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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.
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Introduction to R Programming | University of Virginia (2021)
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Vanderbilt | Transforming Automotive Insights: The Nissan-Vanderbilt Collaboration
Oct. 24, 2024 - The Nissan-Vanderbilt Collaboration Innovation in Automotive Design Vanderbilt Data Science is excited to spotlight an innovative collaboration between Nissan and our dedicated Data Science students, focused on developing an AI chatbot that embodies diverse customer personas.
Penn Engineering Launches Responsible Innovation Initiative - Penn Engineering Blog
Penn Engineering has launched a new initiative to promote the responsible development of new technologies like artificial intelligence.
NJIT | Research Team Innovates in Princeton FlyWire Codex Challenge
Oct. 30, 2024 - An NJIT computational research team, led by David Bader, made impressive strides at the Princeton FlyWire Codex Data Challenge.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | MIDAS Annual Data Science & AI Summit x ADSA Conference
The ‘24 Summit is partnered with the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) Annual Meeting to bring national leaders in data science and AI research and education to the Summit.
NSF advances 71 teams spanning nearly every U.S. state and territory in the second Regional Innovation Engines competition | NSF - National Science Foundation
UTSA | SDS's Los Datos Conference 2024 Poster Session Winners Announced
Oct. 22, 2024 - The Los Datos Conference 2024 hosted a dynamic poster session where students showcased their innovative research across various fields of data science, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.
UCSD | Newest School Merges Data Science and AI Innovation
Oct. 22, 2024 - This summer, the UC Regents voted to approve a new school at UC San Diego to address the growing importance of these disciplines.
Initiative to support interaction between cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence
As artificial intelligence technology rapidly advances, a group of Princeton researchers is asking what human minds can teach us about developing smarter AI and what AI can in turn teach us about how human minds work.
New Sloan grant gives STRUDEL resources to improve tools and expand community
Oct. 14, 2024 - The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a $1.125 million grant that will facilitate the growth of the STRUDEL project, allowing new collaborations between researchers at the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and partners at Superbloom, The Carpentries, and 2i2c.
New risk management minor approved | School of Data Science and Society at UNC Chapel Hill
Oct. 7, 2024 - The College Administrative Board at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill approved a new minor in risk management, developed by the Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, in partnership with the School of Data Science and Society.
Anhong Guo receives Google funding for live visual description platform for blind people
Anhong Guo, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, has received a $75,000 grant from the Google Academic Research Awards program for his project titled “WorldScribe: Context-Aware Live Visual Descriptions for Blind People.”
Campus plans new data science center near Main Quad | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2018)
Aug. 30, 2018 - The data science center will be created by razing and replacing the university’s Illini Hall, which currently consists of primarily classrooms, computer labs, and faculty offices.
University of Rochester | MS in Data Science
The master of science (MS) in data science program at the University of Rochester provides students with a strong background in the fundamentals and application
Data Science in Two-Year Colleges: From Curriculum Design to Industry Collaboration (feat. Crystal Wiggins)
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Brown | New online master’s degree in data science with a focus on policy and governance
Oct. 15, 2024 - In the master of science degree program, students learn how to use data responsibly, giving local and global learners valuable training in responsible AI development and implementation.