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What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution

Nov 24, 2025 - The advent of artificial intelligence might be just the latest stage in a guiding biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually dependent organisms.

#AI #google

What is the future of intelligence? The answer could lie in the story of its evolution

What’s Next for Bill Gropp

Nov 21, 2025 - Bill Gropp may be stepping down next month from his role as director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, but he’s not done having an impact on the HPC community.

#University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign #ADSA member #CRA

What’s Next for Bill Gropp

We Trained China’s AI Researchers. Now We Risk Being Surpassed in AI Innovation.

Nov 21, 2025 - SNotable Stanford classes are using Qwen models, as Chinese open-source models often surpass America’s in balancing cost and performance.

#China #policy #AI #GAI #open source

We Trained China’s AI Researchers. Now We Risk Being Surpassed in AI Innovation.

"Steampunk" Self-Learning Mechanical Circuits That Adapt to Their Environments | Stanford HAI

Nov 24, 2025 - Researchers at Stanford have invented a new type of self-powered mechanical circuits that learn. It could lead to new purely mechanical machines that understand and adapt to the changing world around them.

#Stanford University #engineering

"Steampunk" Self-Learning Mechanical Circuits That Adapt to Their Environments | Stanford HAI

Trump signs executive order launching Genesis Mission AI project

Nov 24, 2025 - The order announced the “Genesis Mission” for AI, a new federal push to mobilize the federal government's research and data to create artificial intelligence models.

#AI #data #Trump #policy

Trump signs executive order launching Genesis Mission AI project

UChicago | Data Movement Without Borders: Ian Foster and the Globus Team Honored with SC25’s Test of Time Award

Nov 13, 2025 - The Department of Computer Science congratulates Ian Foster and his collaborators on this recognition, celebrating an innovation that continues to support scientific progress and collaboration across disciplines.

#UChicago #ADSA member #data management #computing

UChicago | Data Movement Without Borders: Ian Foster and the Globus Team Honored with SC25’s Test of Time Award

Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia

Nov 18, 2025 - Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?

#research

Introducing the j-metric: a true measure of what matters in academia

UNC-CH School of Data Science and Society announces new professional degree programs

Nov 20, 2025 - The master's and doctorate in data science programs were approved at a Nov. 20 UNC Board of Governors meeting.

#UNC Chapel Hill #graduate #degree #data science #ADSA member

UNC-CH School of Data Science and Society announces new professional degree programs

Google DeepMind won a Nobel prize for AI: can it produce the next big breakthrough?

Nov 18, 2025 - The company was created to use AI for world- changing science — and achieved that with AlphaFold. But the advent of large language models raises deep questions about the future of DeepMind.

#DeepMind #AI #LLM

Google DeepMind won a Nobel prize for AI: can it produce the next big breakthrough?

Noah Smith named endowed chair and vice provost for artificial intelligence

Nov 18, 2025 - Noah Smith, a professor in the Allen School and senior director of Natural Language Processing research at the Allen Institute for AI, has agreed to serve as the University’s first vice provost and endowed chair for AI.

#University of Washington #AI

Noah Smith named endowed chair and vice provost for artificial intelligence

AI Science Conference at Caltech

Nov 19, 2025 - This event brought together leading researchers in core AI and domain sciences to lead conversations and drive partnerships that will shape future inquiry, industry investment, and entrepreneurial opportunities.

#CalTech #AI #UChicago

AI Science Conference at Caltech

Ohio State | Saving and preserving animal species with AI

Nov 12, 2025 - Ohio State’s Tanya Berger-Wolf explains how Imageomics — a new field at the intersection of AI and biology — is revealing hidden patterns in nature’s images, helping researchers better understand animal behavior and protect Earth’s biodiversity before it’s too late.

#AI #ecology #environment #Ohio State University #ADSA member

Ohio State | Saving and preserving animal species with AI

Ramapo College DMC Partners with South Brunswick High School on AI in Computer Science Education

Nov 18, 2025 - The DMC Center is collaborating with South Brunswick High School on a research project exploring how generative AI tools can support student learning in introductory computer science courses.

#Ramapo College #dssg #education #K12 #GAI

Ramapo College DMC Partners with South Brunswick High School on AI in Computer Science Education

The future of AI

Nov 14, 2025 - Artificial intelligence is flying high. Nature asked leading innovators what they think will happen next.

#AI #sociotechnical systems #policy

The future of AI

UNC-C SDS Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Dongsong Zhang

Nov 14, 2024 - The School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte is proud to highlight the leadership, scholarship, and impact of Dr. Dongsong Zhang.

#UNC Charlotte #ADSA member

UNC-C SDS Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Dongsong Zhang

UPenn Machine learning and the social sciences

Nov 14, 2024 - Daniel Gillion’s course teaches students without a coding background how to apply models to a wide range of problems across political science, economics, and sociology.

#UPenn #AI #social science

UPenn Machine learning and the social sciences

UCI | After Service, New Purpose: UC’s Student Veterans Find Their Next Mission: Amanda Lassiter

Nov 12, 2025 - Meet a few of UC’s veteran and active-duty students and alumni.

#UC Irvine #ADSA member

UCI | After Service, New Purpose: UC’s Student Veterans Find Their Next Mission: Amanda Lassiter

MTSU Predicting Workers’ Compensation Dispute Outcomes with Large Language Models

Nov 14, 2024 - Dr. Vajira Manathunga from MTSU’s Department of Mathematical Sciences talks about some of his work on applying LLM’s in actuarial science. His work compares the results from LLM to NLP pipelines.

#MTSU #ADSA member #LLM

MTSU Predicting Workers’ Compensation Dispute Outcomes with Large Language Models

CDS Affiliate John Byers Selected to Lead AIDA and Advise the Provost on AI Strategy for BU

Nov 14, 2025 - AIDA is dedicated to equipping faculty, staff, and students with the knowledge, tools, and critical frameworks to navigate the evolving landscape of generative AI.

#Boston University #ADSA member #AI

CDS Affiliate John Byers Selected to Lead AIDA and Advise the Provost on AI Strategy for BU

Second Cohort of UC San Diego’s 2025 Convene and Influence Awardees Announced

Nov 11, 2025 - Six new faculty-led teams have been selected as UC San Diego’s Fall 2025 Convene and Influence Awardees.

#UC San Diego #ADSA member

Second Cohort of UC San Diego’s 2025 Convene and Influence Awardees Announced

UVA SDS Faculty spotlight: Building smarter, safer systems for the real world

Nov 11, 2025 - Daniel Graham, an associate professor in the School of Data Science, studies how to build intelligent systems that are safe and reliable.

#university of virginia #ADSA member

UVA SDS Faculty spotlight: Building smarter, safer systems for the real world

Understanding the nuances of human-like intelligence

Nov 11, 2025 - Can we better understand ourselves if we better understand the artificial intelligence systems that are becoming a more significant part of our everyday lives?

#MIT #AI

Understanding the nuances of human-like intelligence

UChicago DSI Opens the Doors to Its New Home

Nov 14, 2025 - The new space represents both a milestone and a commitment to the DSI’s future.

#UChicago #ADSA member

UChicago DSI Opens the Doors to Its New Home

University of Michigan Plans $250M Biomedical Innovation Institute

Nov 14, 2025 - A major new institute under development at the University of Michigan will involve a five-year investment and focus on biological artificial intelligence, clinical trials and commercialization.

#FDA #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #biomedical #AI

University of Michigan Plans $250M Biomedical Innovation Institute

NC State Researchers to Develop Students’ Data Acumen with $1.1M NSF Grant

Nov 11, 2025 - A 3-year, $1.1 million project funded by the NSF Data Science Corps program will enable NC State researchers to leverage partnerships between data scientists, researchers, data science education experts and teachers to develop high school students’ data acumen, decision making using data and use of data tools.

#data science #K12 #data literacy #education #NCSU

NC State Researchers to Develop Students’ Data Acumen with $1.1M NSF Grant

Faculty and Student Voices from Cal Poly Humboldt: Data Science in Action (feat. Kamila Larripa, John Gerving, and Jonathan Juarez)

Nov 14, 2025 - this episode features Kamila Larripa, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science Program Lead at Cal Poly Humboldt, along with her former students John Gerving and Jonathan Juarez.

#UC Berkeley #Cal Poly Humboldt #data science #education #pedagogy

Faculty and Student Voices from Cal Poly Humboldt: Data Science in Action (feat. Kamila Larripa, John Gerving, and Jonathan Juarez)

Enhancing Statistical Literacy | Stats + Stories Episode 375

Nov 14, 2025 - What is statistical literacy? How do we measure it and teach it?

#statistics #education #policy #ASA

Enhancing Statistical Literacy | Stats + Stories Episode 375

NYU Establishes New School: The Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science

Nov 13, 2025 - With science and technology a strategic priority for NYU, new school will build on areas of renowned strength and further accelerate the university’s meteoric rise in research and Innovation .

#NYU #data science #computing

NYU Establishes New School: The Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

Nov 13, 2025 - A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack

#cyber #Claude #GAI #China

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

Why a researcher is building robots that look and act like bats

Nov 12, 2025 - These palm-sized robots use ultrasound signals to navigate harsh conditions in search and rescue missions.

#Worcester Polytechnic Institute #robotics #dssg

Why a researcher is building robots that look and act like bats