Comparative lit class will be first in Humanities Division to use UCLA-developed AI system
The textbook for Zrinka Stahuljak’s winter 2025 course is generated by the Kudu platform.
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Fourth ASA Survey of Bachelor’s Graduates Tracks Rapidly Evolving Job Market | Amstat News
With the emergence of data science, machine learning, and AI, much has changed in the job market since the American Statistical Association’s first follow-up survey of bachelor’s graduates in 2017.
NJIT | YWCC Students Score in Top 20 at ICPC Regional Competition
Dec. 3, 2024 - The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) Programming Club scored in the top 20 for two of their four teams among 83 competitors from some of the most prestigious institutions in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Ida Sim: A healthcare pioneer transforming how data works for patients
Ida Sim has spent her career pioneering ways to make medical data more open and shareable. She helped pave the way for more accessible health data. Now, she wants CPH to train the next generation to harness artificial intelligence to develop more precise, personalized treatments. Through it all, she’s kept her role as a primary care doctor central to her work.
Columbia DSI | AI, FemTech, and the Future of Women’s Health: Key Insights from Leading Innovators
Dec. 3, 2024 - Experts at Columbia University explored how AI and FemTech are revolutionizing women’s health through inclusive research, funding, and collaboration.
AI Faculty Cluster Hire | University at Albany
North Carolina Community Colleges Lead the Way with Cutting-Edge Programs: From Electric Vehicles to AI and Drone Operations - NCCCS
UMass Amherst CDS | Data Core to Develop a Generative AI Playground for Amherst Community
Data Core is leading an exciting initiative to make generative AI accessible across the UMass Amherst campus.
BROWN | CS and CNTR PhD Student Rui-Jie Yew and Collaborators Receive a 2024 AAAI/ACM AIES Paper Award
Nov. 18, 2024 - Second year PhD student Rui-Jie Yew was recently recognized as runner-up for Best Student Paper at the Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) Conference in San Jose at the end of October.
Announcing Four Faculty Special Projects Fund Awards
Oct. 24, 2024 - The Harvard Data Science Initiative has recently granted four new Faculty Special Projects Fund awards to Harvard University faculty.
UNC Chapel Hill | Data science seed fund spurs innovation, collaboration across campus, continents
Nov. 11, 2024 - This fall, researchers, philosophers, lawyers and students from 21 institutions around the world convened at UNC Chapel Hill for a conference to discuss how to harness artificial intelligence (AI) to address critical issues in society.
It’s Here! Check Out the 2024 CRA Academic Member Book
The Computing Research Association (CRA) is thrilled to celebrate the release of the 2024 Academic Member Book!
URochester | Using AI to advance child development and learning
Nov. 14, 2024 - The University of Rochester researcher is developing technology to help deaf and hard of hearing kids benefit from artificial intelligence.
UW-Madison DSI | AI for Science Seminar: AI for the Working Mathematician
Nov. 12, 2025 - DSI is launching a new seminar series focused on AI for Science, which will highlight advances in science fueled by machine learning and AI as well as advances in AI inspired by scientific challenges. Our inaugural speaker is François Charton, a research engineer at Meta AI.
UMN DSI | Congratulations to Dr. Genevieve Melton-Meaux on Her Election to the National Academy of Medicine
Dr. Genevieve Melton-Meaux, Professor in the Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery and Co-Chair of the Data Science Initiative, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
Mississippi State to Teach Students to Build, Train AI Systems
A $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant will help train a cohort of 60 Mississippi State University students to develop artificial intelligence systems capable of analyzing digital images.
Vanderbilt DSI | Experts discuss the future of AI at congressional briefing
Nov. 12, 2024 - Vanderbilt's Data Science Institute Director Jesse Spencer-Smith joined retired General Paul Nakasone at a congressional briefing to provide crucial insights on artificial intelligence capabilities and challenges.
PhD in Data Science : Mathematical Sciences : UTEP
The university trying to bring AI to every industry
AI degrees took off in 2018, when Carnegie Mellon University introduced what’s regarded as the first undergraduate AI major.
Flagged for Being Queer - USC Viterbi | School of Engineering
USC ISI researchers uncover bias in content moderation, specifically, how LLMs misinterpret gender-nonconforming speech.
UCI | Celebration of Teaching: ICS Honorees
Nov. 4, 2024 - Three faculty members from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) were recognized for their excellence in undergraduate teaching
UW–Madison | Researchers find persistent problems with AI-assisted genomic studies
Nov. 4, 2024 - Researchers are increasingly attempting to work around this problem by bridging data gaps with ever more sophisticated AI tools.
UM-Ann Arbor | MIDAS Intensifies Efforts to Build Cross-Sector Collaboration for AI in Science and Society
Nov. 5, 2024 - New projects at the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society mark its intensified effort to help academia, industry, government and community collaborate with each other to shape AI for the benefits of science and society.
Students and staff question UMich AI investments
Over 50 University of Michigan students, staff and community members attended a hybrid workshop about artificial intelligence’s current impact
UC San Diego Launches Data-Sharing Resource for Wildfire Research
A new data-sharing platform at UC San Diego will bring the latest research and technology on wildfire ecology into one place, allowing researchers, government officials and other experts to collaborate on solutions.
Statistics and Biostatistics Degree Data | ASA
Number of Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral Degrees Awarded for Statistics and Biostatistics back to 1987
UW-Madison | MadPrompts 2024 highlights generative AI during Wisconsin Science Festival
Nov. 7, 2024 - Following the success of MadPrompts 2023, the first generative artificial intelligence (AI) prompt battle on an American university campus, WARF and the UW-Madison DSI hosted MadPrompts 2024 on Oct. 18 in the Discovery Building’s H.F. DeLuca Forum.
Central Connecticut State's 'AI Corridor' Features Holograms, Robots
CCSU is the first university in the U.S. to work with AI companies on developing a holographic synthetic human, and the first to integrate it alongside students and faculty.
Diversity in Backgrounds, Careers a Major Theme in Survey of Master’s Graduates | Amstat News
The 2023 statistics and biostatistics master’s graduates who responded to the ASA follow-up survey in spring 2024 came to their graduate program with undergraduate majors in 45 fields and then—in an embodiment of John Tukey’s quote, “The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard”—diverged into careers and studies in a variety of sectors, regions, and fields.
AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
UW researchers tested three open-source, large language models (LLMs) and found they favored resumes from white-associated names 85% of the time, and female-associated names 11% of the time. Over the 3 million job, race and gender combinations tested, Black men fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.