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The HDSI Newly Funded: Two Innovation API Awards

Nov 7, 2025 - The HDSI with HUIT and the OVPR has selected two projects for support through the Innovation API Fund, providing OpenAI API credits to accelerate research efforts across Harvard University.

#Harvard #ADSA member #LLM #OpenAI #funding

The HDSI Newly Funded: Two Innovation API Awards

Advocates warn of risks to higher ed data if Education Department is shuttered

Nov 10, 2025 - But new hires and fresh research grants hint at a quiet rebuilding effort

#Department of Education #Trump #data management #data

Advocates warn of risks to higher ed data if Education Department is shuttered

Inaugural Margot and Tom Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence Announces Winners - DSI

Nov 10, 2025 - This year’s prize selection was overseen by an international committee of distinguished experts, whose membership includes notable industry figures such as John Jumper, Eric Hortvitz and Pushmeet Kohli.

#AI #UChicago #ADSA member #Cal #CalTech

Inaugural Margot and Tom Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence Announces Winners - DSI

Notre Dame | Meet the Lucy Family Institute Faculty: Jay Brockman

Oct 15, 2025 - Brockman is the Co-Director of the Civic and Geospatial Analysis and Learning Lab (C-GALL) within the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society.

#Notre Dame #ADSA member

Notre Dame | Meet the Lucy Family Institute Faculty: Jay Brockman

What should be included in a data science curriculum for schools?

Oct 30, 2025 - Discover key themes for an effective school data science curriculum, from data literacy and ethics to machine learning AI principles.

#K12 #ethics #AI #data science #machine learning #AI literacy #curriculum #DS4E #framework #pedagogy

What should be included in a data science curriculum for schools?

Padhraic Smyth Receives $900K NSF Grant for Improving Human-AI Decision-Making

Nov 3, 2025 - Padhraic Smyth, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in AI at UC Irvine School of Information and Computer Sciences, and co-PI Mark Steyvers, Professor and Chair of Cognitive Sciences, have received a 4-year $900k grant from the NSF for their project “Improving Human-AI Decision-Making Partnerships Through Shared Understanding.”

#AI #UC Irvine #NSF #sociotechnical systems #ADSA member

Padhraic Smyth Receives $900K NSF Grant for Improving Human-AI Decision-Making

UUtah Kahlert School of Computing Introduces New AI Minor and ‘Exploring AI’ Course

Oct 31, 2025 - The AI Minor is designed to complement a variety of Engineering majors, allowing students to incorporate insights from the field into other aspects of data science, computer engineering, robotics, and more.

#AI #University of Utah #minor

UUtah Kahlert School of Computing Introduces New AI Minor and ‘Exploring AI’ Course

‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text

Nov 5, 2025 - A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.

#UC Berkeley #AI

‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text

New curriculum in the UK to give young people the skills for life and work

Nov 4, 2025 - The UK government to set out plans to bring the curriculum into the modern day and help young people step into the future.

#United Kingdom (UK)#K12 #AI #computer science #data science #curriculum #policy

New curriculum in the UK to give young people the skills for life and work

Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season

Nov 4, 2025 - Meanwhile, the US Global Forecasting System continues to get worse.

#environment #DeepMind #data science #University of Miami #Trump

Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season

UCI Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi Receives NSF CAREER Award

Nov 4, 2025 - Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, assistant professor at the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award

#ADSA member #UC Irvine #NSF

UCI Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi Receives NSF CAREER Award

Rada Mihalcea and collaborators receive ICMI Ten-Year Impact Runner-Up Award

Nov 4, 2025 - The award recognizes the lasting influence of their research on multimodal deception detection using real-life courtroom data.

#data science #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Rada Mihalcea and collaborators receive ICMI Ten-Year Impact Runner-Up Award

Can AI be truly creative?

Nov 5, 2025 - Chatbots and AI models are challenging ideas about who — or what — can create art, music and more.

#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI

Can AI be truly creative?

Navigating Challenges, Opportunities, and Uncertainties as Women in Data Science

Nov 3, 2025 - At AN25, an engaging panel session focused on the challenges and opportunities of women in data science professions.

#gender #data science #SIAM #DEI #career

Navigating Challenges, Opportunities, and Uncertainties as Women in Data Science

Schmidt Sciences awards $18M to researchers working to ensure AI benefits society

Nov 5, 2025 - Schmidt Sciences announced that 28 scholars studying how to fulfill AI’s potential to dramatically benefit humankind are eligible to receive more than $18 million in AI2050 fellowships.

#AI #dssg #Schmidt

Schmidt Sciences awards $18M to researchers working to ensure AI benefits society

University of Pennsylvania Partners With the State on AI

Nov 4, 2025 - The Cooperative Agreement for Artificial Intelligence Advising Services enables collaboration between the state and the University of Pennsylvania, with the latter advising the government on AI.

#UPenn #Pennsylvania #collaboration #AI #training #education

University of Pennsylvania Partners With the State on AI

Learning With AI: What It Means for Students, Teachers, and Parents

Oct 29, 2025 - The future of education and what it means to build a smarter, more human-centered classroom.

#Harvard #Stanford #AI #education #STEM

Learning With AI: What It Means for Students, Teachers, and Parents

USU Michael Twohig Presents 2025 D. Wynne Thorne Lecture

Oct 31, 2025 -Michael Twohig gave the 2025 D. Wynne Thorne Lecture to an audience of colleagues, students and other members of Utah State's research community on Oct. 28.

#Utah State University #collaboration #career #ADSA member

USU Michael Twohig Presents 2025 D. Wynne Thorne Lecture

UIC | Zuck’s call for stronger network protocols published in prestigious CS journal

Oct 29, 2025 - Research Professor Lenore Zuck coauthored a paper encouraging collaboration between the networking community and formal methods researchers to develop formal languages, tools, and methodologies for network protocols.

#University of Illinois Chicago #ADSA member #cyber #ACM #computer science

UIC | Zuck’s call for stronger network protocols published in prestigious CS journal

Universities Must Reclaim AI Research for the Public Good

Oct 30, 2025 - With corporate AI labs turning inward, academia must carry forward the mantle of open science.

#Stanford #dssg #AI

Universities Must Reclaim AI Research for the Public Good

Natarajan Ravikumar: From UNC Charlotte to Global Innovator

Oct 31, 2025 - When Natarajan Ravikumar arrived in the United States from India in 2010, he carried with him a vision that would later define a remarkable career at the intersection of technology, leadership, and innovation.

#UNC Charlotte #ADSA member

Natarajan Ravikumar: From UNC Charlotte to Global Innovator

UU SCI’s Expansive Presence at IEEE VIS 2025 Includes Best Paper and Test of Time Awards

Nov 1, 2025 - SCI researchers are presenting 10 workshop papers, organizing 3 workshops, and leading a panel and a tutorial.

#University of Utah #ADSA member #IEEE

UU SCI’s Expansive Presence at IEEE VIS 2025 Includes Best Paper and Test of Time Awards

U-M Ann Arbor | MIDAS Shaping the Future of AI for Conservation

Oct 30, 2025 - In September 2025, Schmidt Science Fellows and alumni from Oxford, Michigan, and Cornell gathered in Oxford for a week-long workshop titled Shaping the Future of AI for Conservation.

#University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #dssg #AI #environment #Schmidt #University of Oxford #Cornell

U-M Ann Arbor | MIDAS Shaping the Future of AI for Conservation

UW–Madison partners with Microsoft and TitletownTech to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery

OCt 30, 2025 - UW–Madison researchers will work with Microsoft Discovery experts and TitletownTech’s network of industry partners to explore applications of advanced AI that can accelerate research and translation.

#University of Wisconsin-Madison #collaboration #microcredentials #ADSA member

UW–Madison partners with Microsoft and TitletownTech to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery

UVA SDS | From Classroom to Clinic: Applying Data Science to Global Health in Tanzania

Oct 27, 2025 - A Q&A with MSDS student Kayla Lee as she reflects on her fieldwork through UVA’s Global Data Science Fellowship researching infectious diseases in Tanzania.

#university of virginia #ADSA member #healthcare

UVA SDS | From Classroom to Clinic: Applying Data Science to Global Health in Tanzania

UChicago DSI | Two Postdoctoral Scholars Awarded Fellowships

Oct 31, 2025 - The Data Science Institute is pleased to announce that two members of its Postdoctoral Scholars program have been awarded named fellowships in recognition of their exceptional research.

#ADSA member #UChicago

UChicago DSI | Two Postdoctoral Scholars Awarded Fellowships

Applications are open for Penn AI Postdoctoral Fellowships

Oct 31, 2025 - The Data Driven Discovery Initiative has expanded its Penn postdoctoral fellows program in partnership with Penn AI.

#ADSA member #UPenn #AI #funding

Applications are open for Penn AI Postdoctoral Fellowships

Neighborhood Data Project Probes Environmental Challenges

Oct 31, 2025 - Even with diminished federal funding, organizers of the Baltimore-Social Environmental Collaborative plan to empower community members to keep collecting data and putting it to use.

#dssg #environment #DoE #Morgan State University #JHU #collaboration

Neighborhood Data Project Probes Environmental Challenges

Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’

Oct 31, 2025 - Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.

#UT Austin #LLM #GAI #sociotechnical systems

Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’

Nine new tenure-track faculty join Johns Hopkins Computer Science

Oct 29, 2025 - Their research spans social computing and human-computer interaction to the theoretical foundations and real-world applications of machine learning models.

#JHU #computer science

Nine new tenure-track faculty join Johns Hopkins Computer Science