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Brown leads the charge in tech & AI policy education with new summer program

Aug 18, 2025 - The Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR)’s Tech & Policy Summer School brings together a new generation of technology policymakers to bridge the gap between technical experts and lawmakers.

#Brown #AI #ADSA member #policy

Brown leads the charge in tech & AI policy education with new summer program

Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome

Aug 18, 2025 - Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of artificial-intelligence tools.

#bioinformatics #ChatGPT

Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome

AI is already displacing these jobs

Aug 18, 2025 - Any disruption from AI is so far hitting farther afield, the MIT findings suggest.

#AI #employment #MIT

AI is already displacing these jobs

Applications Now Open for $60,000 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Awards

Aug 13, 2025 - The application deadline for the 2026-2027 academic year is Monday, Sept. 15, 2025.

#Nvidia #graduate #funding

Applications Now Open for $60,000 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Awards

Pomona College | A Unified Framework for Random Forest Prediction Error Estimation

Aug 12, 2025 - Jo Hardin, professor of math and statistics and Hardison Chair of analytical thinking, explores how Random Forest prediction model works.

#Pomona College #data science #machine learning #statistics #math

Pomona College | A Unified Framework for Random Forest Prediction Error Estimation

AI Research and Real-World Impact Take Shape at UMW's Center for AI and the Liberal Arts

Aug 11, 2025 - UMW’s Center for AI and the Liberal Arts will serve as a hub for research, teaching and public engagement.

#AI #University of Mary Washington

AI Research and Real-World Impact Take Shape at UMW's Center for AI and the Liberal Arts

AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back

Aug 12, 2025 - Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.

#GAI

AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back

Schmidt Sciences joins global research effort to safeguard AI

Jul 30, 2025 - UK AISI, Canada AISI, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, and others collaborate to offer grants, computational power and venture capital to build trust in AI

#AI #aws #Schmidt #funding #United Kingdom (UK)

Schmidt Sciences joins global research effort to safeguard AI

UPittsburgh | A Responsible Data Science project will explore extreme human altruism

Aug 7, 2025 - The Pitt initiative will collaborate with the Carnegie Hero Fund to make its 121 years of data on heroes available to researchers.

#University of Pittsburgh #ADSA member #dssg

UPittsburgh | A Responsible Data Science project will explore extreme human altruism

Scaling Deep Learning Education in a College of Arts & Sciences

Aug 7, 2025 - "I hope our experience will be useful to educators designing similar courses beyond traditional CS and engineering programs."

#University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #computer science #statistics #education #pedagogy #AI #Python

Scaling Deep Learning Education in a College of Arts & Sciences

More scientific papers being written with help of ChatGPT—especially in computer science

Aug 5, 2025 - A steady increase in the likely use of ChatGPT was observed across multiple topics of study, with the most dramatic being computer science—a notably AI-adjacent discipline.

#computer science #GAI #ChatGPT

More scientific papers being written with help of ChatGPT—especially in computer science

Why AI leaderboards are inaccurate and how to fix them

Jul 29, 2025 - Faulty ranking mechanisms used in AI leaderboards can be overcome through approaches evaluated at the University of Michigan.

#AI #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Why AI leaderboards are inaccurate and how to fix them

UK Royal Society adopts ‘subscribe to open’ publishing model

Aug 6, 2025 - Eight of its journals will publish papers open access each year they earn sufficient library revenue.

#Royal Society #open science #open source

UK Royal Society adopts ‘subscribe to open’ publishing model

Opinion: Utah's innovation ensures U.S. AI dominance

Aug 6, 2025 - Utah's public-private partnerships set a new standard for AI innovation — and the nation is following suit.

#University of Utah #ADSA member #policy #AI

Opinion: Utah's innovation ensures U.S. AI dominance

AI chatbots can run with medical misinformation, study finds, highlighting the need for stronger safeguards

Aug 6, 2025 - A new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai finds that widely used AI chatbots are highly vulnerable to repeating and elaborating on false medical information.

#healthcare #GAI

AI chatbots can run with medical misinformation, study finds, highlighting the need for stronger safeguards

SFSU New Undergraduate Certificate in Generative Artificial Intelligence: Technology, Applications, and Ethics

Aug 5, 2025 - The Department of Computer Science is proud to announce the launch of a new Undergraduate Certificate in Generative Artificial Intelligence: Technology, Applications, and Ethics, beginning in Fall 2026.

#San Francisco State University #undergrad #certificate #GAI #ethics

SFSU New Undergraduate Certificate in Generative Artificial Intelligence: Technology, Applications, and Ethics

Penn State Master of AI grad begins ‘dream job’ in space industry as AI research engineer

Jul 21, 2025 - For his master's degree in AI, Nicholas Gahman explored new frontiers in technology, such as integrating machine learning into cybersecurity as part of his capstone project.

#Penn State #AI #cyber #machine learning

Penn State Master of AI grad begins ‘dream job’ in space industry as AI research engineer

Helping data storage keep up with the AI revolution

Aug 4, 2025 - Cloudian, co-founded by MIT alumnus Michael Tso, has created a storage system to help businesses feed data-hungry AI models and agents at scale.

#MIT #data #AI #database

Helping data storage keep up with the AI revolution

Is data advancing science at the cost of deeper insight?

Aug 4, 2025 - Neuroscientist Grace Huckins argues that while powerful AI tools and vast datasets are driving practical advances, they may not be deepening our understanding of the universe.

#Stanford #AI #data #sociotechnical systems

Is data advancing science at the cost of deeper insight?

Where is all the NIH data? A Landscape Analysis of the 150 NIH Repositories and the Path Beyond the Mountains

Jul 31, 2025 - 'Less is more' when establishing repositories that help scientists easily find and securely access distinct data types for their research. This level of cross architecture coordination and federation will require support from both research grantors and recipients.

#data #NIH #open science #Baylor University #MIT

Where is all the NIH data? A Landscape Analysis of the 150 NIH Repositories and the Path Beyond the Mountains

Open-Access Publishing in a Global Context

Aug 6, 2025 - The number and share of Open-access (OA) articles has grown since 2003 from an infrequent type of peer-reviewed publication to almost half of global publications in 2022.

#open science #NSF #data

Open-Access Publishing in a Global Context

Georgetown Formal Response — MDI’s Response to NSF Request for Information on Key Technology Areas for TIP

Jul 31, 2025 - The Massive Data Institute and the Department of Computer at Georgetown University offered comments in response to the NSF’s Request for Information on Key Technology Focus Areas for TIP

#NSF #Georgetown University #data science #policy

Georgetown Formal Response — MDI’s Response to NSF Request for Information on Key Technology Areas for TIP

UTSA School of Data Science to transition into new research center

Aug 1, 2025 - A planned new UTSA Center for Data Science is set to continue building on the school’s legacy, with the official transition taking effect on Sept. 1.

#UT San Antonio #ADSA member

UTSA School of Data Science to transition into new research center

Fifth Annual UC Irvine ICS Project Expo Continues to Grow ‘Bigger and Better’

Aug 1 ,2025 - What made the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences ICS Project Expo unique in 2025?

#UC Irvine #ADSA member

Fifth Annual UC Irvine ICS Project Expo Continues to Grow ‘Bigger and Better’

Emory | AI reveals unexpected new physics in dusty plasma

Jul 30, 2025 - Physicists used AI to discover new natural laws governing dusty plasma, found everywhere from Saturn’s rings to the Earth’s ionosphere.

#physics #AI #Emory University #astronomy

Emory | AI reveals unexpected new physics in dusty plasma

MTSU | 2025-26 Data Science Student Steve and Kathy Anderson Scholarship Winners

Aug 1, 2025 - This highly competitive scholarship recognizes outstanding students in the MTSU Data Science program who have demonstrated exceptional academic achievement, passion for data science, and a commitment to making a meaningful impact here at MTSU.

#MTSU #ADSA member

MTSU | 2025-26 Data Science Student Steve and Kathy Anderson Scholarship Winners

Speeding up research at Princeton’s annual Open Hackathon

Jul 28, 2025 - From June 10-13, Princeton hosted its seventh Open Hackathon, bringing together nine teams of participants from campus and off-campus research groups to collaborate both in-person and virtually.

#Princeton #Nvidia #partnership #computer science

Speeding up research at Princeton’s annual Open Hackathon

Research from NJIT and Yale Leads to Trio of Computing Innovations

Jul 29, 2025 -NJIT Distinguished Professor David Bader said the inspiration for a joint $540,000 National Science Foundation grant, “Scalable Algorithmic and Software Foundations for Subgraph Counting and Enumeration," is that existing pattern-finding science is struggling to keep pace with modern data sets.

#NJIT #ADSA member #Yale #NSF #data

Research from NJIT and Yale Leads to Trio of Computing Innovations

UC San Diego HDSI Assistant Professor Hao Zhang Receives Google Junior Faculty Award

Jul 30, 2025 - Hao Zhang of the University of California San Diego has received an inaugural 2025 Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award in recognition of the significance and promise of his work in machine learning, systems, and LLMs.

#UC San Diego #google #machine learning #LLM #ADSA member

UC San Diego HDSI Assistant Professor Hao Zhang Receives Google Junior Faculty Award

U-M Ann Arbor | Twenty-two papers by CSE researchers at ACL 2025

Aug 1, 2025 - CSE authors are presenting new research in computational linguistics on topics ranging from cross-species acoustic identification to multilingual moral reasoning.

#computer science #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

U-M Ann Arbor | Twenty-two papers by CSE researchers at ACL 2025