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CDAC Discovery Challenge Awardees Train Data Science on Medicine, Clean Water, and Education

Four new projects funded by the CDAC Discovery Challenge program will build interdisciplinary partnerships, open source software, and tools for real-world problems.

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Mapping and Mitigating the Urban Digital Divide

Developing new data science tools to measure broadband access and working with community partners to bring high-speed internet accessible to all.

Data Science

Communications + Internet

Society + Policy

This undated handout image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Michigan, shows The Four Corners area, in red, left, is the major US hot spot for methane emissions in this map showing how much emissions varied from average background concentrations from 2003-2009 (dark colors are lower than average; lighter colors are higher. Satellite data spotted a surprising hot spot of the potent heat-trapping gas methane over part of the American southwest. Those measurements hint that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considerably underestimates leaks of natural gas, also called methane. In a new look at methane from space, the four corners area of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah jump out in glowing red with about 1.3 million pounds of methane a year. Thats about 80 percent more than the EPA figured and traps more heat than all the carbon dioxide produced yearly in Sweden. (AP Photo/NASA, JPL-Caltech, University of Michigan)

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Machine Learning and Satellite Imaging to Reduce Methane Emissions

Develop a data-driven approach to methane emissions monitoring and regulation that leverages machine learning and high-resolution emissions measurements from satellites.

Machine Learning + AI

Image Analysis

Biology + Environment

Economics + Business

Project2019

Rational Protein Engineering using Data-Driven Generative Models

Combine machine learning with high-throughput gene synthesis and rapid assay to learn nature’s rules for protein design and create synthetic proteins with elevated or new properties.

Machine Learning + AI

Biology + Environment

Project2019

A Data Processing Pipeline for Police Communications

Build a pipeline for automatically transcribing law enforcement radio communications, creating a new data source for the study of adverse police outcomes.

Data Engineering

Text Analysis

Society + Policy

Upcoming Events

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Campus EventsApr 20, 2021

Polsky DeepTechU Conference

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CDAC EventsApr 22, 2021

CDAC Data & Technology Outlook: Principles for AI in the Real World

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CDAC EventsApr 22, 2021

Chicago Data Discovery Virtual Summit

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CDAC Discovery Challenge Awardees Train Data Science on Medicine, Clean Water, and Education

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Public Interest Technology Grant Funds and Expands CDAC/Harris Civic Data & Technology Clinic

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Campus EventsMar 30, 2021

Mind Bytes 2021

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CDAC EventsMay 12, 2021

CDAC Data & Technology Outlook: Future of AI and Data Science in Telecommunications

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Campus EventsApr 02, 2021

Uncommon Hacks 2021

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CDAC EventsMar 29, 2021

Civic Data and Technology Clinic Showcase – Winter 2021

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Campus EventsMar 12, 2021

Women in Data Science (WiDS): Chicago 2021

BlogMar 01, 2021

Broadband Terms, Questions, and Myths

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AI + ScienceFeb 18, 2021

Quantum Circuit Simulators

An exterior photo of Crerar Library, home of CDAC and University of Chicago Computer Science.

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