News: Newsclips

2024

NeurIPS 2023 award-winning paper by DSI faculty Bo Li, DecodingTrust, provides a comprehensive framework for assessing trustworthiness of GPT models

February 2, 2024

Bo Li

In a year with a record-breaking number of paper submissions, Bo Li was awarded the NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award.


NetMicroscope uses AI to improve network monitoring for a better internet experience

February 2, 2024

Nick Feamster

Nick Feamster's NetMicroscope has developed a tool that lets customers monitor their network and extract meaningful data – enabling intervention before any problems become issues for the users.


The colossal caverns for Fermilab’s DUNE experiment have been fully excavated

February 2, 2024

one of DUNE's large caverns, about the height of a seven-story building

Milestone for Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, under construction to search for clues about mysterious particles.


Revealed: HIV’s trick for invading the nucleus of a host’s cell

February 2, 2024

A simulation of the pore of the nucleus of the cell. From left, an overhead view; center, a cutaway view; and at right, with an HIV capsid (shown in blue-green) embedded.

ScienceAlert article features Prof. Gregory Voth's research using computer modeling to aid in understanding how the Human Immunodeficiency Virus – better known as HIV – breaks into the nucleus of a cell, enabling it to replicate and spread.


U. of C. contest seeks astronomy art from South Side students

February 2, 2024

An astronaut meets a celestial whale in a painting from the 2023 South Side Science Art Contest

Hyde Park Herald article highlights an art contest held by UChicago astronomy and astrophysics department with the aim of connecting more South Side elementary students to the cosmos.


A shape-shifting plastic with a flexible future

February 2, 2024

From left, Nicholas Boynton, Shrayesh Patel and Stuart Rowan

NYT article features research led by Prof. Stuart Rowan that developed a new type of plastic with properties that can be set with heat and then locked in with rapid cooling, a process known as tempering; unlike classic plastics, the material retains this stiffness when returned to room temperature.


Hollywood’s ‘Oppenheimer’ moment puts a sobering UChicago tradition into focus

February 2, 2024

Oppenheimer movie poster

Crain's article includes comments from Prof. Daniel Holz examining the global threats possibly putting the world closer to apocalypse. 


Gagliardi Group helps unravel the mysteries of copper-catalyzed nitrogen coupling

February 1, 2024

Cu-Catalyzed N-N, O-O, and C-C Coupling. Two ways to tango!

In a recent study published in collaboration between UChicago and UW Madison, researchers have uncovered new insights into how nitrogen centers couple together under copper catalysis. Their work challenges conventional wisdom and opens new avenues in the field of chemical reactivity.


Meet Alice Luna, Astronomy and Astrophysics

January 31, 2024

Alice Luna

Currently a third-year PhD student in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Alice Luna has been analyzing spectroscopic data from telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory to study the metallicity distributions of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies that provide archaeological access to the first stars and galaxies.


AI poisoning tool Nightshade received 250,000 downloads in 5 days

January 30, 2024

AI-generated image of a computer tower and monitor smoking

In a Venture Beat article, CS Prof. Ben Zhao comments on the fact that his lab's tool "Nightshade" has received 250,000 downloads in the five days since its release, saying that "the response is simply beyond anything we imagined."
 


Vera Dragisich wins Diversity Leadership Award

January 30, 2024

Vera Dragisich

Vera Dragisich, PhD’90, a senior instructional professor in the Department of Chemistry, has served as director of academic programs and graduate studies and associate director of undergraduate studies. Throughout her career, she has launched and championed a wide variety of inclusion initiatives.


Exploring 3D Paintbrush: An AI that colors with words

January 26, 2024

Selection of objects with 3D paintbrush details added

Using Cascaded Score Distillation, Dale Decatur and the 3DL lab create 3D Paintbrush: a tool that makes high-resolution 3D edits in localized regions of 3D objects.


Simulations show how HIV sneaks into the nucleus of the cell

January 26, 2024

A simulation of the pore of the nucleus of the cell. From left, an overhead view; center, a cutaway view; and at right, with an HIV capsid (shown in blue-green) embedded.

Chemist Gregory Voth and team assemble massive model of the nuclear pore complex and HIV-1 virus capsid.


‘Doomsday Clock’ Is 90 seconds to midnight (aka total annihilation)

January 26, 2024

Doomsday Clock is set to 90 seconds to midnight

In a WBEZ audio piece, Prof. Daniel Holz discusses the history and process of the Doomsday Clock.


University of Chicago professor, PhD students create tools to protect art from generative AI

January 25, 2024

Video still showing an AI interpretation of a Van Gogh painting

In an ABC 7 video, Prof. Ben Zhao discusses Nightshade, a tool that protects artwork from being mimicked by AI.