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Happening Today: Jon Kleinberg (Cornell) joins us for a Distinguished Speaker Series lecture on “Formal Models of Language Generation,” exploring what theory can tell us about the strengths and limits of LLMs. 📅 Apr 10, 2026 · 12–1:30 PM 📍 DSI 105, 5460 S University Ave

Don’t miss today’s Distinguished Speaker Series with Lillian Lee (Cornell): “Taking a turn for the better? Pivoting and pivotal moments in mental-health counseling conversations.” 📅 Today · 12–1:30 PM 📍 DSI 105, 5460 S University Ave

Next week: Jon Kleinberg (Cornell) joins us for a Distinguished Speaker Series lecture on “Formal Models of Language Generation,” exploring what theory can tell us about the strengths and limits of LLMs. 📅 Apr 10, 2026 · 12–1:30 PM 📍 DSI 105, 5460 S University Ave

Peer review is under strain—more papers, fewer reviewers, noisier decisions. Chenhao Tan and his team built OpenAIReview, an open-source AI tool for high-quality feedback priced less than a cup of coffee. Can AI help fix the system it’s reshaping? Read more → cs.uchicago.edu/news/uchicag...

Next week: join us for our Distinguished Speaker Series with Lillian Lee (Cornell), “Taking a turn for the better? Pivoting and pivotal moments in mental-health counseling conversations.” 📅 Apr 9 · 12–1:30 PM 📍 DSI 105, 5460 S University Ave

Don't miss Ingrid Daubechies' talk through the UChicago’s Distinguished Speaker Series, which reviews diffusion methods to identify low-dimensional manifolds underlying high-dimensional datasets! Happening TODAY! 📅 March 27, 2026 · 12–1:30 PM 📍 DSI 105, 5460 S University Ave, Chicago, IL

Next week, learn about low-dimensional manifolds in high-dimensional data with Ingrid Daubechies at UChicago’s Distinguished Speaker Series! 📅 March 27, 2026 · 12–1:30 PM 📍 DSI 105, 5460 S University Ave, Chicago, IL

Happy Election Day 🗳️ UChicago researchers built CivicChats to help voters engage more critically with the issues on their ballot. Try the tech here: civicchats.org

Data centers are sold as economic engines for local communities. But as AI’s energy demands skyrocket, UChicago computer scientist Andrew Chien discusses the real cost of these massive facilities on the environment and local residents. ms.spr.ly/6017QgLwB

TEI 2026 starts next week at UChicago! Join researchers, designers, artists, and makers March 8–11 in Chicago for the 20th ACM Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction conference. Don't forget to register if you haven't yet. Details and program:

Prescience, a new benchmark from @ai2.bsky.social & UChicago researchers including Prof James Evans (DSI Fac Co-Dir, Novel Intelligence) and Prof Ian Foster (DSI Fac Co-Dir, AI for Climate) evaluates how well we can predict scientific progress. Learn more 👇

A big milestone for quantum! Infleqtion is now the first neutral-atom quantum company to go public (NYSE: INFQ), backed by $550M+ in funding. Its software roots trace to UChicago spinout Super.Tech, founded by alum Pranav Gokhale and Prof. Fred Chong. Read here: infleqtion.com/infleqtion-b...

Congrats to UChicago CS faculty member @aloni-bologna.bsky.social, who has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow. Read more about the ideas shaping the digital age: cs.uchicago.edu/news/aloni-c...

Get entangled with quantum science and tech! Join UChicago and Duke researchers for a family friendly event, with hands-on games, crafts, demos, and short talks on how quantum could transform computing, transit, and medicine. 🎲🌀 📅 Sat, Mar 7, 2026 · 1–4 PM 📍 Harold Washington Library Center

“Computer Chess” on (likely) the only existing 35mm print, plus a post-film Q&A with writer/director Andrew Bujalski and UChicago CS professor & cast member Gordon Kindlmann. 🎬 📍 Doc Films · Year of Games 🔗 tinyurl.com/y6rdb5a7

Early-bird registration for TEI 2026 is open through Feb 11—join the 20th anniversary conference at UChicago with talks at Ida Noyes and demos/art at MSI. Full, studio-only, and demo-only tickets available at tinyurl.com/mv6fbfj4.

Curious about midscale models, data commons, and federated AI? Join the Meshes of Midscale Models (M3) Workshop on Jan 28, 9:00am–3:30pm at the UChicago Data Science Institute. More details and registration at the link:

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for “Science in the Age of AI” with Associate Prof. Chenhao Tan, featuring AI-driven hypothesis generation, HypoBench, and mechanistic interpretability! 📅 Jan 27, 2026 · 🕓 4:00–5:30 PM CT 📍 William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401

Hear Associate Prof. Chenhao Tan on how AI can generate new scientific hypotheses, steer “hallucinations” toward creativity, and evaluate research itself, including work on HypoBench and mechanistic interpretability. 📅 Jan 27, 2026 🕓 4:00–5:30 PM CT 📍 William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401

New interview: Tensormesh CEO, co-founder, and UChicago CS Associate Professor Junchen Jiang on why KV cache—the memory of LLMs—is becoming core inference infrastructure. Watch: http://y2u.be/zHW4Zz... #LLMInference #KVCache

Join us for a webinar! Bogdan Stoica (PhD, UChicago) will share lessons from chairing EuroSys 2025 artifact evaluation and using testbeds like Chameleon to boost reproducibility. Tue Jan 13, 11 AM CT, registration below. tinyurl.com/k85kk8f4

CS Talk | Jan 21 Lars Bergstrom (Google) on how mobile hardware & operating systems are co-designed—from new CPU features to performance and security advances on ARM (with notes on Intel & RISC-V). 🕒 3–4 PM | 📍 Crerar 390 #UChicago #ComputerScience #Systems

The Griffin Applied Economics Incubator invites submissions for the 2026 AI in the Workplace Conference, May 28 at the Rubenstein Forum. Explore how AI is reshaping work with researchers, frontier labs, & industry leaders. Apply by Feb 15, 2026: https://ow.ly/UMj450XICnb

We are celebrating 5 UChicago CS faculty members receiving Test of Time Awards this year. From streaming data to adaptive software, their work built the backbone of modern tech. Congrats to Michael Franklin, Ian Foster, Nick Feamster, Robert Grossman, & Hank Hoffmann! 🚀

Ever get lost in ad settings? 🕵️‍♂️ New UChicago CS research by Kevin Bryson confirms US ad transparency tools are "hard to discover, harder to use." Without regulation, the ad space is a "lawless land" where users have almost no control. 🛑

Can noise actually make quantum computers easier to simulate? In a Physics Magazine piece, UChicago CS Prof. Bill Fefferman analyzes research showing that without error correction, high noise kills quantum advantage. To succeed, we must find the "Goldilocks zone" of qubits.