Dominguez Center for Data Science

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Wednesday, November 11th, 2026

DCDS Movie Night: “Be Right Back”

By Noah Thomas ’28 On November 5, 2026, the Dominguez Center for Data Science held a movie night event showing the Black Mirror episode “Be Right Back”. Organized by the DCDS Student Liaisons, this event aimed to bring together students while also encouraging them to think about how artificial intelligence can affect us and society as a whole. As part of the event, students met in Holmes Hall to watch the aforementioned episode. The episode explores questions surrounding data privacy and potential implications of using AI to recreate human personalities, interactions, and relationships. After the viewing, the students gathered to […]

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Monday, November 9th, 2026

Career Lunch: Navigating Careers in Data Science and the Growing Role of AI

By Briar Bryant ’29 On October 28, the Dominguez Center for Data Science hosted a Career Lunch featuring Bucknell alumni Kelly Peterson, Ha Linh, and Lissandro Alvarado, who shared their experiences navigating careers in technology, data science, and engineering. Throughout the discussion, they reflected on their transitions from college to the workforce, the growing role of artificial intelligence, and the skills that have helped them succeed professionally. One of the biggest topics of conversation was how AI is changing the workplace. Kelly Peterson shared how AI tools like Claude are encouraged at Axtria to improve productivity, from drafting emails to […]

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Friday, November 6th, 2026

Ada Lovelace Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Highlighting Underrepresented Groups in STEM

By Sushma Upadhayay ’27 On Wednesday, October 14, 2026, Library Services and the Dominguez Center for Data Science organized the Ada Lovelace Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, where interested students and faculty gathered at Bertrand Library. The main focus of this event was to come together to improve the representation of women and underrepresented groups in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The workshop took place from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. and provided participants with an opportunity to contribute to one of the world’s largest online information resources, Wikipedia. Many people have heard of Ada Lovelace, a 19th-century English […]

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Monday, October 26th, 2026

“Fluency is not Truth:” A Campus Address with Jerry Farano ’88

By Kerry O’Day ’28 Bucknell and the Dominguez Center for Data Science recently welcomed Bucknell alumnus Jerry Farano, who gave a campus address on the realities and risks of relying on artificial intelligence. Upon graduation from Bucknell in 1988, Jerry continued his education in law, and spent over 35 years working in corporate governance, law, and international energy markets.  Jerry began his address by taking a step back and asking the questions: “How does technology change the way we think? Can we trust it?” Artificial intelligence is not grounded in shared experience. It doesn’t conduct research, rather it computes a […]

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Thursday, October 8th, 2026

Bucknell Research: Revisiting MinHash Leads to New Methods and Simpler Proofs

By Keegan Kang, Math & Statistics Broder’s MinHash was introduced in the late 1990s to help compare large numbers of documents, including identifying duplicate webpages. It estimates the similarity between two collections of data using compact summaries of each. Later methods, including CMinHash in 2022, have built on that idea. Bucknell undergraduates Avery Hood ’27, Noah Thomas ’28 and Eric Yang ’29 began research with Keegan Kang, an assistant professor of statistics at Bucknell, by understanding MinHash and its subsequent algorithmic improvements. Their summer and semester projects initially focused on understanding how these algorithms worked. The projects form part of […]

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