🌟 This year's Utah AI Summit (hosted by @utahcommerce.bsky.social) features 2 @utah.edu speakers: Penny Atkins, our director of research & science, and Masood Parvania, director of the Utah Smart Energy Lab & professor of electrical & computer engineering. Learn more: aisummit.utah.gov

🎙️🚴 The Cycling Over Sixty Podcast recently featured SCI co-founder Rob MacLeod, who discussed the sport's influence on his life & SCI's trajectory. Rob & founding director Chris Johnson used to brainstorm while riding up City Creek Canyon together: "Those were [SCI's] origins."
🎧 bit.ly/sci-bikes

🔍 Join us for a Distinguished SCI Seminar from J. Nathan Kutz (University of Washington): "Shallow Recurrent Decoders for the Automated Discovery of Physical Models"

📅 Thursday, Oct. 23, 4–5 pm
📍 John A. Widtsoe Building (JWB 335)

Presented with the Dept. of Mathematics.

bit.ly/sci-kutz

📢 Utah's Responsible AI Community Consortium is excited to unveil its AI Leadership Blueprint to help orgs of all sizes adapt to an AI-driven future: rai.utah.edu/ai-blueprint/

📸 @ksl5tv.bsky.social interviewed blueprint co-authors Kevin Williams, Robin Huling, & @pennyatkinsphd.bsky.social today.

Join us & @marrinerinstitute.bsky.social on 9/18 as Maggie Penn (Emory, @russellsagefdn.bsky.social) explores how classification algorithms shape human behavior, why traditional fairness metrics fall short, & how a new framework accounts for behavior, individ. welfare, & transparency. bit.ly/raipenn

🎂 Happy big 7-0 to SCI co-founder Rob MacLeod! He's not slowing down: he still bikes to work most days, and #NIH just awarded his team a grant for a project titled “Sustainable Software Tools for Neuromodulation Prediction.” 🚴🧠

How is AI reshaping our information landscape—& what does it mean for democracy, science, & public trust? Join us Aug. 20 to hear from distinguished visitor @dietram.bsky.social on how industry & academia can work together to prepare society for AI's impacts.

Details: rai.utah.edu/distinguishe...

Funding opportunity out of @ncstate.bsky.social—apply by July 30! Academic and industry researchers are invited to submit one or more research project ideas. ncsu-las.org/what-we-do/c...

⏩ @pennyatkinsphd.bsky.social keeps SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative moving forward through her laser-focused work w/ folks across campus, industry, & gov. Hear her discuss RAI cyberinfrastructure progress & more at an @academicdatasci.bsky.social "listen & lunch" Thurs:
zoom.us/meeting/regi...

📣 Announcing the cash prizes for A Breath of Fresh Air AI Hackathon:
🥇 $1,500
🥈 $1,000
🥉 $500
Sign up by April 15 to help improve air quality and public health—no coding experience needed. All are welcome, especially Utah college students! rai.utah.edu/hackathon/

🌬️ If you care about Wasatch Front air quality and have ideas on how to improve it, sign up for A Breath of Fresh Air AI Hackathon by March 31. No coding experience necessary! rai.utah.edu/hackathon/

If you're among the 1,750+ people at the Society for Industrial & Applied Math Conf. on Computational Science & Engineering next week, panels will feature familiar faces: SCI Director @parasharmanish.bsky.social, SCI Assoc. Director Orly Alter, & computing adjunct faculty Glenn Ricart #SIAMCSE25

The U College of Education will host distinguished speaker @hchadlane.bsky.social on March 3. By combining established principles with practical exploration & ongoing research, Lane believes we can chart a course for AI in education that benefits learners & supports educators. 🙌
bit.ly/coe-lane

Mark your calendars for this Feb. 27 discussion with Don Norman, a renowned expert in user-centered design and beyond. He's among the most cited researchers in the world. 🔥

Norman will be hosted by Vineet Pandey, one of the inaugural faculty fellows in SCI's One-U Responsible AI Initiative.

SCI Director @parasharmanish.bsky.social recently appeared on the podcast "AI, Government, & the Future." In this clip, he says 1 part of #responsibleAI entails boosting awareness of AI's limitations, e.g., don't "take an output of ChatGPT & trust it blindly." Watch on YouTube: bit.ly/aigovparashar

What is #responsibleAI and how do you achieve it? Join us in one week, on Feb. 11, to hear from the One-U Responsible AI Initiative's inaugural distinguished visitor, UCSD professor David Danks. Details: rai.utah.edu/david-danks/

Mark your calendars for these upcoming events tied to SCI and its One-U Responsible AI Initiative! Visit rai.utah.edu/events for details.

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💡 SCI director @parasharmanish.bsky.social & affiliate faculty member Dan Reed co-wrote 2 newly released @cra-hq.bsky.social Quadrennial Papers, which explore key challenges & opportunities shaping computing research. These recommendations are shared with policymakers & more.
cra.org/cra-quadrenn...