Be Careful What You Tell Your AI Chatbot
Oct 15, 2025 - A Stanford study reveals that leading AI companies are pulling user conversations for training, highlighting privacy risks and a need for clearer policies.
Higher Ed News
Making Machine Learning Safer in High-Stakes Settings
Oct 20, 2025 - A recent report and webinar explored how to improve the performance and safety of machine learning in these settings.
How Chinese paper mills use AI to create ‘higher quality’ academic fraud
Oct 15, 2025 - Paper mills that sell authorship or fabricate entire papers are a staple of China’s competitive academic landscape.
AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?
Oct 20, 2025 - Chatbots now ace the mathematician's famous imitation game, but imitation never equalled intelligence.
Baltimore residents protest Johns Hopkins University's plan to build data, A.I. center
Oct 15, 2025 - A group of North Baltimore residents says they are fed up with Johns Hopkins University, claiming it isn't a good neighbor to the people who live near its campuses.
Harvard’s operations lost $112.6M in FY25 amid Trump’s pressure campaign
Oct 17, 2025 - President Alan Garber called fiscal 2025 extraordinarily challenging for the Ivy League university "even by the standards of our centuries-long history."
Large language models prioritize helpfulness over accuracy in medical contexts
Oct 17, 2025 - Mass General Brigham researchers highlight the ‘sycophantic’ tendency of artificial intelligence tools like GPT4, which consistently complied with requests that would produce false medical information
AI analysis of world’s largest heart attack datasets opens way to new treatment strategies
Oct 16, 2025 - A landmark international study led by the University of Zurich has shown that artificial intelligence can assess patient risk for the most common type of heart attack more accurately than existing methods.
Modernizing Academic Reward Systems for an Open and Engaged Future
Oct 15, 2025 - The initiative poses an important question: how can academic institutions align their systems for hiring, review, promotion, and tenure with the values expressed in their mission and vision statements?
AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers
Oct 19, 2025 - In July 2024, the ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers Task Force was created to develop comprehensive AI competencies for library workers that align with the evolving needs of academic libraries in the context of AI integration.
Broadening Access to Data Science Education in High School and Higher Education through Open Source Tools, Infrastructure, and Training
Oct 16, 2025 - Equitable data science education requires a multifaceted approach, involving high school and higher education, community involvement, and accessible tools.
Brown PhD admissions paused in at least six humanities, social science departments
Oct 15, 2025 - Faculty and graduate students expressed disappointment and frustration at the decision.
Americans are losing faith in higher education system
Oct 16, 2025 - A Pew survey found seven in 10 Americans feel the higher education system is "generally going" in the wrong direction.
University of Pennsylvania rejects Trump’s higher education compact
Oct 16, 2025 - The Ivy League institution became the third college to decline the offer of priority for federal research funding in exchange for sweeping policy changes.
ND Lucy Family Institute researchers receive NSF award to promote AI skills and STEM career pathways
Oct 14, 2025 - Researchers with the University of Notre Dame’s Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society have received an award of nearly $1 million from the NSF.
Georgia Tech Prestigious Fellows Bring Industry Experience to School of IC
Oct 15, 2025 - Three first-year Ph.D. students in the School of Interactive Computing (IC) are bridging academia and industry through prestigious fellowship programs.
Maastricht DigiMach: Digital Transformation of the Machining Value Chain for Sustainable Growth
Oct 15, 2025 - DigiMach is a transnational 3-year collaborative approach that will transform manufacturing across the Meuse-Rhine region by bringing AI, IoT and robotics to small and medium-sized enterprises in the machining sector.
College of Connected Computing launches ‘Plot Twist’ series to offer students advice about successful technology careers
Oct 15, 2025 - The College of Connected Computing has developed a new speaker series called “Plot Twist” that invites Vanderbilt alumni from various backgrounds to share stories with current students about their paths to becoming technology leaders.
University of Illinois Chicago | Saeed Boorboor joins CS faculty
Oct 16, 2025 - His research is centered on immersive visualization, providing color, meaning, and significance to data. He focuses specifically on scientific visualization and broadly on biomedical data.
University of Oxford Study sets new data benchmark for trustworthy antibody AI
Oct 13, 2025 - The study, published in Nature Computational Science, shows that building AI that can reliably predict how molecular changes affect antibody performance will require experimental datasets orders of magnitude larger than those currently available.
Truth Mjumbe launches AI-powered tool to preserve memory and dignity
Oct 15, 2025 - Professional counseling student at Penn GSE Truth Mjumbe built Recall Aid, an AI-powered memory-support platform inspired by his own experience with epilepsy, his grandfather’s dementia, and his father’s work preserving civil rights histories.
Penn State University Informatics doctoral program provides interdisciplinary opportunities for graduates
Oct 13, 2025 - Three recent graduates of the informatics doctoral program at the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology demonstrate how the program's interdisciplinary nature prepares them for a range of post-graduate pursuits.
USF Herd of Thunder
Oct 16, 2025 - A dozen students in the band are part of the newly launched Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.
UC San Diego CAIDA and Internet2 Collaborate for Internet Security Project to Benefit U.S. Education and Research Networks
Oct 16, 2025 - Scientists share vast amounts of data across institutions and borders, but hidden internet routing problems can quietly send that data off course — slowing research or exposing information to unintended parties.
Princeton AI Lab Welcomes Associate Research Scholars
Oct 14, 2024 - The scholars will be supporting the ongoing research at PLI to develop an understanding of large language models and enable their application to research and education.
NJIT Researcher Fortifies Virtual Reality Tech for Cancer Patient
Oct 14, 2025 - Virtual reality expert Erin Truesdell, in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, is designing a new kind of user interaction technology that could help cancer patients and caregivers prepare for potential complications due to fevers.
UC San Diego HDSI Industry-Mentor Capstone Fosters Benefits for Students and Employers
Oct 16, 2025 - Since it was founded in 2018, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute has been providing an opportunity for students and industry leaders to come together and tackle the growing demand for data science and AI innovation and utilization.
Computer scientist Mark Dredze named director of Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute
Oct 13, 2025 - Pioneering computer scientist named director of institute dedicated to harnessing the power of AI to translate data-driven discovery into real-world impact
Getting ready for JupyterCon 2025: How UC Berkeley is Using Jupyter to Support Healthcare providers, Geospatial Data, and Data Science Education
Oct 15, 2025 - The Open Platforms For Health project - a collaboration between Computational Precision Health and BIDS and led by Ida Sim and Fernando Pérez - will present JupyterHealth: Bridging Wearables, Clinical Data, & Computational Workflows in the Jupyter Ecosystem.
UChicago Welcoming the Fourth Cohort of Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellows
Sep 29, 2025 - The Data Science Institute is excited to welcome the fourth cohort of Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellows.