URochester | Using AI to advance child development and learning
Nov. 14, 2024 - The University of Rochester researcher is developing technology to help deaf and hard of hearing kids benefit from artificial intelligence.
UW-Madison DSI | AI for Science Seminar: AI for the Working Mathematician
Nov. 12, 2025 - DSI is launching a new seminar series focused on AI for Science, which will highlight advances in science fueled by machine learning and AI as well as advances in AI inspired by scientific challenges. Our inaugural speaker is François Charton, a research engineer at Meta AI.
UMN DSI | Congratulations to Dr. Genevieve Melton-Meaux on Her Election to the National Academy of Medicine
Dr. Genevieve Melton-Meaux, Professor in the Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery and Co-Chair of the Data Science Initiative, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
Mississippi State to Teach Students to Build, Train AI Systems
A $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant will help train a cohort of 60 Mississippi State University students to develop artificial intelligence systems capable of analyzing digital images.
Vanderbilt DSI | Experts discuss the future of AI at congressional briefing
Nov. 12, 2024 - Vanderbilt's Data Science Institute Director Jesse Spencer-Smith joined retired General Paul Nakasone at a congressional briefing to provide crucial insights on artificial intelligence capabilities and challenges.
Nov. 4, 2024 - Three faculty members from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) were recognized for their excellence in undergraduate teaching
UM-Ann Arbor | MIDAS Intensifies Efforts to Build Cross-Sector Collaboration for AI in Science and Society
Nov. 5, 2024 - New projects at the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society mark its intensified effort to help academia, industry, government and community collaborate with each other to shape AI for the benefits of science and society.
UC San Diego Launches Data-Sharing Resource for Wildfire Research
A new data-sharing platform at UC San Diego will bring the latest research and technology on wildfire ecology into one place, allowing researchers, government officials and other experts to collaborate on solutions.
UW-Madison | MadPrompts 2024 highlights generative AI during Wisconsin Science Festival
Nov. 7, 2024 - Following the success of MadPrompts 2023, the first generative artificial intelligence (AI) prompt battle on an American university campus, WARF and the UW-Madison DSI hosted MadPrompts 2024 on Oct. 18 in the Discovery Building’s H.F. DeLuca Forum.
Central Connecticut State's 'AI Corridor' Features Holograms, Robots
CCSU is the first university in the U.S. to work with AI companies on developing a holographic synthetic human, and the first to integrate it alongside students and faculty.
AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
UW researchers tested three open-source, large language models (LLMs) and found they favored resumes from white-associated names 85% of the time, and female-associated names 11% of the time. Over the 3 million job, race and gender combinations tested, Black men fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.
Vanderbilt | Transforming Automotive Insights: The Nissan-Vanderbilt Collaboration
Oct. 24, 2024 - The Nissan-Vanderbilt Collaboration Innovation in Automotive Design Vanderbilt Data Science is excited to spotlight an innovative collaboration between Nissan and our dedicated Data Science students, focused on developing an AI chatbot that embodies diverse customer personas.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | MIDAS Annual Data Science & AI Summit x ADSA Conference
The ‘24 Summit is partnered with the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) Annual Meeting to bring national leaders in data science and AI research and education to the Summit.
NSF advances 71 teams spanning nearly every U.S. state and territory in the second Regional Innovation Engines competition | NSF - National Science Foundation
UTSA | SDS's Los Datos Conference 2024 Poster Session Winners Announced
Oct. 22, 2024 - The Los Datos Conference 2024 hosted a dynamic poster session where students showcased their innovative research across various fields of data science, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.
Initiative to support interaction between cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence
As artificial intelligence technology rapidly advances, a group of Princeton researchers is asking what human minds can teach us about developing smarter AI and what AI can in turn teach us about how human minds work.
New Sloan grant gives STRUDEL resources to improve tools and expand community
Oct. 14, 2024 - The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a $1.125 million grant that will facilitate the growth of the STRUDEL project, allowing new collaborations between researchers at the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and partners at Superbloom, The Carpentries, and 2i2c.