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The Deep Learning Spring 2021 class materials are now fully available on the CDS website! cds.nyu.edu/deep-learning/
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We’re excited to announce the release of all materials for Yann LeCun’s Deep Learning, DS-GA 1008, co-taught in Spring 2020 with Alfredo Canziani @alfcnz. Learn more on our blog! medium.com/@NYUDataScience/y… #DeepLearning
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Congratulations to our founding Director! NYU CDS' Yann LeCun wins ACM Turing award, the Nobel of Computer Science: nyu.edu/about/news-publicati… Named father of the Deep Learning Revolution: awards.acm.org/about/2018-tu…
He will be sharing the award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio!
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We’re excited to announce the launch of the Minds, Brains, and Machines Initiative! The project, led by @lakebrenden & @todd_gureckis, seeks to promote research at the intersection of human & machine intelligence. More information at mbm.cds.nyu.edu/
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Calling all (aspiring) data scientists!
A reminder that CDS Founding Director Yann LeCun (@ylecun) and @NYU_Courant Clinical Asst. Prof. Alfredo Canziani (@alfcnz) offer a highly acclaimed free online deep learning course centered on energy-based models: cds.nyu.edu/deep-learning/
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Applications for the NYU Data Science PhD program are now open! To apply/find more information, please visit our PhD Admissions page: cds.nyu.edu/phd-admissions-r…. We're excited to welcome the next cohort of leading researchers in data science! #datascience
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Let's all give a HUGE congrats to CDS faculty @kchonyc for being awarded a 2021 Samsung Ho-Am Prize in the field of Engineering! His award recognizes his work in developing a neural machine translation algorithm that can provide high-quality translations.
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CDS founding director @ylecun on @lexfridman's podcast discusses why LLMs won’t lead us to AGI.
He advocates for AI grounded in the physical world and stresses the importance of open source.
Read more:
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CDS welcomes Eunsol Choi (@eunsolc) as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science (@NYU_Courant) and Data Science!
Her research focuses on advancing how computers interpret human language in real-world contexts.
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Yann LeCun (@ylecun), CDS' founding director, demystifies AI's capabilities in a recent Observer article, revealing why even the most advanced AI isn’t as smart as a house cat. His insights remind us of the long road ahead to AGI.
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Let’s all take a moment to congratulate Yann LeCun @ylecun for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences @theNASciences!
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CDS founding director Yann LeCun (@ylecun) has won the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his work on modern machine learning and neural networks. He shares the £500,000 prize with six other AI pioneers.
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Data science is indeed for everyone! We’re excited to announce the release of both the new course book and video series inspired by “Data Science for Everyone”, our popular undergraduate course.
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Meet Sanae Lotfi, a PhD CDS student who is one of three DeepMind Fellows joining us this academic year. We’re also proud to note that Sanae has recently won the McKinsey First Generation Achievement Award earlier this month. Learn more on our blog: medium.com/@NYUDataScience/d…
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CDS is honored to continue collaboration with DeepMind (@DeepMind) in empowering the next generation of AI researchers and in building a stronger, more inclusive AI community. Check out our blog to learn about the benefits of the CDS DeepMind Scholarship. nyudatascience.medium.com/in…
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CDS Professor @ylecun and @NYU_Courant Asst. Prof. @sainingxie, in a collab with Meta-FAIR, show AI visual generation can emerge naturally from visual understanding.
Their MetaMorph model efficiently learns both capabilities with minimal extra training.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.14164
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Explore the essence of AI with CDS’ founding director Yann LeCun (@ylecun) & Alfredo Canziani's (@alfcnz) free online Deep Learning Course.
Simplified, visual, and impactful education that's transforming careers!
nyudatascience.medium.com/tr…
#deeplearning #AI #machinelearning
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The Global AI Frontier Lab was recently launched, led by CDS founding director @ylecun and CDS Professor @kchonyc.
A partnership between Korea and NYU, the project aims for groundbreaking advancements in AI research.
The lab will be based in Brooklyn.
nyu.edu/about/news-publicati…
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In light of the current situation, we have recently created the MaD+ (math and data plus) virtual seminar series, jointly organized between NYU and ETH! Follow link below for more info:
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CDS founding director Yann LeCun (@ylecun) and team show that deep neural networks trained on natural videos can develop intuitive physics understanding, challenging the need for hardwired core knowledge in AI systems.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.11831
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Recent work by @rarefin15, Oscar Skean, & CDS' @ziv_ravid and @ylecun shows intermediate layers in LLMs often outperform the final layer for downstream tasks.
Using info theory & geometric analysis, they reveal why this happens & how it impacts models.
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We're thrilled to share a landmark moment for CDS' founding director, Yann LeCun! Yann was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by President Macron at the historic Élysée Palace.
Today, I was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by President Macron at the Élysée Palace.
Président Macron gave a wonderful speech.
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A combination of AI developed by NYU researchers and Students and radiologists more accurately identifies breast cancer in screening images. Read more in the below article from @nyulangone:
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The MS program application deadline is Saturday, January 22, 2022! The only step applicants need to take in order to be considered for the 2022 @DeepMind Scholarship is to simply apply to the program. Please visit our website for more information: cds.nyu.edu/masters-financia…
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Welcome to DeepMind PhD Fellow Polina Kirichenko! In her words, "I am thankful to the people who helped me and inspired me along the way. I am excited to join NYU CDS and very grateful to be awarded the DeepMind fellowship!" We are very grateful to have you with us, Polina! 🥳
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Yann LeCun, CDS founding director and the Chief AI Scientist at Meta, was recently interviewed by Wired.
We're proud to have a leading figure like @ylecun at CDS, continuing to guide and inspire our community!
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CDS researchers @ziv_ravid and @ylecun, et al, advance an entirely new kind of self-supervised learning: Maximum Manifold Capacity Representations (MMCR).
MMCR breaks away from traditional SSL methods, though still connects with them via info theory.
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We were honored to have CDS founding director @ylecun share his expertise on "Objective-Driven AI: Towards AI Systems That Can Learn, Remember, Reason, and Plan" at the CILVR Seminar hosted at CDS last month.
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CDS founding director Yann LeCun (@ylecun) & @NYU_Courant PhD student Jiachen Zhu (@JiachenAI) show that transformers can achieve excellent results without normalization layers.
Their "Dynamic Tanh" (DyT) replacement is simpler and often performs better.
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So proud of our @ylecun! 😀
Founding director of @facebook #AI Research & @NYUDataScience, Prof. @ylecun will kick-off a new seminar series in Modern Artificial Intelligence on 2/20 bit.ly/2rAwkkd #NYU #NYUTandon #TechCrunch #MachineLearning
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CDS founder Yann LeCun, Deepmind Fellow Aishwarya Kamath and CIMS Post-Doctoral Fellow Nicolas Carion came together with a team of Facebook scientists to propose MDETR in a recent paper. Read our coverage of the research on the CDS blog!
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Please join us in congratulating CDS faculty members Kyunghyun Cho and Christina Savin, whose proposal "Real-Time Meta Learning" was selected to receive a Google Faculty Research Award! 🥳🎉
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We are thrilled to announce that @Qi_Lei_, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science at CDS, has recently been named a co-Principal Investigator of ROME, a project that received a significant grant from the Department of Energy (DOE).
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Congratulations to CDS Assistant Professor He He (@hhexiy), who received an NSF CAREER award to study how AI writing assistants affect content diversity and develop methods to enhance personal voices in human-AI collaborative writing.
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The fall 2024 CDS PhD program application is now open! To apply/find more information, please visit our PhD Admissions page: cds.nyu.edu/phd-admissions-r….
We're excited to welcome the next cohort of leading researchers in #datascience!
Link to flyer: drive.google.com/file/d/1iYF…
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Reminder for new and returning students: the ‘Data Science for Everyone’ video series is here for you! Based on the course by Andrea Jones-Rooy and Arthur Spirling, it covers everything from programming to data ethics. A great intro to data science!
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A true highlight in #DataScience research this year: @ylecun & @G_Auss produced first systematic study of 473 encoding models for text classification on 14 multilingual data sets
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Challenging the 'stochastic parrot' hypothesis, new research by CDS Assoc. Prof. Andrew Gordon Wilson (@andrewgwils) and CDS PhD student Sanae Lotfi (@LotfiSanae) demonstrates that large language models can truly generalize, not just mimic.
Read more: nyudatascience.medium.com/do…
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Incoming Faculty Fellow Mark Ho (@Mark_Ho_) currently works as a post-doc in the Computer Science and Psychology departments at Princeton University and will be joining CDS this fall. Read more about Mark on our blog! #datascience nyudatascience.medium.com/me…
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Introducing our DeepMind PhD Fellow, Aishwarya Kamath! In her words, “I'm very excited to start my PhD this fall and look forward to working with the excellent faculty and students at CDS!” Welcome to CDS Aishwarya, we’re thrilled to have you with us! 🎉
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Yann LeCun (@ylecun) was recently featured in the MIT Technology Review (@techreview). The article discusses “his bold new vision for the next generation of AI”: technologyreview.com/2022/06…
#DataScience #AI
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CDS Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, Andrew Gordon Wilson (@andrewgwils) recently received the National Science Foundation (@NSF) CAREER award. Check out our blog to learn more! #datascience #deeplearning nyudatascience.medium.com/cd…
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Read more here about @NYUDataScience's Nikita Nangia (@meloncholist) and Samuel R. Bowman's (@sleepinyourhat) research to redefine the target performance standard for the GLUE benchmark:
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CDS launches “Foundations of Deep Learning” for alumni!
Led by Alfredo Canziani (@alfcnz) and based on material from Yann LeCun (@ylecun), this flexible asynchronous/synchronous course covers AI topics like back propagation, CNNs, and transformers.
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Today we formally welcome our new director Richard Bonneau! We are so lucky to have him. Congrats @RichBonneauNYU!🎉medium.com/center-for-data-s…
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We have a big announcement! CDS and Courant Institute’s Dept. of Mathematics are offering a joint Data Science and Mathematics major for undergrads! Read more details in our latest blog post!
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Registration for our Data Science for Everyone course is now open! Deadline is May 27 for NYU students and May 12 for non-NYU students. Please visit our website for more information! cds.nyu.edu/ds-for-everyone/
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Meet PhD student Lily Zhang who is one of three DeepMind Fellows this academic year at CDS! “It’s an honor to be awarded the DeepMind Fellowship, and I’m especially excited to be joining such a vibrant, interdisciplinary community at CDS.” medium.com/@NYUDataScience/d…
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Are you a data scientist with a background & interest in AI, mathematics, climate science, or psychology? If so, then check out our diverse selection of open faculty and faculty fellows positions by visiting our website: cds.nyu.edu/jobs/ | cds.nyu.edu/fellowsjobs/
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More exciting work coming out of CDS that is being shared publicly. Take a look!
We made the code and models used in our paper "Breast density classification with deep convolutional neural networks" public.
Code: github.com/nyukat/breast_den…
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1711.03674
By N. Wu, myself, Y. Shen, J. Su, S. G. Kim, E. Kim, @stacewolfson, @DrLindaMoy, @kchonyc.
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Congratulations to our very own @KyleCranmer on his promotion to full professor @nyuniversity!
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A huge crowd gathered for new @NYUDataScience faculty member Andrew Wilson's talk "How do we build models that learn?" at today's lunch seminar -- nearly 130 people in attendance! @andrewgwils
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Excited to welcome Shauli Ravfogel (@ravfogel) to CDS as a Faculty Fellow this fall!
Completing his PhD at Bar-Ilan University, Ravfogel's work in NLP and neural model interpretability is remarkable.
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Congrats @jfreirenet! She's the first woman elected as chair of ACM @sigmod. We (+ @nyutandon!) are so proud
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Introducing DeepMind Fellow Khasi-Marc Jamieson! In his words: "I'm thankful and excited for the opportunity to study at NYU thanks to the DeepMind Fellowship and intend to channel my passion for Mathematics and Programming into a career in Data Science." Welcome to CDS Khasi! 🙌
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@NYUDataScience Professor Rajesh Ranganath has been announced as the recipient of the 2018 Savage Award from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis at the Joint Statistical Meeting @ISBA_events
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@NYU_Courant PhD @GaoyueZhou, with CDS Profs @LerrelPinto & @ylecun, & @CMU_Robotics's @HengkaiPan used pre-trained visual features for robot world models, enabling zero-shot planning without task-specific data, & outperforming previous approaches by 45%.
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@YuntianDeng from @UWaterloo presented at CILVR on internalizing reasoning in language models. His team's finetuning approach enabled GPT-2 Small to solve 20x20 multiplication with 99.5% accuracy, while standard training couldn't go beyond 4x4.
Demo up at huggingface.co/spaces/yuntia…
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Attention, prospective MS and PhD applicants! Don’t miss our upcoming virtual fall 2024 program admissions information sessions –
MS program: Thurs, 10/19 @ 10am
Register at: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register…
PhD program: Thurs, 10/26 @ 1pm,
Register at: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register…
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Welcome Ilia Sucholutsky (@sucholutsky), new Faculty Fellow at CDS!
Ilia's work investigates the limits of learning from small datasets and aims to create “machine tutors” that enhance human learning by adapting to the student’s understanding.
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How do #DataScientists teach machines to understand words - not just read them? Some (like @sleepinyourhat) use something called NLI!
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Brian McFee, an assistant professor of Music Technology and Data Science at CDS and @nyusteinhardt, is revolutionizing music tech education with his new book, Digital Signals Theory – a blend of interactive learning & accessible data science concepts.
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We're very excited to welcome Emily Black to CDS as our newest Asst. Prof. of Computer Science, Engineering, and Data Science! Her award-winning work connecting machine learning fairness and anti-discrimination law is reshaping how we approach bias in AI.
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The @NYUDataScience undergraduate major has been approved by @NYSEDNews! We have already begun to offer undergraduate courses for those looking to minor. You can check out our course selection on the @NyuAlbert "Public Course Search."
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Today on the CDS blog we give a huge congratulations to CDS Faculty Kyunghyun Cho for his recent Samsung Ho-Am prize! In our latest post you can learn more about the prestigious honor and the amazing work that Professor Cho was recognized for.
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And there's also this great news for @NYUDataScience faculty member @joanbruna ... Congratulations to Joan Bruna for winning a prestigious NSF CAREER Award on his proposal entitled "Theory and Applications of Geometric Deep Learning!”
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At our first CDS Seminar of the semester, CDS Assistant Professor Eunsol Choi (@eunsolc) discussed making LLMs more reliable by tackling ambiguous questions and knowledge integration challenges.
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We are pleased to announce that the amazing Dr. Julia Kempe has been appointed as the new director of the NYU Center for Data Science! Congratulations Julia—we look forward to welcoming you to @nyuniversity and our #DataScience community.
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CDS researchers @ziv_ravid, @micahgoldblum, @ylecun, and their co-authors have created LiveBench, a benchmark for language models using contamination-free questions.
Monthly updates from sources like arXiv ensure fresh, unbiased evaluation.
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CDS Faculty Fellow opening:
Seeking interdisciplinary faculty fellows in ML, cognitive science, theory, responsible AI, natural sciences, social sciences, NLP & healthcare.
2-year position, competitive package.
Apply by Nov 25 for Sep 2025 start.
Info: apply.interfolio.com/153414
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Congratulations to CDS Faculty Member Rajesh Ranganath on receiving the 2018 Savage Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Bayesian Theory and Methods at the Joint Statistical Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) this week! 🥳@ISBA_events
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Join us in congratulating Assistant Professor of #datascience and #computerscience at CDS and @NYU_Courant Rajesh Ranganath for receiving the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation @NSF!
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CDS Assistant Professor He He (@hhexiy) received Samsung's AI Researcher of the Year Award for 2024, which comes with a $30k prize.
She presented her research at Samsung's AI Forum in Korea, where she met with Samsung researchers and students.
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Our Professor Sam Bowman has organized a tech competition to “jump-start the development of more energy-efficient, language-based AI applications.” Learn more on NYU’s press release page: nyu.edu/about/news-publicati…
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CDS has wrapped its 4th annual NYU AI School, introducing AI to undergrads from schools across NYC. With a goal of making AI education accessible to all, 61% of attendees were from non-CS majors, and the program covered ML, vision, & NLP. Till next year!
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We are proud to announce that our very own, @LakeBrenden, has been included in the MIT @techreview Innovators Under 35 List! This renowned list honors exceptionally talented technologists. Congrats Dr. Lake!
Read more here bit.ly/2tyjQYO
#35InnovatorsUnder35
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Qi Lei (@Qi_Lei_) will join CDS this fall as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science. Her research focuses on machine learning, deep learning, and optimization. Read more about Qi on our blog! #datascience #machinelearning
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Meet CDS Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow Umang Bhatt (@umangsbhatt), who will join CDS this fall. Umang will pursue research in trustworthy #machinelearning, #ResponsibleAI, and human-machine collaboration at NYU. More on today's blog! medium.com/@nyudatascience/m…
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Yann LeCun (@ylecun), CDS Advisory Committee Member and VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta’s AI lab, was recently featured in MIT Technology Review (@techreview). Read about it on our blog! #datascience #machinelearning #research #AI #mittechnologyreview
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A reminder that our MS and PhD in Data Science applications are currently open! Apply now!
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We're very proud today! Congratulations to @kchonyc on being selected as 1 of 15 @CIFAR_News Global Scholars! nitter.app/cards/18ce…
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We are delighted to announce the presentation of several awards to our distinguished faculty members! Please join us in celebrating their accomplishments! Congratulations @ylecun @arthur_spirling @LakeBrenden
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NYU’s Public Safety Lab (@publicsafetylab, @annalilharvey) is using data collected through the Jail Data Initiative, headed by lead data scientist Orion Taylor (@orionjtaylor), to track changing jail populations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more here:
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Our Data Science for Everyone course kicked off today! For NYU students who haven’t yet registered, not to worry! You have until May 27 to register. Don’t wait, apply now! cds.nyu.edu/ds-for-everyone/
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Congratulations to @NYUDataScience Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Data Science Brian McFee (@functiontelechy) for winning the @TencentGlobal 2020 Rhino-Bird Faculty Fellowship!
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Humans still outperform AI on visual reasoning tasks, according to a new study by @solimlegris, @wkvong, @LakeBrenden, and @todd_gureckis.
Despite advances, the top AI models are still significantly worse than humans on the @arcprize's ARC benchmark.
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The NYU AI School (@nyuaischool) is back this winter, taking place January 10-14, 2022. Check out the latest on our blog to learn more about the free, week-long course on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Good news for music researchers and guitar fanatics! Our affiliated faculty member Juan P. Bello, and other researchers from @nyuMARL, are developing a new dataset for guitar recordings 🎸🎶 #DataScience
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NYU recently held its first annual Tech Summit. NYU President, Andrew Hamilton, welcomed @ylecun, Vice President and Chief Artificial Intelligence Scientist at Facebook and Founding Director of NYU’s Center for Data Science, to deliver the keynote address! bit.ly/2RzhuD9
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Can language models learn meaning just by observing text? CDS PhD student William Merrill (@lambdaviking) and CDS Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Data Science Tal Linzen (@tallinzen) explore the question in a recent study. Read about it on our blog!
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This summer Data Science for Everyone will literally be for everyone. One of the most popular courses at CDS will be offered in a remote format that can be completed from anywhere at any time (and by non-NYU students as well!)
link.medium.com/HsOnC0CRd6
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Check out our deep dive on the Minds, Brains, & Machines (MBM) initiative at CDS. Led by @LakeBrenden and @todd_gureckis, MBM is driving a cross-disciplinary conversation that is reshaping our understanding of natural and artificial intelligence.
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This Spring, CDS welcomed Tal Linzen as an Assistant Professor of Data Science and Linguistics. We spoke to Tal about what excited him about coming to CDS and the intersection of linguistics and data science in on our Medium blog!
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