The Penn ASSET Center Advances Trustworthy AI with Support from AWS
Apr. 9, 2025 - As AI continues to evolve, its integration into safety-critical domains, such as autonomous vehicles or medical diagnosis tools, has raised pressing concerns.
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NCEMS working groups to answer molecular and cellular bioscience questions | Penn State University
Apr. 9, 2025 - The NSF National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences at Penn State formed 10 initial working groups, which will conduct research in accordance with open science principles, producing peer-reviewed articles, public datasets, reproducible workflows and other forms of openly shared knowledge to advance molecular sciences.
‘Constantly on defense’: Brown Professors discuss data preservation, integrity under Trump
Apr. 7, 2025 - Five professors across many disciplines spoke at the “Data in the Trump/DOGE Era” panel.
Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
Apr. 9, 2025 - A new multimodal tool combines a LLM with powerful graph-based AI models to efficiently find new, synthesizable molecules with desired properties, based on a user’s queries in plain language.
Wharton professor cited in Accenture report on organizational structures in age of generative AI
Apr. 9, 2025 - The report introduced AI as representing a "fundamentally different way of working" and drew on the company's "firsthand" experience with AI reinvention to explore questions of how organizations adapt workflows, prepare workers, and create new approaches to organization design.
CRA and Microsoft Launch New Fellowship to Advance Trustworthy AI Research
Apr. 3, 2025 - The Computing Research Association (CRA), with support from Microsoft, is pleased to announce the launch of the CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship.
Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science
Apr. 7, 2025 - Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.
Penn State to launch new National Security Institute
Apr. 4, 2025 - The new National Security Institute will advance and facilitate research outside the scope of the Applied Research Laboratory to address critical security challenges facing the nation and the world.
Tech Entrepreneur TJ Thinakaran Prioritizes Principles & People
Apr. 1, 2025 - There are many ways to describe TJ Thinakaran.
UUtah Hackathon - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
Apr. 7, 2025 - This hackathon invites participants to create AI-powered solutions for air quality across the Wasatch Front addressing pressing challenges in predicting poor air quality.
UvA Data Science Centre: Highlights 2024
Apr. 4, 2025 - The UvA Data Science Centre looks back on the achievements of 2024.
UC San Diego Professor Explores Academia’s Role in AI’s Evolution at Major National Conference
Apr. 3, 2025 - At the inaugural HumanX conference in Las Vegas, David Danks, a UC San Diego professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Policy and national expert in AI ethics, shared insights on the evolving international landscape of AI and the industry's unique dynamics.
Notre Dame Data Science Students Dive into AI & Ethics at January Immersion
Apr. 2, 2025 - The University of Notre Dame's Online Master's in Data Science program recently held its January Immersion at AT&T's global headquarters in Dallas.
WATCH: Princeton AI Lab Distinguished Lecture Series Continues with Exploration of How Humans Communicate with Machines
Apr. 3, 2025 - As AI becomes increasingly complex, new language is needed to help improve communication between humans and machines, Google DeepMind senior staff research scientist Been Kim told a standing-room-only crowd in Robertson Hall’s Arthur Lewis Auditorium.
BU CDS Assistant Professor Kira Goldner Receives NSF CAREER Award
Apr. 3, 2025 - Kira Goldner’s research on Multidimensional Utility Maximization when Ordeals are Payments rethinks existing systems by developing rigorous, data-driven methods to handle incentives and allocate resources efficiently.
NJIT Computing Student Earns Spot in One of the World's Most Competitive
Mar. 31, 2025 - Haley Patel, an undergraduate computer science student in the Ying Wu College of Computing, recently represented NJIT at Stanford University's TreeHacks 2025.
Texas A&M | Dr. Sabit Ekin Joins TAMIDS as Research Coordination Fellow
Apr. 1, 2025 - TAMIDS is excited to share that Dr. Sabit Ekin has joined our team as a Research Coordination Fellow. Dr. Ekin is an Associate Professor in the Texas A&M Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | MIDAS Faculty Affiliates Named as 2024 AAAS Fellows
Apr. 2, 2025 - MIDAS congratulates Mark S. Daskin, Margaret C. Levenstein, Sally Oey, Arvind Rao, and Stephen Smith who have earned election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2024.
UC Berkeley | Steering AI for the good of humanity
Apr. 2, 2025 - As an undergraduate mathematics student 14 years ago, Jacob Steinhardt began to consider a future where artificial intelligence would automate most cognitive work, which he thought could have an even bigger impact than the Industrial Revolution.
UVA SDS Professors Baek and Gates Win $900K Award from NNSA to Advance Physics-Informed Machine Learning
Apr. 2, 2025 - Under the grant award, the team will use data science theories and methods to contribute to the safe storage, monitoring, and handling of energetic materials.
How AI Is Transforming Climate Change Prediction And Mitigation
Apr. 1, 2025 - During a recent event hosted by the University of Virginia, a panel of experts discussed how AI is transforming climate change prediction, risk modeling, and mitigation - while balancing energy use, equity, and transparency in deployment.
Brown Computational Biology Undergrad Awarded Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Apr. 2, 2025 - Skylar Walters, an undergraduate concentrator at CCMB, has a bright future ahead of her in computational biology research.
Wayne State University Receives $50M for New Engineering College
Apr. 4, 2025 - A record-breaking alumni donation will be used to drive research in mobility, energy storage, AI and other growing fields by supporting doctoral fellowships, undergraduate student experiences and recruitment efforts.
Exclusive: American University's business school launches new "applied AI" institute
Apr. 3, 2025 - The goal is to weave AI into every aspect of business education.
Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data
Apr. 3, 2025 - The firm created a user-owned network that allows individuals to upload their data and govern how they are used to train AI models.
UPenn Wharton announces new major, concentration in artificial intelligence
Apr. 3, 2025 - The new AI program will be jointly administered by the Statistics and Data Science Department and the Operations, Information and Decisions Department with support from the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative.
Duke researchers provide building data contributing to clearest picture of global greenhouse emissions
Mar. 31, 2025 - Dubbed Climate TRACE, the database maps human-produced emissions around the world to help policymakers craft more effective strategies for reducing global emissions.
A Bit (or Qubit) About Quantum Computing: Q&A with Mark Horowitz
Mar. 27, 2025 - Mark Horowitz, who chaired a 2019 National Academies report on the subject, answered questions about quantum computing and progress in the field since the report’s release.
In the mind of the machine: U of T researcher explores AI’s most existential questions
Mar. 31, 2025 - When Karina Vold began her postdoctoral research in 2017, the idea of focusing on philosophy and the still emerging field of AI drew quizzical looks.
Elevating the Quantum@MIT Initiative
Mar. 31, 2025 - An initiative is now taking shape, thanks to her support and the vision and input of faculty and researchers across the School of Science, School of Engineering, and Schwarzman College of Computing.