Notre Dame hosts Vatican AI adviser, Carnegie Mellon professor during AI ethics conference
Oct 9, 2025 - The panelists said an ethical approach to AI starts with including diverse voices at every level of development and implementation.
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UC Berkeley Social Sciences D-Lab supports fellowship to expand accessibility to data science education
Sep 30, 2025 - In partnership with the Berkeley School of Education and the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the 2-year Berkeley Data Science Education Fellowship provides 3 postdocs with monthly skill-building workshops, teaching opportunities and multidisciplinary research opportunities.
MIT | Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress
Oct 10, 2025 - Innovator, futurist, author, and MIT alumnus Ray Kurzweil emphasized his optimism about AI and technological progress in a lecture at MIT while accepting the Robert A. Muh Alumni Award from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
From Founding SDS to Leading DSBA: Dr. Mirsad Hadžikadić’s Continuing Legacy at UNC Charlotte
Oct 8, 2025 - Dr. Hadžikadić envisions the creation of a Business Data Science Consortium, a collaborative hub that connects students’ skill sets with the real-world needs of Charlotte’s business community.
Willamette Faculty-student duo illuminate generative AI’s potential to transform computer science education
Oct 9, 2025 - Computer Science faculty member Fred Agbo collaborated with alum Chris Olivia BA’24 to publish new research on generative AI’s potential to reshape computing education.
Project aims to advance workforce readiness in molecular bioscience
Oct 10, 2025 - Assoc. Prof. Anne Brown is teaming with Prof. Ashley McDonald at Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo to enhance the technical and practical data science skills of students studying molecular bioscience.
Eva Dyer is listening to the brain’s code with a little help from AI
Oct 10, 2025 - Penn professor Eva Dyer merges her background in music and audio engineering with AI to help uncover brain signals and explore how the brain processes information.
Pitt Welcoming the 2025-2026 RDS Scholars Cohort
Oct 7, 2025 - This program provides students with opportunities to engage in interdisciplinary training, collaborative projects, and responsible data science practices that connect classroom learning with real-world challenges.
Emory | Artificial Intelligence and the Extended Workday
Oct 6, 2025 - New research from Goizueta’s Wei Jiang reveals AI exposure can actually extend the workday instead of shortening it.
Utah SCI | Bill Miller Brings National Expertise to Advance Research Computing and Data at the U
Oct 7, 2025 - After over a decade of shaping advanced cyberinfrastructure at the NSF, William L. (Bill) Miller joined the University of Utah in September as the senior director for research computing and data
From classroom to command center: USF students test AI in real-world cybersecurity
Oct 9, 2025 - Their work explores ways AI can filter noise and streamline alerts, freeing students and professionals to tackle higher-level threats.
BU CDS Faculty Fellows
Oct 7, 2025 - Together, their research reflects the interdisciplinary strength of CDS, uniting data science with fields as diverse as biology, sustainability, and artificial intelligence.
GirlHacks 2025 Discovers Their 'Inner Goddess'
Oct 8, 2025 - Girlhacks 2025 continued its legacy of providing a place for women and non-binary students in technology to take the lead in bringing ideation to realization through its annual 24-hour Major League Hacking (MLH) sanctioned hackathon where everyone — including the men — are invited to compete.
NYU CDS | NLP Seminar and Text-as-Data Speaker Series
Oct 11, 2025 - Explore cutting-edge research in our NLP Seminar Series.
Columbia AI | What Does It Mean to Be Creative in the Age of AI?
Oct 2, 2025 - That question is reshaping careers and forcing a reckoning across industries, from advertising to journalism.
JHU Researchers develop AI tool to predict risk of vehicle crashes
Oct 7, 2025 - SafeTraffic Copilot, developed by Hopkins researchers, aims to provide experts with crash analyses, predictions to reduce the rising number of fatalities, injuries on U.S. roads each year
UUtah | New Faculty Member Rohan Basu Roy Wants to Make High Performance Computing Faster and Greener
Oct 10, 2025 Rohan Basu Roy joined the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute and the Kahlert School of Computing in July 2025, fresh off completing his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Northeastern University.
UW eScience | Pixel Proficiency: Practical Deep Learning for Images
Oct 11, 2025 - eScience Institute is offering this 6 session tutorial series on deep learning for images.
OSPO Monthly Meetup: Launching the BIDS membership of 2i2c
Oct 11, 2025 - BIDS is shaping the future of open source at UC Berkeley, building on its rich legacy of leadership in open source software development.
Inside UC San Diego’s Out-of-This-World Impact
Oct 9, 2025 - Explore 13 ways our research is extending past Earth’s atmosphere, from astronaut firsts to breakthroughs in orbit and discoveries across the cosmos.
UVA | Understanding the Brain to Improve Mental Health
Oct 6, 2025 - Assistant Professor of Data Science Aiying Zhang studies how brain development differs between boys and girls and what it means for autism and mental health.
Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots
Oct 8, 2025 - The current amount of data aren’t enough to teach a robot to be a helpful household or factory assistant.
UPenn DDD AI x Science Seminar: René Vidal
Oct 7, 2025 - This talk will present new insights into the learning dynamics of gradient flow in the feature-learning regime.
PSU | New seed grant program accepting proposals for multi-disciplinary research
Oct 7, 2025 - The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences has announced the new Mid-Scale Seed Grant Program.
HDSI Creating a Benchmark for Multi-Step Verified Programming
Oct 10, 2025 - Led by Nada Amin, this project aims to build the first large-scale benchmark for verified programming, uniting program synthesis and formal verification.
MIT | New prediction model could improve the reliability of fusion power plants
Oct 7, 2025 - These fusion machines use powerful magnets to contain a plasma hotter than the sun’s core and push the plasma’s atoms to fuse and release energy.
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MBZUAI launch international collaboration to shape the future of AI
Oct 3, 2025 - The new effort to strengthen the building blocks of artificial intelligence and accelerate its use in pressing scientific and societal challenges.
GT | IC Award Roundup: Regents’ Professor to be Recognized for Lasting Impact at CSCW
Oct 9, 2025 - The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) will award Regents’ Professor Amy Bruckman and three former Georgia Tech graduate students with its 2025 Lasting Impact Award.
Meet the 22 artists, scientists and authors who will each get $800,000 MacArthur genius grants
Oct 8, 2025 - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 class of fellows on Wednesday, a prize often called the “genius award.”
UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
Oct 9, 2025 - SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.