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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 25-Apr-2025 11:08 ET (25-Apr-2025 15:08 GMT/UTC)

23-Apr-2025

UTEP launches artificial intelligence think tank to address regional challenges

University of Texas at El Paso
Business Announcement

The University of Texas at El Paso has launched the AI Institute for Community-Engaged Research, an interdisciplinary think tank designed to leverage artificial intelligence technologies to address pressing regional and national challenges.

23-Apr-2025

Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers developed a more efficient way to control the outputs of a large language model, guiding it to generate text that adheres to a certain structure, like a programming language, and remains error free.

Funder: Canada CIFAR AI Chairs Program, MIT Quest for Intelligence, Convergent Research

23-Apr-2025

Illinois Tech’s Armour Research Foundation reactor designated a nuclear historic landmark

Illinois Institute of Technology
Business Announcement

The Armour Research Foundation Reactor at Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) has been officially recognized as a Nuclear Historic Landmark by the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Nicknamed “the atomic furnace,” the world’s first privately owned and operated nuclear reactor marked a significant transition in the history of nuclear research—from its secretive wartime origins to a publicly celebrated pursuit of knowledge and progress.

23-Apr-2025

Karen Lozano, Eduardo Salas elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rice University
Grant and Award Announcement

Rice professors Karen Lozano and Eduardo Salas have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest and most prestigious learned societies in the nation.

23-Apr-2025

Helping computers perceive and interact with the visual world

Association for Computing Machinery
Grant and Award Announcement

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Cordelia Schmid, Research Director at Inria, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, as the 2025-2026 ACM Athena Lecturer. Schmid is recognized for outstanding contributions to computer vision in image retrieval, object recognition, and video understanding. Her work has helped computers understand, perceive, and interact with the visual world.

23-Apr-2025

Infectious disease surveillance platform BEACON launches as a new open-source global resource

Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
Business Announcement

The Biothreats Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON), an open-source infectious diseases monitoring tool powered by AI and human experts, launches. BEACON is housed at Boston University’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases and operated in partnership with the Hariri Institute for Computing and Data Sciences at Boston University and HealthMap at Boston Children’s Hospital.

23-Apr-2025

FRESH bioprinting brings vascularized tissue one step closer

College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using their novel FRESH 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for printing of soft living cells and tissues, Carnegie Mellon’s Feinberg lab has built a first-of-its-kind tissue model entirely out of collagen.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health