CNI News

I share the announcement below on behalf of Martin Halbert of the National Science Foundation. -Diane Goldenberg-Hart, CNI ——— We are pleased to announce the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Year of Open Science … [Read more...]

This is the final reminder that Tuesday, October 10th is the deadline to submit a project briefing proposal for CNI’s Fall 2023 Membership Meeting (December 11–12) in Washington, D.C. Submit your proposal via online … [Read more...]

CNI Director Clifford Lynch will be speaking at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference on Oct. 12th in Chicago. He'll report on recent developments in research data management, with a primary focus on federally funded U.S. research. It will include a discussion … [Read more...]

The journal Nature has recently published a survey of 1600 scientists exploring their views of the impacts and implications of AI on their scientific work. See https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02980-0 Clifford Lynch Director, CNI … [Read more...]

The US National Academies is hosting a very interesting workshop on AI for Scientific Discovery on October 12-13, 2023; this is taking place both in person and virtually. There's no charge but you do need to register. Details can be found … [Read more...]

This summer, on June 12-14, I was fortunate to be able to attend a virtual workshop convened by the US National Academies on the applications of AI technology to support Mathematical Reasoning. This was a very wide-ranging discussion which I found to be … [Read more...]

EDUCAUSE, as part of its Horizon Report activities, has just released a document called "2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Generative AI". It's a fairly short report, which the way I read it is focused on largely on institutional strategies and processes … [Read more...]

The Library at the University of Leeds in the UK has just issued a fascinating report on AI in what they call "library spaces" titled  “Looking towards a brighter future: the potentiality of AI and digital transformations to library spaces”. There are a … [Read more...]

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Scholarship will organize a half-day hybrid public workshop, Developing New Approaches to Promote Equitable and Inclusive Implementation of Open … [Read more...]

There's an extremely interesting commentary that appeared recently in Nature; it's framed in terms of sharing data in the highly competitive framework of pharma and biotechnology corporations in ways that can benefit the entire community, but much of the … [Read more...]