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Announcements
Lab Led by Todd Presner Gets $308,000 Grant to Study AI and Holocaust History

The lab of Todd Presner, UCLA professor of European languages and transcultur

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Media Coverage
Digital Blackface Flourishes Under Trump and AI: "The state is bending reality"

Digital blackface—a form of Black cultural commodification repurposed for non

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arial view of electric grid in soft brown and yellow lights
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AI Data Centers Force Dirty "Peaker" Power Plants Back Into Service

A growing number of so-called “peaker” electric generating units are being pr

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Jesse Hagopian and his new book "Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education”
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Jesse Hagopian Discusses Importance of Antiracist Education in New Book
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November XPosition
Announcements
Introducing Xposition: Our DataX Newsletter

UCLA DataX debuts Xposition, our newsletter for cross-disciplinary,

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Announcements
Teaching AI as Creative Practice: DataX Hosts Precollege Summer Institute

A partnership with Design Media Arts’ Social Software enabled high school stu

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Announcements
PIC Reignites Campuswide Computing Spark

Through collaborative curriculum redesign, UCLA's Program in Computing (PIC)

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Group of people discussing in DataX Impact Forum for Livescu event
Announcements
DataX and NNAI Livescu Introduce Everyday AI Seminar Series

DataX has partnered with the Livescu Initiative on Neuro, Narrative & AI

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Homa Hosseinmardi
Announcements
5 Questions With Homa Hosseinmardi: New DataX Faculty Thrives in Interdisciplinary Ecosystem
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student participants of the DataX Policy Hackathon outside Murphy Hall
Media Coverage
Students Examine AI’s Future in Education at DataX Hackathon
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Royce Hall
Announcements
Open position: Coordinator of the UCLA Project "AI and Extremism"
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Media Coverage
Digital Humanities Department talk brings data science to social, human context
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