princeton Precision Health: An interdisciplinary, AI-driven approach to tackling big questions about health and disease

UC Berkeley | Mapping the return of Indigenous lands using data science

Mar. 19, 2025 - McKalee Steen traces her career in data science to her family's efforts toward environmental justice.

UC Berkeley | Mapping the return of Indigenous lands using data science

UVA | Ken Ono Honored as Cozzarelli Award Finalist for Groundbreaking Work on Prime Numbers

Mar. 19, 2025 - The professor of data science's research reveals a surprising connection between integer partitions and prime numbers, earning him national recognition.

UVA | Ken Ono Honored as Cozzarelli Award Finalist for Groundbreaking Work on Prime Numbers

MIT | AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches

Mar. 21, 2025 - A hybrid AI approach known as hybrid autoregressive transformer can generate realistic images with the same or better quality than state-of-the-art diffusion models, but that runs about nine times faster and uses fewer computational resources.

MIT | AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches

UToronto renews five-year research partnership with Konica Minolta

Mar. 20, 2025 - The University of Toronto and Konica Minolta, Inc. are renewing a research partnership focused on AI and internet-connected devices.

UToronto renews five-year research partnership with Konica Minolta

CCIA Files Comments on AI for OSTP, NSF

Mar. 17, 2025 - In response to a request for information on artificial intelligence from the National Science Foundation on behalf of the Office of Science and

CCIA Files Comments on AI for OSTP, NSF

MIT | Security scheme could protect sensitive data during cloud computation

Mar. 19, 2025 - A theoretical encryption technique could enable anyone to perform computations on encrypted messages without learning anything about the underlying sensitive data. The method, developed at MIT, could prove to be efficient enough to implement in real-world scenarios.

MIT | Security scheme could protect sensitive data during cloud computation

School of Data Science faculty improve AI reliability in medical field

Mar. 17, 2025 - Researchers at the UTSA School of Data Science are making artificial intelligence (AI) more reliably answer medical questions.

School of Data Science faculty improve AI reliability in medical field

NJIT's Bader, Who Helped Invent Modern Supercomputing, Gets HoF Honor

Mar. 17, 2025 - The museum committee cited Bader for “revolutioniz[ing] the computing industry through groundbreaking innovations that democratized high-performance computing.”

NJIT's Bader, Who Helped Invent Modern Supercomputing, Gets HoF Honor

University of Michigan hosts NLP @ Michigan Day

Mar. 18, 2025 - The event drew over 100 researchers to Ann Arbor to discuss the latest research in natural language processing.

University of Michigan hosts NLP @ Michigan Day

Penn State Artificial Intelligence Week 2025: April 14-17 | Penn State University

Mar. 18, 2025 - Penn State Artificial Intelligence (AI) Week will run from April 14 through April 17 at University Park.

Penn State Artificial Intelligence Week 2025: April 14-17 | Penn State University

Gov. Hochul encourages federal cooperation, support for New York AI development

Mar. 18, 2025 - Gov. Hochul released a statement regarding the CHIPS act and Micron deal following President Trump’s accusations of “wasteful” AI spending.

Gov. Hochul encourages federal cooperation, support for New York AI development

NAE Awards The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants for Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research

Mar 17, 2025 - Two Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Grants of $30,000 have been awarded to attendees of FOE 2024 Symposium.

NAE Awards The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grants for Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research