UvA DSC Member Spotlight: Stefanie Boss
Apr. 15, 2025 - Stefanie Boss is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Information Law and the Informatics Institute.
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UCSD SDSC's Rick Wagner Takes a Leading Role in Project Jupyter
Apr. 14, 2025 - Jupyter is a cornerstone of UC San Diego’s educational and research infrastructure, supporting tens of thousands of students annually across hundreds of classes.
Boston University Ramps Up Strategy on AI
Apr. 10, 2025 - The Artificial Intelligence Development Accelerator (AIDA) for Academic and Administrative Excellence is an initiative designed to coalesce the long-standing and widespread investment in—and experimentation with—AI at BU.
BU CDS Assistant Professor Joshua Peterson Merges AI and Behavioral Science
Apr. 14, 2025 - The study finds that LLMs tend to assume people behave more rationally than they actually do.
UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute | Making Everyday AI Safe and Trustworthy
Apr. 14, 2025 - Weng’s project aims to develop a scalable, automated framework that helps people understand how AI make decisions at the model-level.
UToronto DSI-Supported Research Team Links EV Sales to Childhood Asthma Reduction
Apr. 10, 2025 - As Electric Vehicles (EVs) have become a more familiar sight on our streets and highways, one may wonder – has there been a corresponding effect on public health from reduced traffic pollution?
UNC-CH computer science department looks to the future as it celebrates 60th anniversary
Apr. 14, 2025 - Faculty and students of UNC computer science share insights into the department as it reaches its 60th year of existence.
Dr. Tahir Ekin Leads Texas State AI Conversation at SXSW
Apr. 10, 2025 - Dr. Ekin joined other AI industry experts for a panel session at this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) conference to discuss the benefits, risks, and ethical considerations surrounding synthetic data in AI applications.
New method efficiently safeguards sensitive AI training data
Apr. 11, 2025 - MIT CSAIL researchers devised a way to maintain an AI model’s accuracy while ensuring attackers can’t extract sensitive information used to train it.
Duke introduces new computer science concentration in software engineering and design
Apr. 10, 2025 - The concentration is available to students pursuing either a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in computer science. This marks the first concentration offered to students pursuing the BA.
UC San Diego Leads $20M Grant to Provide Commercial Cloud Resources to National Research Community
Apr. 9, 2025 - CloudBank 2 will be a service-based resource, providing commercial cloud resources, from Jupyter Notebooks and secure data to the latest GPUs and quantum computers.
BU CDS Student Voices & Inspirations: One Word’25
Apr. 9, 2025 - In the spirit of Giving Day 2025, the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences is spotlighting eight data science students, all of whom reflect on their educational experience, the CDS community, and what CDS means to them.
AI and Tech Innovation at Columbia Data Science Day 2025
Apr. 8, 2025 - At Data Science Day 2025, it was clear that the Data Science Institute is a Columbia engine for interdisciplinary data science and AI research—and a partner helping industry innovate responsibly.
How a UCSD Climate Scientist Aims to Close the Gap in Cloud Prediction with Machine Learning – Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
Apr. 9, 2025 - One scientist’s work at the University of California San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI), part of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences (SCIDS), aims to demonstrate why federal research support matters.
UWisconsin-Madison | Inaugural Open Award Recipients Recognized at the Research Bazaar
Apr. 8, 2025 - On March 20th, campus leaders were recognized at the UW–Madison Open Awards for their significant contributions to open scholarship and open source.
UWashington | The Use of Machine Learning to Predict Hospital Readmissions After Lower Limb Amputation in the Medicare Population – eScience Institute
Apr. 9, 2025 - This work aims to identify which combinations of patient, facility, and community characteristics are most associated with readmission risk.
ASA DataFest Returns to NC State
Apr. 8, 2025 - The Data Science and AI Academy (DSA) began hosting DataFest on NC State's campus.
UC Berkeley Jennifer Chayes named to Politico's Top 20 Most Influential in California Tech
Apr. 9, 2025 - Jennifer Chayes, professor and dean of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, has been recognized by Politico as one the top 20 most influential players in California technology.
UVA SDS Dean’s Blog: Women in Data Science
Apr. 9, 2025 - The UVA School of Data Science hosted its 7th Women in Data Science Charlottesville conference, celebrating an inclusive future in data science.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | AI with, for and by everyone can help maximize its benefits
Apr. 9, 2025 - Involving a wider swatch of people in AI development can help maximize its benefits.
The Penn ASSET Center Advances Trustworthy AI with Support from AWS
Apr. 9, 2025 - As AI continues to evolve, its integration into safety-critical domains, such as autonomous vehicles or medical diagnosis tools, has raised pressing concerns.
NCEMS working groups to answer molecular and cellular bioscience questions | Penn State University
Apr. 9, 2025 - The NSF National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences at Penn State formed 10 initial working groups, which will conduct research in accordance with open science principles, producing peer-reviewed articles, public datasets, reproducible workflows and other forms of openly shared knowledge to advance molecular sciences.
‘Constantly on defense’: Brown Professors discuss data preservation, integrity under Trump
Apr. 7, 2025 - Five professors across many disciplines spoke at the “Data in the Trump/DOGE Era” panel.
Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
Apr. 9, 2025 - A new multimodal tool combines a LLM with powerful graph-based AI models to efficiently find new, synthesizable molecules with desired properties, based on a user’s queries in plain language.
Wharton professor cited in Accenture report on organizational structures in age of generative AI
Apr. 9, 2025 - The report introduced AI as representing a "fundamentally different way of working" and drew on the company's "firsthand" experience with AI reinvention to explore questions of how organizations adapt workflows, prepare workers, and create new approaches to organization design.
CRA and Microsoft Launch New Fellowship to Advance Trustworthy AI Research
Apr. 3, 2025 - The Computing Research Association (CRA), with support from Microsoft, is pleased to announce the launch of the CRA Trustworthy AI Research Fellowship.
Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science
Apr. 7, 2025 - Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligence’s growing role in science could do more harm than good.
Penn State to launch new National Security Institute
Apr. 4, 2025 - The new National Security Institute will advance and facilitate research outside the scope of the Applied Research Laboratory to address critical security challenges facing the nation and the world.
Tech Entrepreneur TJ Thinakaran Prioritizes Principles & People
Apr. 1, 2025 - There are many ways to describe TJ Thinakaran.
UUtah Hackathon - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
Apr. 7, 2025 - This hackathon invites participants to create AI-powered solutions for air quality across the Wasatch Front addressing pressing challenges in predicting poor air quality.