What the IDEEAS Lab at Virginia Tech has found, one paper at a time.https://ideeaslab.com/https://ideeaslab.com/findings/ai-rubric-rater-mirrors-human-disagreement/https://ideeaslab.com/findings/ai-rubric-rater-mirrors-human-disagreement/Applying a four-part feedback-quality rubric to 295 peer comments, an open-source language model agreed well with researchers on whether a comment named a problem or suggested a fix, and poorly on the two criteria where the researchers also agreed least.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ideeaslab.com/findings/gatos-recovers-planted-themes/https://ideeaslab.com/findings/gatos-recovers-planted-themes/When the lab planted known themes in three synthetic datasets, the GATOS workflow produced a good match for 166 of 187 planted sub-themes, a partial match for 18 more, and missed 3.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ideeaslab.com/findings/leaving-computer-science-every-stage/https://ideeaslab.com/findings/leaving-computer-science-every-stage/In 263 Reddit posts about leaving computer science, all six reasons the study identified appeared at all four points of departure, from students leaving a degree program to professionals leaving computing jobs, though the mix shifted by stage.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ideeaslab.com/findings/nonprofit-and-government-career-motives/https://ideeaslab.com/findings/nonprofit-and-government-career-motives/In a national survey of 4,605 final-year engineering students, interest in nonprofit work went with valuing volunteering and helping others, interest in government work went with wanting to tackle specific problems, and valuing job security pointed in opposite directions for the two.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT