The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projects were abruptly canceled in a few days, resulting in roughly $739 million in halted research funding. The directive, issued with little explanation, has created chaos across the academic research … Read more
Editor’s note: Summer internships are good opportunities for graduate students to learn new research problems in industry, working with researchers and practitioners, and experience different culture. In this post, Vaastav Anand from MPI-SWS shares some of his great experience at Azure Research, a young systems research group at Microsoft. Apparently, he had a lot of … Read more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the world, powering productivity tools, healthcare, and education innovations through large-scale models like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Gemini, and Claude. Most of these models, managed by tech giants such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, require users to send data to centralized services. However, growing concerns over data security and privacy, along with … Read more