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Baltimore residents protest Johns Hopkins University's plan to build data, A.I. center

Oct 15, 2025 - A group of North Baltimore residents says they are fed up with Johns Hopkins University, claiming it isn't a good neighbor to the people who live near its campuses.

#data science #AI #JHU #ethics #sociotechnical systems

Baltimore residents protest Johns Hopkins University's plan to build data, A.I. center

Harvard’s operations lost $112.6M in FY25 amid Trump’s pressure campaign

Oct 17, 2025 - President Alan Garber called fiscal 2025 extraordinarily challenging for the Ivy League university "even by the standards of our centuries-long history."

#Trump #Harvard

Harvard’s operations lost $112.6M in FY25 amid Trump’s pressure campaign

Large language models prioritize helpfulness over accuracy in medical contexts

Oct 17, 2025 - Mass General Brigham researchers highlight the ‘sycophantic’ tendency of artificial intelligence tools like GPT4, which consistently complied with requests that would produce false medical information

#LLM #healthcare #ChatGPT #GAI

Large language models prioritize helpfulness over accuracy in medical contexts

AI analysis of world’s largest heart attack datasets opens way to new treatment strategies

Oct 16, 2025 - A landmark international study led by the University of Zurich has shown that artificial intelligence can assess patient risk for the most common type of heart attack more accurately than existing methods.

#University of Zurich #AI #biomedical

AI analysis of world’s largest heart attack datasets opens way to new treatment strategies

Modernizing Academic Reward Systems for an Open and Engaged Future

Oct 15, 2025 - The initiative poses an important question: how can academic institutions align their systems for hiring, review, promotion, and tenure with the values expressed in their mission and vision statements?

#higher ed #policy #career #ORCA

Modernizing Academic Reward Systems for an Open and Engaged Future

AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers

Oct 19, 2025 - In July 2024, the ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers Task Force was created to develop comprehensive AI competencies for library workers that align with the evolving needs of academic libraries in the context of AI integration.

#library #AI #career #ACRL #higher ed

AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers

Broadening Access to Data Science Education in High School and Higher Education through Open Source Tools, Infrastructure, and Training

Oct 16, 2025 - Equitable data science education requires a multifaceted approach, involving high school and higher education, community involvement, and accessible tools.

#K12 #data science #education #DEI #policy #training #open source

Broadening Access to Data Science Education in High School and Higher Education through Open Source Tools, Infrastructure, and Training

Brown PhD admissions paused in at least six humanities, social science departments

Oct 15, 2025 - Faculty and graduate students expressed disappointment and frustration at the decision.

#Brown #humanities #social science #Trump #budget

Brown PhD admissions paused in at least six humanities, social science departments

Americans are losing faith in higher education system

Oct 16, 2025 - A Pew survey found seven in 10 Americans feel the higher education system is "generally going" in the wrong direction.

Americans are losing faith in higher education system

University of Pennsylvania rejects Trump’s higher education compact

Oct 16, 2025 - The Ivy League institution became the third college to decline the offer of priority for federal research funding in exchange for sweeping policy changes.

#UPenn #Trump

University of Pennsylvania rejects Trump’s higher education compact

ND Lucy Family Institute researchers receive NSF award to promote AI skills and STEM career pathways

Oct 14, 2025 - Researchers with the University of Notre Dame’s Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society have received an award of nearly $1 million from the NSF.

#NSF #Notre Dame #ADSA member #AI #career #training

ND Lucy Family Institute researchers receive NSF award to promote AI skills and STEM career pathways

Georgia Tech Prestigious Fellows Bring Industry Experience to School of IC

Oct 15, 2025 - Three first-year Ph.D. students in the School of Interactive Computing (IC) are bridging academia and industry through prestigious fellowship programs.

#Georgia Tech #computing

Georgia Tech Prestigious Fellows Bring Industry Experience to School of IC

Maastricht DigiMach: Digital Transformation of the Machining Value Chain for Sustainable Growth

Oct 15, 2025 - DigiMach is a transnational 3-year collaborative approach that will transform manufacturing across the Meuse-Rhine region by bringing AI, IoT and robotics to small and medium-sized enterprises in the machining sector.

#Maastricht University #collaboration #AI #robotics

Maastricht DigiMach: Digital Transformation of the Machining Value Chain for Sustainable Growth

College of Connected Computing launches ‘Plot Twist’ series to offer students advice about successful technology careers

Oct 15, 2025 - The College of Connected Computing has developed a new speaker series called “Plot Twist” that invites Vanderbilt alumni from various backgrounds to share stories with current students about their paths to becoming technology leaders.

#Vanderbilt #career #ADSA member

College of Connected Computing launches ‘Plot Twist’ series to offer students advice about successful technology careers

University of Illinois Chicago | Saeed Boorboor joins CS faculty

Oct 16, 2025 - His research is centered on immersive visualization, providing color, meaning, and significance to data. He focuses specifically on scientific visualization and broadly on biomedical data.

#University of Illinois Chicago #computer science #biomedical

University of Illinois Chicago | Saeed Boorboor joins CS faculty

University of Oxford Study sets new data benchmark for trustworthy antibody AI

Oct 13, 2025 - The study, published in Nature Computational Science, shows that building AI that can reliably predict how molecular changes affect antibody performance will require experimental datasets orders of magnitude larger than those currently available.

#University of Oxford #AI #bioinformatics #biomedical

University of Oxford Study sets new data benchmark for trustworthy antibody AI

Truth Mjumbe launches AI-powered tool to preserve memory and dignity

Oct 15, 2025 - Professional counseling student at Penn GSE Truth Mjumbe built Recall Aid, an AI-powered memory-support platform inspired by his own experience with epilepsy, his grandfather’s dementia, and his father’s work preserving civil rights histories.

#UPenn #AI #dssg #DEI #health

Truth Mjumbe launches AI-powered tool to preserve memory and dignity

Penn State University Informatics doctoral program provides interdisciplinary opportunities for graduates

Oct 13, 2025 - Three recent graduates of the informatics doctoral program at the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology demonstrate how the program's interdisciplinary nature prepares them for a range of post-graduate pursuits.

#Penn State #graduate #degree #data science #education

Penn State University Informatics doctoral program provides interdisciplinary opportunities for graduates

USF Herd of Thunder

Oct 16, 2025 - A dozen students in the band are part of the newly launched Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.

#University of South Florida

USF Herd of Thunder

UC San Diego CAIDA and Internet2 Collaborate for Internet Security Project to Benefit U.S. Education and Research Networks

Oct 16, 2025 - Scientists share vast amounts of data across institutions and borders, but hidden internet routing problems can quietly send that data off course — slowing research or exposing information to unintended parties.

#ADSA member #UC San Diego #cyber

UC San Diego CAIDA and Internet2 Collaborate for Internet Security Project to Benefit U.S. Education and Research Networks

Princeton AI Lab Welcomes Associate Research Scholars

Oct 14, 2024 - The scholars will be supporting the ongoing research at PLI to develop an understanding of large language models and enable their application to research and education.

#Princeton #LLM #AI

Princeton AI Lab Welcomes Associate Research Scholars

NJIT Researcher Fortifies Virtual Reality Tech for Cancer Patient

Oct 14, 2025 - Virtual reality expert Erin Truesdell, in NJIT’s Ying Wu College of Computing, is designing a new kind of user interaction technology that could help cancer patients and caregivers prepare for potential complications due to fevers.

#ADSA member #NJIT #health

NJIT Researcher Fortifies Virtual Reality Tech for Cancer Patient

UC San Diego HDSI Industry-Mentor Capstone Fosters Benefits for Students and Employers

Oct 16, 2025 - Since it was founded in 2018, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute has been providing an opportunity for students and industry leaders to come together and tackle the growing demand for data science and AI innovation and utilization.

#UC San Diego #ADSA member #education

UC San Diego HDSI Industry-Mentor Capstone Fosters Benefits for Students and Employers

Computer scientist Mark Dredze named director of Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute

Oct 13, 2025 - Pioneering computer scientist named director of institute dedicated to harnessing the power of AI to translate data-driven discovery into real-world impact

#JHU

Computer scientist Mark Dredze named director of Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute

Getting ready for JupyterCon 2025: How UC Berkeley is Using Jupyter to Support Healthcare providers, Geospatial Data, and Data Science Education

Oct 15, 2025 - The Open Platforms For Health project - a collaboration between Computational Precision Health and BIDS and led by Ida Sim and Fernando Pérez - will present JupyterHealth: Bridging Wearables, Clinical Data, & Computational Workflows in the Jupyter Ecosystem.

#UC Berkeley #ADSA member #Python #education #data science

Getting ready for JupyterCon 2025: How UC Berkeley is Using Jupyter to Support Healthcare providers, Geospatial Data, and Data Science Education

UChicago Welcoming the Fourth Cohort of Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellows

Sep 29, 2025 - The Data Science Institute is excited to welcome the fourth cohort of Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellows.

#UChicago #AI #Schmidt #ADSA member

UChicago Welcoming the Fourth Cohort of Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellows

MIT | Method teaches generative AI models to locate personalized objects

Oct 16, 2025 - Researchers from MIT and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have introduced a new training method that teaches vision-language models to localize personalized objects in a scene.

#MIT #AI #machine learning

MIT | Method teaches generative AI models to locate personalized objects

New AI tool opens 3D modeling to blind and low-vision programmers

Oct 16, 2025 - A11yShape empowers blind and low-vision users to create and explore 3D models using AI-generated descriptions and synchronized interfaces.

#University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #AI #dssg

New AI tool opens 3D modeling to blind and low-vision programmers

Penn State University | Counting bites with AI might one day help prevent childhood obesity

Oct 15, 2025 - Researchers at Penn State are developing a new artificial intelligence model to measure children’s bite rates. They described their progress in a newly published pilot study.

#Penn State #ADSA member #health

Penn State University | Counting bites with AI might one day help prevent childhood obesity

Reimagining Education: Help Lead the Future of Teaching and Learning with AI at the University of Utah

Oct 16, 2025 - The University of Utah One-U Responsible Artificial Intelligence Initiative at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute is hiring a transformative cluster of experts focused on the future of education empowered by AI.

#University of Utah #ADSA member #education #AI

Reimagining Education: Help Lead the Future of Teaching and Learning with AI at the University of Utah