Four Advances Redefining AI Innovation — Insights from UPenn Professor Chris Callison-Burch
Oct 22, 2025 - Artificial Intelligence is no longer just advancing. It’s accelerating in ways that will redefine how humans and machines work together.
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Harvard | Exposing Power and Risk in Food Systems
Oct 23, 2025 - HDSR is making weather pressures on the food trading route visible—who can supply, who depends, and where shortfalls may hit first.
ORNL, AMD and HPE to deliver DOE’s newest AI supercomputers: Discovery and Lux
Oct 27, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Energy announced its newest supercomputers, Discovery and Lux, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will expand America’s leadership in AI for scientific computing, strengthen national security, and drive the next generation of Gold Standard Science and innovation.
The Python Software Fpidation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to the NSF
Oct 27, 2025 - The PSF simply can’t agree to a statement that we won’t operate any programs that “advance or promote” diversity, equity, and inclusion, as it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community.
Amazon launches $68 million AI PhD Fellowship program
Oct 21, 2025 - The initiative will fund over 100 doctoral students researching machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing at nine universities.
Uchicago DSI - Why Can’t Powerful LLMs Learn Multiplication?
Oct 24, 2025 - This paper’s key contribution is architectural insights and training techniques can overcome obstacles that scaling alone cannot address.
Cultivating industry partnerships in agriculture: Plant breeding, Beck’s Hybrids and The Data Mine
Oct 24, 2025 - Beck's Hybrids recently partnered with 8 Purdue professors, several graduate students and The Data Mine to build a genetic-informed prediction service for their plant breeders and farmers.
TACC Celebrates 3rd Cohort of US National Science Foundation LCCF Interns
Oct 24, 2025 - Meet the third cohort of the U.S. National Science Foundation Leadership-Class Computing Facility (NSF LCCF) Internship.
UTSA Studies Digital Models, AI to Combat Urban 'Heat Islands'
Oct 22, 25025 - Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio are using AI and digital twin technology, or digital replicas of physical homes, to study potential renovation options that could lessen heat's effects on residents.
Wayne State to Launch Institute for AI and Data Science
Oct 23, 2025 - A new research center at Wayne State University in Michigan will focus on ethical and safe artificial intelligence deployment, regulatory compliance and mitigating unintended consequences of AI systems.
Teaching machines to doubt
Oct 21, 2025 - We must build safeguards against AI’s most dangerous feature: its ability to stop us thinking critically.
UW-Madison Data Science Institute Welcomes New AI Faculty to Campus
Oct 22, 2025 - DSI recently hosted a reception welcoming new RISE-AI faculty to UW–Madison, providing them with an opportunity to meet and identify shared research interests with DSI’s faculty and staff affiliates.
Emma Briant 'Exposing the Propaganda Machine'
Oct 22, 2025 - This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Dr Emma Louise Briant, an internationally recognised expert and professor of information warfare & propaganda.
The informational disciplines
Oct 22, 2025 - The history and contours of the informational disciplines - information science, LIS, library studies. It notes the ongoing blurriness of identity, nomenclature and boundaries.
Lucy Family Institute Graduate Scholar Austin Wyman Receives Best Paper Award at International Data Science Conference
Oct 20, 2025 - Emotion detection AI is an emerging tool with applications across the fields of advertising, the automotive industry, education, human resources, and mental
Berkeley Institute for Data Science partners with 2i2c on open source infrastructure
Oct 22, 2025 - BIDS is the first premier member of 2i2c’s new community network, recognizing Berkeley’s longstanding contributions and commitment to the development of open source tools and infrastructure.
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Oct 21, 2025 - Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
Welcoming Four New Members to the CS&S Board of Directors
Oct 15, 2025 - The new class of board members brings financial expertise, human resources leadership, legal and policy perspective, and experience as part of the fiscally sponsored project program to the CS&S Board of Directors.
It’s Here! Check Out the 2025 CRA Academic Member Book
Oct 21, 2025 - The Computing Research Association (CRA) is thrilled to celebrate the release of the 2025 Academic Member Book!
CERP Pulse Survey: A Snapshot of 2025 Undergraduate Computing Enrollment Patterns
Oct 21, 2025 - This article explores current enrollment trends across computing subdisciplines and considers the unique changes within computing relative to institutional enrollment patterns.
CRA Update: Navigating the Changing Landscape of Computing Education — Together
Oct 21, 2025 - Many academic units are feeling the ripple effects of the recent headlines through declines in undergraduate enrollments.
‘Who’s Afraid of AI?’: UToronto event asks what kind of AI future we want
Oct 17, 2025 - The rapid advance of artificial intelligence has so far been met with a mix of optimism and fear – but relatively little insight into what this potentially smarter-than-us technology actually means for our lives.
National Institutes of Health awards $19.5 million to Ohio State ARTEMIS Suicidal Prediction and Prevention Study
Oct 20, 2025 - The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine are launching a study funded by a $19.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Bucknell Professor Jude Okolie Harnesses AI to Assess Sources of Biodiesel Fuel
Oct 15, 2025 - Bucknell chemical engineering professor explores how deep learning can revolutionize biodiesel production.
Pitt’s “Forging the Future: The Intersection of Health, AI and Tech” global summit kicks off
Oct 20, 2025 - Pitt kicked off its first-of-a-kind global summit, “Forging the Future: The Intersection of Health, AI and Tech,” on Monday, Oct. 20, a day after the annual Global Federation of Competitiveness Council conference on Sunday, Oct. 19.
University to launch campus climate survey, fulfilling agreement with federal government
Oct 20, 2025 - The survey will be sent to students next week and will inform the future of diversity and inclusion at Brown.
Amazon and Carnegie Mellon University Launch Strategic AI Innovation Hub
Oct 15, 2025 - The collaboration between CMU and Amazon will advance research in generative AI, robotics, natural language processing and cloud computing while fostering innovation in foundational and emerging technologies.
Be Careful What You Tell Your AI Chatbot
Oct 15, 2025 - A Stanford study reveals that leading AI companies are pulling user conversations for training, highlighting privacy risks and a need for clearer policies.
Making Machine Learning Safer in High-Stakes Settings
Oct 20, 2025 - A recent report and webinar explored how to improve the performance and safety of machine learning in these settings.
How Chinese paper mills use AI to create ‘higher quality’ academic fraud
Oct 15, 2025 - Paper mills that sell authorship or fabricate entire papers are a staple of China’s competitive academic landscape.