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AI tool set to transform characterisation and treatment of cancers
AI tool set to transform characterisation and treatment of cancers
Jun 24, 2025 - A multinational team of researchers developed and tested a new AI tool to better characterise the diversity of individual cells within tumours, opening doors for more targeted therapies for patients.
AI tool set to transform characterisation and treatment of cancers
Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers
Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers
Jun 23, 2025 - The authors found no evidence of a sizeable negative impact of AI on workers’ well-being and mental health. If anything, there is evidence of an improvement in health status and health satisfaction, which may be explained by the decline in job physical intensity.
Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers
UNC-CH | Rethinking AI Responsibility
UNC-CH | Rethinking AI Responsibility
Jun 23, 2025 - Francesca Tripodi is putting people at the heart of AI — challenging bias, teaching ethics, and shaping a more responsible future for technology.
UNC-CH | Rethinking AI Responsibility
Maryland Universities Team With Google for AI, Tech Certificates
Maryland Universities Team With Google for AI, Tech Certificates
Jun 20, 2025 - University System of Maryland students will have free access to Google Career Certificates in cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing and e-commerce, IT support, project management and UX design.
Maryland Universities Team With Google for AI, Tech Certificates
Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role
Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role
Jun 20, 2025 - Those stepping up to fill education’s new C-suite role say it's more than just understanding IT — it requires communication and skill-building across disciplines and comfort levels, and flexibility to create a road map.
Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting
Jun 21, 2025 - AI is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it. Enrollment in CS quadrupled from 2005 to 2023, but enrollment was up just 0.2% nationally this year.
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting
Minnesota State to Offer Robotics Engineering, AI Degrees
Minnesota State to Offer Robotics Engineering, AI Degrees
Jun 18, 2025 - In response to industry demands, Minnesota State University will offer a bachelor's degree in robotics engineering and a master's degree in artificial intelligence this fall, expecting about 25 students in each.
Minnesota State to Offer Robotics Engineering, AI Degrees
Holyoke Community College to Offer Free 'AI Essentials' Course
Holyoke Community College to Offer Free 'AI Essentials' Course
Jun 13, 2025 - A college in Massachusetts is working with the nonprofit CanCode Communities to offer a free 12-week course this summer on the fundamentals of AI including prompt engineering, model structures, ethics and other topics.
Holyoke Community College to Offer Free 'AI Essentials' Course
Unpacking the bias of large language models
Unpacking the bias of large language models
Jun 17, 2025 - MIT researchers discovered the underlying cause of position bias, a phenomenon that causes large language models to overemphasize the beginning or end of a document or conversation, while neglecting the middle.
Unpacking the bias of large language models
UAmsterdam DSC Away Day
UAmsterdam DSC Away Day
Jun 18, 2025 - The DSC Away Day explored how AI in video challenges our creativity, ethics, and ways of working - set against the backdrop of the Eye Film Institute.
UAmsterdam DSC Away Day
UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’
UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’
Jun 9, 2025 - The Wharton School’s new podcast conducts conversations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industry.
UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | NSF RDSV Project Workshop – MIDAS
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | NSF RDSV Project Workshop – MIDAS
Jun 18, 2025 - The Research and Development Strategic Visioning (RDSV) team recently hosted its second workshop on Collaborative Design of Data and AI Systems for Science and Society with a diverse group of experts from U-M, Microsoft and Detroit.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | NSF RDSV Project Workshop – MIDAS
UNC-CH | Building student AI literacy
UNC-CH | Building student AI literacy
Jun 9, 2025 - Students have questions about artificial intelligence. Materials from the Carolina AI Literacy Initiative help them learn to use AI effectively and responsibly.
UNC-CH | Building student AI literacy
UChicago | Five DSI Scholars Set to Continue in Academia
UChicago | Five DSI Scholars Set to Continue in Academia
Jun 18, 2025 - The Data Science Institute (DSI) is excited to share that several members of its Postdoctoral Scholars program and Preceptor program will be moving on to academic positions this fall.
UChicago | Five DSI Scholars Set to Continue in Academia