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New Conference at CSUB to Explore Ripple Effects of AI

Aug 25, 2025 - The inaugural NextTech Kern conference at Cal State Bakersfield in October, intended to be a community event, will explore how AI is set to affect education, businesses and digital safety.

#Cal State Bakersfield #AI #education

New Conference at CSUB to Explore Ripple Effects of AI

West Virginia College Partners With Industry to Create AI Program

Aug 26, 2025 - Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College will create workforce-aligned AI education pathways with input from IBM and Northrop Grumman on which competencies are most needed by employers.

#Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College #AI #undergrad #community college #IBM

West Virginia College Partners With Industry to Create AI Program

NCSU | The Strength of Interdisciplinary Ties: Leveraging Social Connections in Data Science and AI Education

Aug 26, 2025 - From classrooms to careers: how human connection is shaping success in data science and AI education at NC State.

#NCSU #data science #education #AI #Sociology #ADSA member

NCSU | The Strength of Interdisciplinary Ties: Leveraging Social Connections in Data Science and AI Education

R&D Spending at Federally Funded R&D Centers Surpassed $31 Billion in FY 2024

Aug 26, 2025 - The nation’s 42 FFRDCs spent $31.7 billion on R&D in FY 2024, an increase of $2.4 billion from FY 2023.

#data #NSF

R&D Spending at Federally Funded R&D Centers Surpassed $31 Billion in FY 2024

Teaching and Testing in the AI Era: Rethinking Student Evaluation at the 2025 CRA Summit

Aug 25, 2025 - How can colleges and universities ensure that students are actually learning — and that faculty are equipped to teach — in this new reality?

#CRA #AI #education

Teaching and Testing in the AI Era: Rethinking Student Evaluation at the 2025 CRA Summit

CCC Releases a New Whitepaper on Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research

Aug 25, 2025 - The paper emphasizes that exploring high-risk, long-term research areas such as these is crucial for sustained AI progress.

#CRA #AI #research

CCC Releases a New Whitepaper on Envisioning Possible Futures for AI Research

CS vs. AI: Degrees of Debate at the 2025 CRA Summit on AI Undergraduate Education

Aug 25, 2025 - Should artificial intelligence (AI) be taught as a specialization within computer science, or offered as a standalone degree?

#undergrad #AI #curriculum #computer science #degree

CS vs. AI: Degrees of Debate at the 2025 CRA Summit on AI Undergraduate Education

Infographic: Computing Bachelor’s Enrollment Continues to Grow Even as the Field Evolves

Aug 25, 2025 - New student enrollment increased by 9.9 percent across Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information fields among departments reporting data for both this year and last.

#CRA #data #undergrad #computer science #engineering #information science

Infographic: Computing Bachelor’s Enrollment Continues to Grow Even as the Field Evolves

CCC at the 2025 CRA Summit: Shaping the Future of AI in Academia and Research

Aug 25. 2025 - CCC members helped chart a course for how the computing research community can prepare educators, students, and researchers for an AI-driven future.

#AI #CRA #education #graduate

CCC at the 2025 CRA Summit: Shaping the Future of AI in Academia and Research

2025 CRA Summit Recap – AI Education and Computing Research at a Defining Moment

Aug 25, 2025 - Over the course of the week, attendees from academia, industry, and government explored how AI is reshaping computing research, undergraduate and graduate education, and workforce development.

#CRA #AI #education #undergrad #curriculum #graduate

2025 CRA Summit Recap – AI Education and Computing Research at a Defining Moment

University of Oxford | Using AI to reclassify multiple sclerosis progression

Aug 20, 2025 - This model is based on the largest collection of clinical trial data (Novartis-Oxford MS dataset) from people living with MS.

#AI #biomedical #University of Oxford

University of Oxford | Using AI to reclassify multiple sclerosis progression

UC Berkeley | A Summer of Collaboration at BIDS

Aug 21, 2025 - "Admiration for the people, for the work, and for the ways those two things intersect at UC Berkeley."

#ADSA member #UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley | A Summer of Collaboration at BIDS

UVA SDS | Ph.D. Student Profile: Yuyang Cheng

Aug 19, 2025 - From Chengdu to Charlottesville, Ph.D. student Yuyang Cheng is advancing human-centered AI and trustworthy machine learning at UVA.

#university of virginia #ADSA member #AI #machine learning

UVA SDS | Ph.D. Student Profile: Yuyang Cheng

UChicago Data Night: Fostering Chicago’s Data Community

Aug 22, 2025 - The monthly series bridges research and practical applications between industry, community, academia, and the public sector.

#UChicago #ADSA member

UChicago Data Night: Fostering Chicago’s Data Community

Brown CCMB team publishes in Science on the evolutionary history of the MUC19 gene

Aug 22, 2025 - A team of researchers at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology published their recent findings in Science magazine.

#Brown #ADSA member

Brown CCMB team publishes in Science on the evolutionary history of the MUC19 gene

Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work

Aug 21, 2025 - Preprint examines how citations can influence the review process.

#Queensland University of Technology #science #open science

Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work

RDS@Pitt 2024-2025 Annual Report

Aug 21, 2025 - By empowering a positive digital future, RDS@Pitt will enhance success, engagement, safety, accountability, and trust throughout society.

#University of Pittsburgh #ADSA member #program management

RDS@Pitt 2024-2025 Annual Report

95% of organizations got zero return on AI investment in MIT study

Aug 21, 2025 - Companies are investing tens of billions of dollars in generative AI with little to show for it.

#GAI #business #MIT

95% of organizations got zero return on AI investment in MIT study

Understanding Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Data Science Instructors

Aug 19, 2025 - Despite the absence of national guidelines, participants demonstrated notable overlap in foundational IDS content, though some instructors felt less confident with advanced or specialized topics.

#data science #pedagogy #education #research

Understanding Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Data Science Instructors

Notre Dame and Johns Hopkins team up to bring digital privacy and AI literacy education to the Smithsonian

Aug 19, 2025 - The exhibit featured an interactive tool designed for children ages 6+ and was developed by researchers from the University of Notre Dame and Johns Hopkins University, as part of a multi-year NSF–funded project aimed at transforming how users and developers understand and engage with privacy.

#Notre Dame #ADSA member #JHU #NSF

Notre Dame and Johns Hopkins team up to bring digital privacy and AI literacy education to the Smithsonian

Notre Dame | Four faculty teams awarded 2025 Poverty Research Packages

Aug 15, 2025 - The Notre Dame Poverty Initiative has announced a new round of multi-year investments that will support high-impact, poverty-related research projects led by Notre Dame faculty in multiple disciplines.

#Notre Dame #ADSA member #dssg

Notre Dame | Four faculty teams awarded 2025 Poverty Research Packages

Dr. Sharad Sharma Named Inaugural Sinha Endowed Professor in Data Science

Aug 15, 2025 - Funded by a generous gift from Dr. Vikas Sinha and Mrs. Anuradha Sinha, this prestigious position supports transformative research and education at the intersection of data science and immersive technologies.

#University of North Texas

Dr. Sharad Sharma Named Inaugural Sinha Endowed Professor in Data Science

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks

Aug 20, 2025 - Researchers argue over whether ‘novel’ AI-generated works use others’ ideas without credit.

#computer science #sociotechnical systems #GAI #LLM #ethics

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks

Government health datasets altered without documentation

Aug 19, 2025 - The study finds that nearly half of the examined federal health datasets were altered. In most, the term "gender" was replaced with "sex."

#Trump #data #gender #Boston University #CDC #ethics

Government health datasets altered without documentation

A new model predicts how molecules will dissolve in different solvents

Aug 19, 2025 - This type of prediction could make it much easier to develop new ways to produce pharmaceuticals and other useful molecules.

#MIT #machine learning

A new model predicts how molecules will dissolve in different solvents

UT Austin to Lead the Next Gen of AI

Aug 6, 2025 - The NSF has reaffirmed its confidence in UT Austin by awarding the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML) a second round of funding, making it one of only five institutes nationwide to receive renewed investment.

#NSF #UT Austin #machine learning

UT Austin to Lead the Next Gen of AI

AI helps assemble ‘brain’ of future quantum computer

Aug 15, 2025 - As a demonstration, artificial-intelligence system helps to make a miniature, high-speed animation of physicists’ favorite feline.

#AI #quantum computing #University of Science and Technology of China

AI helps assemble ‘brain’ of future quantum computer

LinkedIn Top Colleges 2025: The 50 best colleges for long-term career success in the U.S.

Aug 12, 2025 - See the 2025 LinkedIn Top Colleges list, a data-backed ranking of the 50 best colleges for career success in the U.S.

#career #data #higher ed #Princeton #Duke University #UPenn #MIT #Cornell #Harvard #Babson College #Notre Dame #Darthmouth #Stanford #undergrad #AI #data science

LinkedIn Top Colleges 2025: The 50 best colleges for long-term career success in the U.S.

UNC Charlotte Appoints Abbey Thomas to Co-Direct Sports Analytics Program

Aug 12, 2025 - Associate Professor Abbey Thomas, is a certified athletic trainer with a passion for studying knee injuries, a background in biomechanics, and a devotion to creating new opportunities for Charlotte’s students.

#UNC Charlotte #ADSA member

UNC Charlotte Appoints Abbey Thomas to Co-Direct Sports Analytics Program

University of Illinois Chicago | Lu Cheng receives NSF CAREER grant to improve AI accuracy, reliability

Aug 14, 2025 - Assistant Professor Lu Cheng received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for her research into developing reliable and fair large language models, which are essential to responsible AI use.

#University of Illinois Chicago #computer science #AI #NSF

University of Illinois Chicago | Lu Cheng receives NSF CAREER grant to improve AI accuracy, reliability