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This article presents the full, original record of the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) town hall, "Statistics in the Age of AI," which convened leading statisticians to discuss how the field is evolving in response to advances in artificial intelligence, foundation models, large-scale empirical modeling, and data-intensive infrastructures. The town hall was structured around open panel discussion and extensive audience Q&A, with the aim of eliciting candid, experience-driven perspectives rather than formal presentations or prepared statements. This document preserves the extended exchanges among panelists and audience members, with minimal editorial intervention, and organizes the conversation around five recurring questions concerning disciplinary culture and practices, data curation and "data work," engagement with modern empirical modeling, training for large-scale AI applications, and partnerships with key AI stakeholders. By providing an archival record of this discussion, the preprint aims to support transparency, community reflection, and ongoing dialogue about the evolving role of statistics in the data- and AI-centric future.

Technology Best of What's New 5 personal care products that solved real problems in 2025 We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. In a market saturated with wellness products that promise to fix your whole life but rarely deliver much of anything, this year's personal care winners stand out for actually solving real problems. The 2025 class represents genuine inclusivity and thoughtful design--from a breast pump that goes old school to level up its wearability, to world-class headphones that double as hearing aids and workout coaches. Instead, they address overlooked challenges with smart engineering: making fragrance bottles easier to grip, transforming sleep routines for exhausted parents, and rethinking recovery gear so athletes can soothe strained muscles while on the move. Each winner proves that meaningful innovation happens when companies consider users' actual needs--and use that knowledge to make good products great.

The main contribution of the paper is that it shows that Runge-Kutta solutions of order 1, 2, 3 can be obtained from integrated Weiner processes.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, warned of the "real problem" Congress must tackle regarding drone security on Tuesday, following a House Intelligence Committee classified briefing on the mysterious sightings. "I think it's inaccurate for the Biden administration to say that they're absolutely sure that there's [sic] no problems here – they're not absolutely sure," Crenshaw told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum on "The Story" Tuesday. "There's about 100 cases of these sightings that are still under under active investigation. Now, keep in mind, there was like 6,000 before a lot of them had been assessed to just be planes, manned aircraft, things like that… satellites. As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, Crenshaw emphasized that one of the "biggest problems" in addressing drone security is the lack of a clear "legal framework." A map depicts the various locations mystery drones have been spotted in Northeastern USA in December 2024. "Since 2017, 2018, we've given the federal government authority to detect and mitigate drone activity across the United States, but that tends to be pretty limited," said Crenshaw. "So DOJ has authority, DOD has authority, DOE - Department of Energy - has authority, DHS has some authority.

Cruise around TikTok these days and you're bound to stumble on one: A young woman, standing next to a presumed beau, pointing out their "feminine, vintage-Levi's-wearing, tote-bag-carrying, mustached little boyfriend." If you haven't seen one of those, maybe it's the person saying "if my friends think you're a little bit fruity" then you're their type. Keep scrolling and you'll see commenters saying they're "manifesting my little gay boyfriend." Earlier this month, a piece in Dazed explained the trend thus: "Fruity boys" are "the new soft boys." The slang term, the latest in a long line of similar monikers going back to "metrosexual," aims to identify a new archetype: a man who is usually straight who possesses a set of nebulously feminine or queerish qualities, or a "zesty aura."

Margo Seltzer, the Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems at the University of British Columbia and 2023–2024 ACM Athena Lecturer, is the kind of researcher who stands out not just for her accomplishments, but for her tirelessness. After building a database software library that underpinned many first-generation Internet services, she worked on topics that range from file systems and storage to capturing and accessing data provenance. Here, she speaks with Leah Hoffmann about finding impactful research projects--and keeping up with everything that's going on in the field. The story of Berkeley DB, the database software library that you built with Keith Bostic and Mike Olson, has been told before at greater length, but let me see if I can summarize. Your work on packages such as hash and B-tree was released with Berkeley Unix as the DB 1.85 library.

Ready or not, health care is undergoing a massive transformation driven by artificial intelligence. But medical schools have barely started to teach about AI and machine learning -- creating knowledge gaps that could compound the damage caused by flawed algorithms and biased decision-support systems. "We're going to be at a point where we're not going to be able to catch up and be able to call out the technology defects or flaws," said Erkin Ötleş, a machine learning researcher working toward his medical degree and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. "Without being armed with that set of foundational knowledge into how these things work, we're going to be at a disadvantage." In a recent commentary published in Cell Reports Medicine, Ötleş and a group of physicians and educators from the University of Michigan called for medical educators to make AI less of an afterthought and more of a core concept in undergraduate medical training.

Robotic vision, the combination of robotics and computer vision, involves the application of computer algorithms to data acquired from sensors. The research community has developed a large body of such algorithms but for a newcomer to the field this can be quite daunting. For over 20 years the author has maintained two open-source MATLAB Toolboxes, one for robotics and one for vision. They provide implementations of many important algorithms and allow users to work with real problems, not just trivial examples. This book makes the fundamental algorithms of robotics, vision and control accessible to all.