On September 8, 2015,  the University of Michigan announced a large scale ($100 Million) initiative on Data Science. You can find general information on the initiative at:

http://midas.umich.edu/dsi/

As part of this launch, the University hosted a full day symposium on October 6. The slides and video for this event are now available online at:

http://midas.umich.edu/symposium/

There is a good deal of material here that I think will be of interest to CNI-announce readers.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI