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Inaugural Margot and Tom Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence Announces Winners - DSI

Nov 10, 2025 - This year’s prize selection was overseen by an international committee of distinguished experts, whose membership includes notable industry figures such as John Jumper, Eric Hortvitz and Pushmeet Kohli.

Inaugural Margot and Tom Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence Announces Winners - DSI

Notre Dame | Meet the Lucy Family Institute Faculty: Jay Brockman

Oct 15, 2025 - Brockman is the Co-Director of the Civic and Geospatial Analysis and Learning Lab (C-GALL) within the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society.

Notre Dame | Meet the Lucy Family Institute Faculty: Jay Brockman

What should be included in a data science curriculum for schools?

Oct 30, 2025 - Discover key themes for an effective school data science curriculum, from data literacy and ethics to machine learning AI principles.

What should be included in a data science curriculum for schools?

Padhraic Smyth Receives $900K NSF Grant for Improving Human-AI Decision-Making

Nov 3, 2025 - Padhraic Smyth, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in AI at UC Irvine School of Information and Computer Sciences, and co-PI Mark Steyvers, Professor and Chair of Cognitive Sciences, have received a 4-year $900k grant from the NSF for their project “Improving Human-AI Decision-Making Partnerships Through Shared Understanding.”

Padhraic Smyth Receives $900K NSF Grant for Improving Human-AI Decision-Making

UUtah Kahlert School of Computing Introduces New AI Minor and ‘Exploring AI’ Course

Oct 31, 2025 - The AI Minor is designed to complement a variety of Engineering majors, allowing students to incorporate insights from the field into other aspects of data science, computer engineering, robotics, and more.

UUtah Kahlert School of Computing Introduces New AI Minor and ‘Exploring AI’ Course

‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text

Nov 5, 2025 - A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.

‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text

New curriculum in the UK to give young people the skills for life and work

Nov 4, 2025 - The UK government to set out plans to bring the curriculum into the modern day and help young people step into the future.

New curriculum in the UK to give young people the skills for life and work

Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season

Nov 4, 2025 - Meanwhile, the US Global Forecasting System continues to get worse.

Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season

UCI Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi Receives NSF CAREER Award

Nov 4, 2025 - Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, assistant professor at the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award

UCI Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi Receives NSF CAREER Award

Rada Mihalcea and collaborators receive ICMI Ten-Year Impact Runner-Up Award

Nov 4, 2025 - The award recognizes the lasting influence of their research on multimodal deception detection using real-life courtroom data.

Rada Mihalcea and collaborators receive ICMI Ten-Year Impact Runner-Up Award

Can AI be truly creative?

Nov 5, 2025 - Chatbots and AI models are challenging ideas about who — or what — can create art, music and more.

Can AI be truly creative?

Navigating Challenges, Opportunities, and Uncertainties as Women in Data Science

Nov 3, 2025 - At AN25, an engaging panel session focused on the challenges and opportunities of women in data science professions.

Navigating Challenges, Opportunities, and Uncertainties as Women in Data Science

Schmidt Sciences awards $18M to researchers working to ensure AI benefits society

Nov 5, 2025 - Schmidt Sciences announced that 28 scholars studying how to fulfill AI’s potential to dramatically benefit humankind are eligible to receive more than $18 million in AI2050 fellowships.

Schmidt Sciences awards $18M to researchers working to ensure AI benefits society

University of Pennsylvania Partners With the State on AI

Nov 4, 2025 - The Cooperative Agreement for Artificial Intelligence Advising Services enables collaboration between the state and the University of Pennsylvania, with the latter advising the government on AI.

University of Pennsylvania Partners With the State on AI

Learning With AI: What It Means for Students, Teachers, and Parents

Oct 29, 2025 - The future of education and what it means to build a smarter, more human-centered classroom.

Learning With AI: What It Means for Students, Teachers, and Parents

USU Michael Twohig Presents 2025 D. Wynne Thorne Lecture

Oct 31, 2025 -Michael Twohig gave the 2025 D. Wynne Thorne Lecture to an audience of colleagues, students and other members of Utah State's research community on Oct. 28.

USU Michael Twohig Presents 2025 D. Wynne Thorne Lecture

UIC | Zuck’s call for stronger network protocols published in prestigious CS journal

Oct 29, 2025 - Research Professor Lenore Zuck coauthored a paper encouraging collaboration between the networking community and formal methods researchers to develop formal languages, tools, and methodologies for network protocols.

UIC | Zuck’s call for stronger network protocols published in prestigious CS journal

Universities Must Reclaim AI Research for the Public Good

Oct 30, 2025 - With corporate AI labs turning inward, academia must carry forward the mantle of open science.

Universities Must Reclaim AI Research for the Public Good

Natarajan Ravikumar: From UNC Charlotte to Global Innovator

Oct 31, 2025 - When Natarajan Ravikumar arrived in the United States from India in 2010, he carried with him a vision that would later define a remarkable career at the intersection of technology, leadership, and innovation.

Natarajan Ravikumar: From UNC Charlotte to Global Innovator

UU SCI’s Expansive Presence at IEEE VIS 2025 Includes Best Paper and Test of Time Awards

Nov 1, 2025 - SCI researchers are presenting 10 workshop papers, organizing 3 workshops, and leading a panel and a tutorial.

UU SCI’s Expansive Presence at IEEE VIS 2025 Includes Best Paper and Test of Time Awards

U-M Ann Arbor | MIDAS Shaping the Future of AI for Conservation

Oct 30, 2025 - In September 2025, Schmidt Science Fellows and alumni from Oxford, Michigan, and Cornell gathered in Oxford for a week-long workshop titled Shaping the Future of AI for Conservation.

U-M Ann Arbor | MIDAS Shaping the Future of AI for Conservation

UW–Madison partners with Microsoft and TitletownTech to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery

OCt 30, 2025 - UW–Madison researchers will work with Microsoft Discovery experts and TitletownTech’s network of industry partners to explore applications of advanced AI that can accelerate research and translation.

UW–Madison partners with Microsoft and TitletownTech to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery

UVA SDS | From Classroom to Clinic: Applying Data Science to Global Health in Tanzania

Oct 27, 2025 - A Q&A with MSDS student Kayla Lee as she reflects on her fieldwork through UVA’s Global Data Science Fellowship researching infectious diseases in Tanzania.

UVA SDS | From Classroom to Clinic: Applying Data Science to Global Health in Tanzania

UChicago DSI | Two Postdoctoral Scholars Awarded Fellowships

Oct 31, 2025 - The Data Science Institute is pleased to announce that two members of its Postdoctoral Scholars program have been awarded named fellowships in recognition of their exceptional research.

UChicago DSI | Two Postdoctoral Scholars Awarded Fellowships

Applications are open for Penn AI Postdoctoral Fellowships

Oct 31, 2025 - The Data Driven Discovery Initiative has expanded its Penn postdoctoral fellows program in partnership with Penn AI.

Applications are open for Penn AI Postdoctoral Fellowships

Neighborhood Data Project Probes Environmental Challenges

Oct 31, 2025 - Even with diminished federal funding, organizers of the Baltimore-Social Environmental Collaborative plan to empower community members to keep collecting data and putting it to use.

Neighborhood Data Project Probes Environmental Challenges

Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’

Oct 31, 2025 - Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.

Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’

Nine new tenure-track faculty join Johns Hopkins Computer Science

Oct 29, 2025 - Their research spans social computing and human-computer interaction to the theoretical foundations and real-world applications of machine learning models.

Nine new tenure-track faculty join Johns Hopkins Computer Science

Scaling Laws: AI and Energy: What do we know? What are we learning?

Oct 14, 2024 - Discussing the energy costs of artificial intelligence.

Scaling Laws: AI and Energy: What do we know? What are we learning?

We need a new Turing test to assess AI’s real-world knowledge

Oct 29, 2025 - A fresh set of benchmarks could help specialists to better understand artificial intelligence.

We need a new Turing test to assess AI’s real-world knowledge