🚨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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’
Jun 9, 2025 - The Wharton School’s new podcast conducts conversations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industry.
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.
Columbia DSI | Merging AI and Environmental Science for Better Climate Predictions
Jun 18, 2025 - Postdoctoral researcher Shuolin Li is combining ML and physics to create more powerful and accurate AI-powered climate models.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | AI generates data to help embodied agents ground language to 3D world
Jun 13, 2025 - The model trained on the synthetic dataset, 3D-GRAND, had higher grounding accuracy and hallucinated drastically less compared to their predecessors.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | NSF RDSV Project Workshop – MIDAS
Jun 18, 2025 - The Research and Development Strategic Visioning (RDSV) team recently hosted its second workshop on Collaborative Design of Data and AI Systems for Science and Society with a diverse group of experts from U-M, Microsoft and Detroit.
UNC-CH | Building student AI literacy
Jun 9, 2025 - Students have questions about artificial intelligence. Materials from the Carolina AI Literacy Initiative help them learn to use AI effectively and responsibly.
UChicago | Five DSI Scholars Set to Continue in Academia
Jun 18, 2025 - The Data Science Institute (DSI) is excited to share that several members of its Postdoctoral Scholars program and Preceptor program will be moving on to academic positions this fall.
HDSI | Newly Funded: Improving Trust in Scientific Research Among Patients
Jun 18, 2025 - Gordon McKay professor of Computer Science Krzystof Gajos received HDSI funding to create a new platform that helps foster trust with individuals with movement disorders.
Fond Farewell to Two DSI Faculty: Roberta DeVito and Shekhar Pradhan
Jun 16, 2025 - DSI Faculty Roberta De Vito and Shekhar Pradhan will be leaving Brown at the end of the month after years of service to the Data Science Institute and Brown.
Here’s the next cohort of the Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI
Jun 9, 2025 - Meet the 20 organizations using generative AI to address tough societal issues.
How you breathe is like a fingerprint that can identify you
Jun 12, 2025 - An algorithm could identify people from their breath patterns with 96.8% accuracy.
Meet the MIT engineer who invented an AI-powered way to restore art
Jun 11, 2025 - The new method could be 70 times faster than repairing painting by hand.
Quantum physicists unveil most ‘trustworthy’ random-number generator yet
Jun 11, 2025 - The system produces strings of random bits in a process that is fully traceable.
When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study pinpoints the moment
Jun 11, 2025 - Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts to stop girls from falling behind.
Utah Opens Public Comment on Math Standards That Put Data Science Front and Center
Jun 9, 2025 - Utah launched a 90-day public comment on new K–12 math standards emphasizing data science, integrated math, and real-world relevance.
Oxford Statistics at the forefront of AI-driven drug discovery
Jun 10, 2025 - Charlotte Deane from the Dept. of Statistics has been announced as a senior principal investigator on a £8 million government-backed consortium that will create the world's largest dataset for AI-driven drug discovery.
Data competitions provide invaluable opportunities for Virginia Tech undergraduates
Jun 9, 2025 - These competitions provide students the opportunity to work on open-ended real-world problems.
Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds
Jun 9, 2025 - Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence.
UC Irvine to lead use of AI in solving grand challenges below Earth's surface
Jun 9, 2025 - UC Office of the President-funded project involves 5 UC campuses and 2 national labs
New On-Campus Partnership Between Caltech and Meta Focuses Initially on Smart Wearables
Jun 9, 2025 - The collaboration establishes a new on-campus space where Meta employees can interact with Caltech students and researchers while also providing support for innovative projects related to materials, sensing, and wearable technologies.