Friday, June 19, 2026

6/19/26: AI medical startup hackathon redux

Artificial Intelligence Study Group

Welcome! We meet from 4:00-4:45 p.m. Central Time on Fridays. Anyone can join. Feel free to attend any or all sessions, or ask to be added to the invite list - or removed as we have no wish to send unneeded emails of which we all certainly get too many. 
Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

Agenda, Minutes & Status (212th meeting, June 19, 2026)
  • Today
    • AI medical startup hackathon redux
      • This group can be used for customer discovery, consulting suggestions / ad hoc board member suggestions
      • Intros.
      • If you were going to redo it what would you do differently?
      • What next?
      • What was the breakdown of group members and roles, technical and other/ 
      • If hackers are bad, then how is a hackathon good? 
    • Evaluate some things if time allows.
      • ScientistOne: Towards Human-Level Autonomous Research via Chain-of-Evidence. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.26340 
      • On the Origin of Algorithmic Progress in AI, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21622
    • Read/view something if time allows.
      • The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated. Paywalled at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-98420-4_7. See https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EAq0ZjVpwtDPfVcoTZ0PILxyrFP5X6KS/view, p. 89Article got a 4.
  • Soon: EWG will give a 5 min. demo of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) (when?)  
  • Let me know of anything you'd like to have evaluated for a fuller reading, viewing or discussion.
  • For future activities
    • Read/view items suggested by attendees. Evaluate some of them, then do one which is highest in full.
    • What if we read from papers authored by people in this group? Then an author would be present to help everyone understand it.
    • Invite paper authors at UALR or anywhere to host a reading session on the abstract and various paragraphs of a paper they published or plan to submit.
    • Any projects that MS students can sign up for? If anyone has an idea for an MS project where the student reports to us for a few minutes each week for discussion and feedback - a student might potentially be recruited! Let me know. 
      • Please suggest a project!
    • Any other announcements?  



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