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Researchers consider innovative, inclusive ways to develop and scale computational health

May 7, 2025 - Researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco convened a conference to share progress and challenges in connecting disparate healthcare data to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes.

#UC Berkeley #UC San Francisco #data science #healthcare

Researchers consider innovative, inclusive ways to develop and scale computational health

Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings

May 1, 2025 - MIT researchers made a technique that improves the trustworthiness of machine-learning models, which could help improve the accuracy and reliability of AI predictions for high-stakes settings such health care.

#MIT #AI #healthcare

Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings

CEOs push AI and CS for high schoolers

May 5, 2025 - More than 200 CEOs signed a letter today urging state leaders to mandate artificial intelligence and computer science classes as a high school graduation requirement.

#computer science #K12 #policy #education #Trump #Nebraska #Nevada #Louisiana #Mississippi #Tennessee #Arkansas #South Carolina #north carolina #Indiana #West Virginia #Rhode Island #AI

CEOs push AI and CS for high schoolers

Data-driven ventures earn $100,000 in 2025 UTSA Draper Competition

Apr. 28, 2025 - Four out of eight competing teams from across the U.S., Mexico and Canada took home $100,000 in prize money in the 2025 UTSA Draper Data Science Business Plan Competition.

#UTSA #ADSA member #business

Data-driven ventures earn $100,000 in 2025 UTSA Draper Competition

UCSD | Expanse Supercomputer Used to Analyze Unprecedented Number of Stars in Other Galaxies

Apr. 29, 2025 - A team of international scientists has embarked on a massive project to map the chemical history of our Milky Way galaxy and its neighbors using a a powerful new instrument called the Prime Focus Spectrograph.

#UC San Diego #ADSA member #astronomy

UCSD | Expanse Supercomputer Used to Analyze Unprecedented Number of Stars in Other Galaxies

Cybersecurity Researcher at NJIT Toughens Git Software Repositories

Apr. 29, 2025 - Curtmola and his NYU peers won a Distinguished Paper award at the Internet Society’s Network and Distributed System Security symposium in San Diego.

#cyber #NJIT #ADSA member

Cybersecurity Researcher at NJIT Toughens Git Software Repositories

NC State | Data in Bloom

May 1, 2025 - Data Science and AI Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Kelsey Virginia Dufresne, explores the role of flowers, art, and community in data science by participating in and creating a floral installation for the North Carolina Museum of Art’s (NCMA) 2025 Art in Bloom fundraiser.

#ADSA member #NCSU #dssg

NC State | Data in Bloom

UNC-CH School of Data Science and Society celebrates its inaugural class of graduates

May 2, 2025 - In January 2024, SDSS first launched the online Master of Applied Data Science (MADS) for working professionals. Since then, enrollment has grown to more than 130 students.

#UNC Chapel Hill #ADSA member #data

UNC-CH School of Data Science and Society celebrates its inaugural class of graduates

UVA SDS | Brian Wright Receives 2025 All-University Teaching Award

Apr. 30, 2025 - Quantitative Foundation Associate Professor of Data Science Brian Wright has been named a recipient of the UVA 2025 All-University Teaching Award.

#university of virginia #ADSA member

UVA SDS | Brian Wright Receives 2025 All-University Teaching Award

UVA SDS | Master’s in Data Science Students Showcase Real-World Solutions in 2025 Capstone Presentations

May 2, 2025 - M.S. in Data Science students presented their capstone research projects in the Rotunda.

#data science #university of virginia #ADSA member

UVA SDS | Master’s in Data Science Students Showcase Real-World Solutions in 2025 Capstone Presentations

UToronto | Building a VR Community: DSI Hosts Second Annual Questioning Reality Conference

May 1, 2025 - The conference began with a series of mini-grant lightning talks, featuring research teams that had received DSI grants following the 2024 Questioning Reality conference.

#University of Toronto #technology #ADSA member

UToronto | Building a VR Community: DSI Hosts Second Annual Questioning Reality Conference

UChicago | Reflections from UPCEA 2025: Exploring Data Science and Ethics in Higher Education

May 1, 2025 - Three members of the University of Chicago’s MS in Applied Data Science (MS-ADS) team led a roundtable at the 2025 UPCEA Conference.

#ethics #data science #higher ed #pedagogy #education #UChicago #ADSA member

UChicago | Reflections from UPCEA 2025: Exploring Data Science and Ethics in Higher Education

Penn | Empowering Futures: How PRECISE Center’s Mentorship with Google is Transforming Academic Careers and Innovation

May 2, 2025 - “It takes a village to raise a child,” the old saying goes. In the world of academic research, the same principle holds true.

#google #UPenn #career

Penn | Empowering Futures: How PRECISE Center’s Mentorship with Google is Transforming Academic Careers and Innovation

HDSI | Newly Funded – Climate Stress, Nutrition, and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa

May 2, 2025 - The research aims to identify vulnerable populations affected by climate change and poor nutrition, develop climate-resilient strategies, and demonstrate the effectiveness of digital health tools for research in resource-limited settings.

#Harvard #ADSA member #dssg #environment

HDSI | Newly Funded – Climate Stress, Nutrition, and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nobel laureate John Jumper returns to UChicago to discuss the AlphaFold protein revolution

May 1, 2025 - Alum John Jumper delivered Bloch Lecture at standing-room-only event.

#UChicago #data science #google #AI

Nobel laureate John Jumper returns to UChicago to discuss the AlphaFold protein revolution

MIT Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI

Apr. 28, 2025 - MIT announced a Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI that will advise the Institute on best practices for community members and units using scholarly content to train generative AI (GenAI) models.

#MIT #GAI

MIT Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI

The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete

Apr. 25, 2025 - The role is basically obsolete thanks to the breakneck speed of AI development and companies’ own maturity in terms of understanding how to use the technology.

#AI #career #training

The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete

Data Rescue Project | ERICA to the Rescue!

Apr. 28, 2025 - Several volunteers and partners of the Data Rescue Project (DRP) have been working tirelessly for the last few weeks to back up the ERIC catalog and full-text PDFs.

#Trump #data #Department of Education

Data Rescue Project | ERICA to the Rescue!

UPenn engineers first to train AI at lightspeed

Apr. 25, 2025 - Penn engineers have developed the first photonic chip that reshapes how light behaves to carry out the nonlinear mathematics at the heart of modern AI while reducing energy use.

#UPenn #AI #engineering

UPenn engineers first to train AI at lightspeed

Novel course at Yale translates data from the natural world into art

Apr. 24, 2025 - In a new course, Yale students are using AI technologies to transform natural phenomena into artistic performances.

#Yale #AI

Novel course at Yale translates data from the natural world into art

When it comes to reading the room, humans are still better than AI

Apr. 24, 2025 - Hopkins research shows AI models fall short in predicting social interactions, a skill critical for systems to navigate the real world.

#AI #JHU

When it comes to reading the room, humans are still better than AI

UCSD SDSC Participates in HPC Education Project to Produce New Cyber Training Catalog

Apr. 24, 2025 - SDSC's Mary Thomas has been participating in a U.S. multi-institutional initiative that streamlines discovery and collaboration through an innovative cyber training catalog.

#ADSA member #UC San Diego #cyber

UCSD SDSC Participates in HPC Education Project to Produce New Cyber Training Catalog

UMass Amherst | Luna Dziewietin Receives Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Award

Apr. 22, 2025 - Luna, a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in Informatics & Social Thought in Political Economy major and member of the DS4CG 2024 team, wins the Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Award!

#UMass Amherst #ADSA member

UMass Amherst | Luna Dziewietin Receives Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Award

TAMU TAMIDS Travel Grant Program for Students

Apr. 23, 2025 - The Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) Student Travel Grant Program supports undergraduate and graduate students to attend and talk at conferences in any domain of Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning.

#Texas A&M University #ADSA member #data science #graduate

TAMU TAMIDS Travel Grant Program for Students

UWisconsin DSI Special Seminar with Dr. Talitha Washington

Apr. 23, 2025 - Join the Data Science Institute on May 16 for a seminar with Dr. Talitha Washington, Howard University.

#University of Wisconsin-Madison #Howard #ADSA member #dssg #DEI

UWisconsin DSI Special Seminar with Dr. Talitha Washington

UUtah SCI Marks One of Its Biggest Presences at Top Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Apr. 21, 2025 - SCI contributions include four papers, one of which won an honorable mention award, along with a software course and a paper in “alt.chi,” a forum for boundary-pushing research.

#ADSA member #HCI #University of Utah

UUtah SCI Marks One of Its Biggest Presences at Top Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

UNC-CH & USFQ Partnering to Understand how AI is Transforming Science

Apr. 15, 2025 - A group of UNC – Chapel Hill researchers connected with a team from its strategic partner, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), to hold a workshop.

#AI #biology #UNC Chapel Hill #partnership #ADSA member

UNC-CH & USFQ Partnering to Understand how AI is Transforming Science

The University of Chicago Data Science Institute and Google Partner on Cutting-Edge AI and Security Research

Apr. 22, 2025 - This partnership brings together leading experts from both academia and industry to drive meaningful advancements that will enhance user protection, improve AI-driven technologies, and shape the future of responsible data science.

#ADSA member #UChicago #partnership #google #AI #LLM #GAI #dssg #computer science #data science

The University of Chicago Data Science Institute and Google Partner on Cutting-Edge AI and Security Research

Protecting continued progress in data science

Apr. 23, 2025 - We are in an extraordinary and perilous moment that demands a steadfast response.

#ADSA member #Harvard #AI #data science

Protecting continued progress in data science

The Brown CNTR celebrates its one-year-anniversary and launches the Socially Responsible Computing Handbook.

Apr. 24, 2025 - The horizon is wide open for Brown’s young and hungry Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR).

#Brown #ADSA member #dssg

The Brown CNTR celebrates its one-year-anniversary and launches the Socially Responsible Computing Handbook.