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U-M Ann Arbor | Qing Qu Receives 2025 Google Research Scholar Award for Developing Efficient Generative AI Models

Jun 13, 2025 - Prof. Qu’s research aims to reduce the cost and complexity of fine-tuning and training large-scale foundation models, while advancing the accessibility and sustainability of high-performance generative AI.

#GAI #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #google #data science

U-M Ann Arbor | Qing Qu Receives 2025 Google Research Scholar Award for Developing Efficient Generative AI Models

Workshop on AI and LLMs for the study of folklore highlights collaboration between BIDS and Slovenian Researchers

Jun 24, 2025 - The international workshop brought together researchers from the US, Slovenia and other European countries to explore significant advancements in the application of AI in computational folkloristics.

#AI #LLM #UC Berkeley #ADSA member #collaboration #GIS #humanities

Workshop on AI and LLMs for the study of folklore highlights collaboration between BIDS and Slovenian Researchers

Jennifer Chayes recognized with 2025 Richard Tapia Award for efforts to diversify computing

Jun 26, 2025 - The Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT) announced that Jennifer Tour Chayes has been awarded the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing

#DEI #UC Berkeley

Jennifer Chayes recognized with 2025 Richard Tapia Award for efforts to diversify computing

UVA | Starr Hill Pathways program introduces middle school students to data science

Jun 23, 2025 - The School of Data Science, in partnership with Computers4Kids, is again hosting a data science career pathway for college pipeline program Starr Hill Pathways.

#university of virginia #K12 #data science #ADSA member

UVA | Starr Hill Pathways program introduces middle school students to data science

UChicago | The DSI Welcomes Summer Students to Explore the World of Research

Jun 26, 2026 - The Data Science Institute is excited to welcome 50 students to campus for its Summer Research Programs.

#UChicago #ADSA member #dssg

UChicago | The DSI Welcomes Summer Students to Explore the World of Research

New Penn State program aims to help faculty build skills in AI, quantum sciences

Jun 26, 2025 - The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) seeks to provide University faculty members with the opportunities to learn new skills and make use of available resources in the rapidly evolving landscape of AI and quantum sciences.

#Penn State #AI #quantum computing #ADSA member

New Penn State program aims to help faculty build skills in AI, quantum sciences

Driving Change in Public Sector Technology through Community Input

Jun 25, 2025 - This primer explores why public agencies do not typically look to affected people for input on technology design, and explains why technology purchasing will be a focal point for needed change.

#community #Data & Society #technology #policy #dssg

Driving Change in Public Sector Technology through Community Input

Moving AI compute to phones massively reduces power use, study finds

Jun 26, 2025 - On-device inference can cut power consumption about 90%, per the study by UC Riverside researchers.

#GAI #UC Riverside

Moving AI compute to phones massively reduces power use, study finds

UK awarded NSF grant to launch international research analytics network

Jun 25, 2025 - The University of Kentucky was awarded a four-year grant from NSF to establish the Research Evaluation and Analytics Capacity Hub (REACH).

#University of Kentucky #research administration #NSF

UK awarded NSF grant to launch international research analytics network

New CRA Taulbee Survey - 2024-25

Jun 25, 2025 - Findings Show Record Doctoral Production, Rising Enrollment, and Shifting Undergraduate Trends

#data science #computer science #data #CRA #career #undergrad #graduate #information science

New CRA Taulbee Survey - 2024-25

AI models' supersonic progress tracked in 120 slides

Jun 25, 2025 - New report from Eric Schmidt's VC fund finds staggering growth along with massive change and uncertainty.

#AI #Schmidt

AI models' supersonic progress tracked in 120 slides

AI tool set to transform characterisation and treatment of cancers

Jun 24, 2025 - A multinational team of researchers developed and tested a new AI tool to better characterise the diversity of individual cells within tumours, opening doors for more targeted therapies for patients.

#AI #biomedical

AI tool set to transform characterisation and treatment of cancers

The AI Alliance Forms Non-profit AI Lab and AI Technology & Advocacy Association to Scale Open-Source Innovation

Jun 20, 2025 - New legal entities and boards intend to scale the AI Alliance’s mission to support and perform open-source development, open research, education, and advocacy for AI globally.

#AI #policy #associations

The AI Alliance Forms Non-profit AI Lab and AI Technology & Advocacy Association to Scale Open-Source Innovation

Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers

Jun 23, 2025 - The authors found no evidence of a sizeable negative impact of AI on workers’ well-being and mental health. If anything, there is evidence of an improvement in health status and health satisfaction, which may be explained by the decline in job physical intensity.

#AI #employment #health #University of Pittsburgh #University of Milan

Artificial intelligence and the wellbeing of workers

BU Soars in New Rankings of World Universities and in Digital Leaders in Higher Education

Jun 18, 2025 - Ratings compiled by London’s QS and the French company Emerging

#Boston University #data science #AI #higher ed #ADSA member

BU Soars in New Rankings of World Universities and in Digital Leaders in Higher Education

Duke researchers want to ensure AI is safe in a health care setting

Jun 24, 2025 - Health systems across the country are investing heavily in AI as a way to reduce burnout for providers and potentially improve care

#Duke University #AI #healthcare

Duke researchers want to ensure AI is safe in a health care setting

Duke | What do students think about AI? Takeaways from the Student Voices Panel at the Triangle AI Summit

Jun 20, 2025 - The Triangle AI Summit brought faculty, staff, and community members together to engage around the ethical, social, humanitarian, and environmental aspects of AI.

#Duke University #AI #higher ed #education #pedagogy #policy #GAI

Duke | What do students think about AI? Takeaways from the Student Voices Panel at the Triangle AI Summit

UNC-CH | Rethinking AI Responsibility

Jun 23, 2025 - Francesca Tripodi is putting people at the heart of AI — challenging bias, teaching ethics, and shaping a more responsible future for technology.

#sociotechnical systems #ethics #AI #ADSA member #UNC Chapel Hill

UNC-CH | Rethinking AI Responsibility

🚨2025 DAIR³: Data and AI Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility🚨

Jun 23, 2025 - The UTSA, Jackson University and U-M Ann Arbor held a 2-day training on DAIR

#UT San Antonio #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #ADSA member #partnership #NIH #GAI

🚨2025 DAIR³: Data and AI Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility🚨

Maryland Universities Team With Google for AI, Tech Certificates

Jun 20, 2025 - University System of Maryland students will have free access to Google Career Certificates in cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing and e-commerce, IT support, project management and UX design.

#University of Maryland #google #career #certificate #microcredentials #data analytics #cyber #partnership

Maryland Universities Team With Google for AI, Tech Certificates

Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role

Jun 20, 2025 - Those stepping up to fill education’s new C-suite role say it's more than just understanding IT — it requires communication and skill-building across disciplines and comfort levels, and flexibility to create a road map.

#AI #leadership #higher ed #George Mason #UCLA #university of arizona #ADSA member #OpenAI

Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting

Jun 21, 2025 - AI is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it. Enrollment in CS quadrupled from 2005 to 2023, but enrollment was up just 0.2% nationally this year.

#computer science #AI #higher ed #career #employment #Duke University #Princeton

The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting

UNC-Chapel Hill | Welcome to the Library AI

Jun 12, 2025 - Tar Heels of all skill levels can experiment with generative AI in the new Davis Library space.

#GAI #UNC Chapel Hill

UNC-Chapel Hill | Welcome to the Library AI

Three UNC-CH SDSS faculty travel on the 2025 Tar Heel Bus Tour

Jun 19, 2025 - SDSS faculty made connections between community experiences and the research they were doing at Carolina.

#ADSA member #UNC Chapel Hill #dssg

Three UNC-CH SDSS faculty travel on the 2025 Tar Heel Bus Tour

Minnesota State to Offer Robotics Engineering, AI Degrees

Jun 18, 2025 - In response to industry demands, Minnesota State University will offer a bachelor's degree in robotics engineering and a master's degree in artificial intelligence this fall, expecting about 25 students in each.

#Minnesota State University #robotics #engineering #AI #undergrad #degree

Minnesota State to Offer Robotics Engineering, AI Degrees

Holyoke Community College to Offer Free 'AI Essentials' Course

Jun 13, 2025 - A college in Massachusetts is working with the nonprofit CanCode Communities to offer a free 12-week course this summer on the fundamentals of AI including prompt engineering, model structures, ethics and other topics.

#Holyoke Community College #AI #ethics #partnership

Holyoke Community College to Offer Free 'AI Essentials' Course

Unpacking the bias of large language models

Jun 17, 2025 - MIT researchers discovered the underlying cause of position bias, a phenomenon that causes large language models to overemphasize the beginning or end of a document or conversation, while neglecting the middle.

#MIT #LLM #bias

Unpacking the bias of large language models

UAmsterdam DSC Away Day

Jun 18, 2025 - The DSC Away Day explored how AI in video challenges our creativity, ethics, and ways of working - set against the backdrop of the Eye Film Institute.

#University of Amsterdam #AI #ethics #ADSA member

UAmsterdam DSC Away Day

UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’

Jun 9, 2025 - The Wharton School’s new podcast conducts conversations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industry.

#UPenn #AI

UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’

UCSD SDSC Leader Shares Vision for AI Energy Use Practices at Copenhagen AI Summit

Jun 16, 2025 - The summit provided government, policymakers, funders, infrastructure and hardware experts a chance to share best practices, lessons learned and plans to meet energy needs in the ever-changing AI arena.

#ADSA member #UC San Diego #AI

UCSD SDSC Leader Shares Vision for AI Energy Use Practices at Copenhagen AI Summit