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Leading Institutions Inspiring the Next Generation of AI Innovators

POSTED ON Aug 22, 2025

LinkedIn News Tech Stack announced this week that new data from its Economic Graph shows that students who attended top colleges are more likely to have started careers in artificial intelligence (AI). According to LinkedIn's survey, these schools have t

GMiS has announced a Call for Abstracts

POSTED ON Aug 22, 2025

Great Minds in STEM is inviting its undergraduate and graduate student members to participate in the 2025 Research Poster Competition. The invitation also extends to students from the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI). CAHSI operates a

50 years from now, people will only remember whether we created technologies that threatened life

POSTED ON Aug 21, 2025

Multiple sources have reported that Geoffrey Hinton, often called the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI), recently introduced the idea of an AI mother model during discussions about AI's potential to surpass human intelligence. Hinton has dedicated decade

Hispanic Heritage Month: Be on the lookout for HE Magazine’s 40th Anniversary Issue!

POSTED ON Aug 21, 2025

Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine was established to promote representation and foster community engagement. It aims to motivate future innovators and leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The initiative st

National Latina Day, Millennials and Baby Boomers

POSTED ON Aug 20, 2025

Dolores Alvarez Castilla founded National Latina Day, and the social media campaign went viral in August 2015 . This year, in addition to Raina Vale's article on how one woman's vision became a nationwide movement, Latinas in Tech celebrated National Latin

Postdocs will be honored during National Postdoc Appreciation Week, Sept. 15-19

POSTED ON Aug 20, 2025

Since this week was officially recognized by Congress in 2010, various activities celebrating postdocs' research and teaching have taken place on campuses across the country. Last year, Vanderbilt University celebrated its 500 postdoctoral researchers during Na

Enhancing U.S. Leadership in AI Innovation

POSTED ON Aug 19, 2025

Historically, academic researchers have made remarkable contributions to artificial intelligence (AI) and can continue that legacy with fresh support. In a promising move, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has teamed up with Nvidia to empower American s

Back to school: Breaking Barriers in STEM

POSTED ON Aug 19, 2025

A recent study called "Experiences of Neurodivergent Students in Graduate STEM Programs" examined how graduate school impacts neurodivergent students, who often feel invisible because of their neurological differences. The researchers found that to understand th

The human brain has had a 100,000-year head start compared to AI!

POSTED ON Aug 18, 2025

In June, Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D., a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting faculty researcher at Google, published a study indicating that using large language models (LLMs) does not enhance human performance. The paper,

How Amazon is creating more jobs across America

POSTED ON Aug 18, 2025

Amazon is not just powering the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) development with Amazon Web Services (AWS); the company is also investing $4 billion to expand its rural delivery network by 2026. According to a press release, the investment will

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