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Institute for Computational and Data Sciences

Institute for Computational and Data Sciences

How do people make decisions

Exploring the science of decision-making

Lynching map shows extent of mob violence

Map reveals that lynching extended far beyond the deep South

illustration of super earth and its star

Gravitational forces in protoplanetary disks push super-Earths close to stars

Around the college

Around the College: May 8, 2019

Climate Science Class

Supercomputer cluster donation helps turn high school class into research lab

Accepting Self-Driving

Believing machines can out-do people may fuel acceptance of self-driving cars

Trusting Chatbots

People more likely to trust machines than humans with their private information

Neutron star merger image

LIGO and Virgo observatories detect neutron star smash-ups

DNA

NIH grant funds research to pinpoint natural selection’s influence on genomes

Making Movie Recommendations

Privacy settings can help ease suspicion of recommendation-making sites and apps

2019 Hack Event

Hack event gives students a chance to battle back against simulated cyberattack

IBM Mini-Summit Donation

IBM donates system to Penn State to advance AI research

Seed grant

ICS Seed Grants to power projects that use AI, machine learning for common good

Penn State's Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Research

LIGO Hanford, WA detector site

First-ever open public alerts now available from LIGO

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