Can a bold ‘social contract’ make data sharing more palatable?
Sep 8, 2025 - Hoarding of health data is common across Africa, owing to well-founded concerns about exploitation and misuse of biomedical information.
Higher Ed News
Eight Carnegie Mellon Students Named SoftBank Group–Arm Fellows
Aug 25, 2025 - Eight Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. students have received the SoftBank Group–Arm Fellowship to support research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human collaboration.
UPenn | Where AI models fall short in mimicking the expressiveness of human speech
Sep 4, 2025 - Undergraduates Kevin Li, Henry Huang, and Ethan Yang worked with linguistics professor Jianjing Kuang to compare speech production and perception by humans and AI—research that can help companies move closer to natural and expressive AI speech.
Google honors UCSB computer scientist for pioneering low-cost AI network models
Aug 20, 2025 - UCSB's Arpit Gupta has earned two major Google awards for his work developing low-cost AI network models, paving the way for more accessible, “self-driving” networks.
UCI ICS Summer Academy 2025 Inspires Bright Young Minds
Sep 2, 2025 - While many Southern California high school students spend the summer relaxing at the beach, some spend their time on the UC Irvine campus diving deep into
Georgetown | Connecting Science to Policy - Three Years of MDI’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
Sep 3, 2025 - MDI's Summer Research Showcase marked the end of the final year of the Department of Computer Science and MDI’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program “Connecting Science to Policy: From Formal Computer Science Education to Real World Data Science Research to Policy Decision Making”.
Oxford | First direct evidence links gene to fat storage, hinting at new obesity therapies
Sep 4, 2025 - A new study, involving researchers at the Big Data Institute, has shown for the first time that a little-known gene, SLTM, plays a direct role in how fat is stored inside human cells.
AI and machine learning for engineering design
Sep 7, 2025 - In MIT course 2.155/156 (AI and Machine Learning for Engineering Design), students use tools and techniques from artificial intelligence and machine learning for mechanical engineering design, focusing on the creation of new products and addressing engineering design challenges.
SDSC's Sherlock Partners with MCNC to Deliver Secure Cloud and Data Services Across North Carolina
Sep 3, 2025 - Groundbreaking model for cross-country collaboration and networking could serve as technology foundation and potential blueprint for future nationwide expansion.
UM Amherst | AI4CW 2025 Final Presentation Recap
Aug 29, 2025 - This year’s projects showcased creative applications of AI that improved state operations, including streamlining workflows, enhancing customer support, and developing tools for information management and accessibility.
U-M Ann Arbor | CSE welcomes new faculty of 2025-26
Sep 4, 2025 - Get to know CSE’s newest faculty members, advancing U-M leadership in responsible AI, machine learning, and computing education.
UCSD | Data Science and Engineering Students Rev Up and Win Racing Challenge at 2025 Autonomous Karting Series
Sep 5, 2025 - Several students from the University of California San Diego TritonAI Team participated in the Autonomous Karting Series, taking first place in an autonomous go-kart competition of 10 teams.
Columbia | From Data to Intervention: How a Data Science Alum Uses AI to Prevent Harm in NYC’s Child Welfare System
Sep 5, 2025 - Institute alum Shruti Pandey leverages her data science skills for public service, predicting risk and preventing harm for NYC's most vulnerable children and families.
TAMIDS Announces New Thematic Labs, GAISE and SPARTA, to Advance AI Research - TAMIDS
Aug 28, 2025 - Co-sponsored by the Texas A&M Global Cyber Research Institute (GCRI), SPARTA will focus on developing capabilities for advanced data-driven cybersecurity and resilience enhancements across disciplines, with a particular emphasis on critical infrastructures, trustworthy human-AI interactions, and cyberinfrastructure for scientific research.
Gemini AI Now Available at the University of Minnesota
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JHU Cancer AI Alliance Named to TIME Magazine’s Top 100 AI
Sep 2, 2025 - The Cancer AI Alliance, a pioneering partnership including Johns Hopkins Engineering and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has been recognized in TIME.
A Global Database of Seismic Phases: How the Denolle Quake Lab uses Cloud Computing Resources @ UW
Aug 28, 2025 - The eScience Institute and Information Technology at the University of Washington provide cloud computing resources to researchers with the help of cloud credits.
NC State Data Science and AI Academy Receives Major COMAP Gift to Revolutionize K-12 Data Science and Mathematical Modeling Education
Aug 28, 2025 - The NC State Data Science and AI Academy (DSA) is thrilled to announce a major gift of $130,000 from the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP).
Humanoid robots face challenges in gaining real-world skills, says Berkeley expert
Sep 2, 2025 - Berkeley robotics expert Ken Goldberg describes how what he calls the “100,000-year data gap” will prevent robots from gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency.
OSU TDAI Faculty Member, Huan Sun, Attracts Funding from Open Philanthropy
Sep 5, 2025 - These are the first Ohio State projects funded by Open Philanthropy’s Call for Technical AI Safety Research.
UChicago | A Bet Worth Placing: Computing and Data Science at UChicago
Sep 3, 2025 - DSI Faculty Co-Directors Mike Franklin and Dan Nicolae, with Liew Family Chair of Computer Science Henry Hoffmann, outline the value of computing and data to our educational and research communities in a new op-ed for The Chicago Maroon.
UToronto | AI in Genomics: Building a Collaborative Future for Health Innovation
Sep 3, 2025 - AI in Genomics is a community-building day of presentations and discussions designed to explore how AI can accelerate discoveries in genomics and improve patient outcomes
UVA | Ph.D. students showcase data science research across disciplines
Sep 5, 2025 - UVA’s Ph.D. in Data Science Showcase featured student research in AI, health, climate, and equity, highlighting data science for the common good.
UVA | Joy Qiu discusses data science and health research on CBS19 for ‘Inside The Numbers’
Sep 3, 2025 - Ph.D. candidate Joy Qui shares how data science is advancing the health field on "Inside the Numbers."
Interdisciplinary Teams Win Three Data Storage Awards from Western Digital
Sep 5, 2025 - Researchers from UC San Diego received three Western Digital Petabyte Innovation Quest (Peak) awards for pursuing innovative data storage projects.
U-M Ann Arbor | $3 million DARPA funding for research on emergent capabilities in language models
Sep 5, 2025 - Wei Hu will advance the mathematical understanding of skill composition in large language models with collaborators at Princeton and TTIC.
HDSI | Newly Funded: Six Faculty Special Projects
Sep 4, 2025 - The Harvard Data Science Initiative is pleased to announce support for six new faculty research projects.
Brown | 2025 Incoming CCMB and CNTR PhD students
Sep 5, 2025 - Welcoming new PhD students starting at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB) and the Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR) this fall!
UC Berkeley | Building Together: Two Days of GeoJupyter Community Innovation
Sep 4, 2025 - Over the course of two lively days, 25 developers, researchers, and enthusiasts from a range of backgrounds came together in Berkeley for the GeoJupyter Hackathon
Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward
Sep 4, 2025 - A discussion of libraries and library studies in the context of library education. It is the introduction to, and summary of, my response to the LIS Forward position paper.