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The World of AI: A Novel Approach to AI Literacy for First-year Engineering Students
Siddharth Siddharth, Brainerd Prince, Amol Harsh, Shreyas Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08041

The World of AI: A Novel Approach to AI Literacy for First-year Engineering Students
This work presents a novel course titled The World of AI designed for first-year undergraduate engineering students with little to no prior exposure to AI. The central problem addressed by this course is that engineering students often lack foundational knowledge of AI and its broader societal implications at the outset of their academic journeys. We believe the way to address this gap is to design and deliver an interdisciplinary course that can a) be accessed by first-year undergraduate engin…

Statement by YDS Dean Greg Sterling.
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We are relieved that two members of the YDS community, Rev. William Barber and Rev. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, are safe and unharmed following their arrest while praying in the Capitol Rotunda yesterday. We applaud them for their courage in standing up for Christian values and doing so in accordance with the venerable tradition of nonviolent action.

Rev. William Barber arrested in Capitol Rotunda after praying against Republican-led budget
(RNS) — While arrests of protesters at the Capitol is not unusual, the response to Barber’s prayer was unusually dramatic: After issuing verbal warnings, dozens of officers expelled everyone in the Rotunda — including credentialed press.

Autonomous Vision-Aided UAV Positioning for Obstacle-Aware Wireless Connectivity
Kamran Shafafi, Manuel Ricardo, Rui Campos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23190

Autonomous Vision-Aided UAV Positioning for Obstacle-Aware Wireless Connectivity
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer a promising solution for enhancing wireless connectivity and Quality of Service (QoS) in urban environments, acting as aerial Wi-Fi access points or cellular base stations. Their flexibility and rapid deployment capabilities make them suitable for addressing infrastructure gaps and traffic surges. However, optimizing UAV positions to maintain Line of Sight (LoS) links with ground User Equipment (UEs) remains challenging in obstacle-dense urban scenarios. Th…

When learning analytics dashboard is explainable: An exploratory study on the effect of GenAI-supported learning analytics dashboard
Angxuan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16312 …

When learning analytics dashboard is explainable: An exploratory study on the effect of GenAI-supported learning analytics dashboard
This study investigated the impact of a theory-driven, explainable Learning Analytics Dashboard (LAD) on university students' human-AI collaborative academic abstract writing task. Grounded in Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) theory and incorporating Explainable AI (XAI) principles, our LAD featured a three-layered design (Visual, Explainable, Interactive). In an experimental study, participants were randomly assigned to either an experimental group (using the full explainable LAD) or a control gr…