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[[{"fid":"1246","view_mode":"width_200","fields":{"format":"width_200","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Z Pardos","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Z Pardos"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"4":{"format":"width_200","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Z Pardos","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Z Pardos"}},"attributes":{"alt":"Z Pardos","title":"Z Pardos","style":"float: left;","class":"media-element file-width-200","data-delta":"4"}}]]UC Berkeley Assistant Professor Zachary Pardos and his team have developed a machine learning approach that promises to help more community college students position themselves to transfer and succeed at four-year colleges and universities. Along the way, they’ve discovered that considering course enrollment patterns—or the classes that students take before, along with, and after a particular course—can...

[[{"fid":"1250","view_mode":"width_300","fields":{"format":"width_300","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Aditya Parameswaran","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Aditya Parameswaran"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"3":{"format":"width_300","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Aditya Parameswaran","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Aditya Parameswaran"}},"attributes":{"alt":"Aditya Parameswaran","title":"Aditya Parameswaran","style":"float: left;","class":"media-element file-width-300","data-delta":"3"}}]]Assistant professor at the Berkeley School of Information, Aditya Parameswaran, has been awarded the 2019 Very Large Data Bases Early Career Award. His work focuses on making data analysis tools effective and easy to use for experts in a variety of disciplines.

[[{"fid":"1248","view_mode":"width_300","fields":{"format":"width_300","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"fakephotos","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"fakephotos"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"width_300","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"fakephotos","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"fakephotos"}},"attributes":{"alt":"fakephotos","title":"fakephotos","style":"float: right;","class":"media-element file-width-300","data-delta":"1"}}]]I School and EECS Professor Hany Farid has authored a new book, Fake Photos, a concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media.

[[{"fid":"1247","view_mode":"width_300","fields":{"format":"width_300","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"DS Ots","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"DS Ots"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"width_300","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"DS Ots","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"DS Ots"}},"attributes":{"alt":"DS Ots","title":"DS Ots","style":"float: left;","class":"media-element file-width-300","data-delta":"1"}}]]Master’s of Information and Data Science (MIDS) student Daniel Santamaria Ots has received the Jack Larson Data for Good Fellowship for his research in Puerto Rico aimed at empowering disadvantaged communities and fostering further government transparency and accountability. Ots shifted his approach to research and data mining after witnessing the poor emergency response to hurricanes Irma and...

Jennifer Tour Chayes, Microsoft technical fellow and managing director for Microsoft Research in New England, New York, and Montreal, will become the university’s new Associate Provost for the Division of Data Science and Information and Dean of the School of Information. [[{"fid":"1197","view_mode":"width_400","fields":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Jennifer Tour Chayes","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Jennifer Tour Chayes"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"2":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Jennifer Tour Chayes","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Jennifer Tour Chayes"}},"attributes":{"alt":"Jennifer Tour Chayes","title":"Jennifer Tour Chayes","style":"float: left;","class":"media-element file-width-400","data-delta":"2"}}]]She will be the first permanent leader of the Division...

[[{"fid":"1194","view_mode":"width_300","fields":{"format":"width_300","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"cloud","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"cloud"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"width_300","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"cloud","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"cloud"}},"attributes":{"alt":"cloud","title":"cloud","style":"float: right;","class":"media-element file-width-300","data-delta":"1"}}]]Berkeley, UC San Diego, and the University of Washington have been awarded a five-year, $5 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop CloudBank, a suite of managed services to remove barriers to public cloud access for data science and computer science research and education. The initiative will help meet growing demand for cloud resources in academic settings by addressing cost...

Dean of Undergraduate Studies Bob Jacobsen has agreed to succeed David Culler as the Interim Dean of the existing division effective immediately.

The second annual National Workshop on Data Science Education drew more than 60 educators from a variety of institutions across the US, as well as Argentina, Brazil, Australia, the United Kingdom, and China. The workshop, developed around Berkeley's innovative undergraduate “Foundations of Data Science” curriculum and accompanying offerings, was held at Chou Hall from June 24-27.

[[{"fid":"1143","view_mode":"width_300","fields":{"format":"width_300","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"MJordan","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"MJordan"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"width_300","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"MJordan","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"MJordan"}},"attributes":{"alt":"MJordan","title":"MJordan","style":"float: left;","class":"media-element file-width-300","data-delta":"1"}}]]Despite the current fascination with Artificial Intelligence (AI), misconceptions abound about its current state and future capacities, suggests Berkeley’s Michael Jordan, a pathbreaking researcher in Machine Learning (ML) in the inaugural issue of Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR). “The idea that our era is somehow seeing the emergence of an intelligence in silicon that rivals our own entertains all of us, enthralling us...

[[{"fid":"1142","view_mode":"width_400","fields":{"alt":"innovate for health","title":"innovate for health","class":"media-element file-default openberkeley-theme-brand-image-focused","data-delta":"1","format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"innovate for health","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"innovate for health"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"alt":"innovate for health","title":"innovate for health","class":"media-element file-default openberkeley-theme-brand-image-focused","data-delta":"1","format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"innovate for health","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"innovate for health"}},"attributes":{"alt":"innovate for health","title":"innovate for health","style":"float: left;","class":"media-element file-width-400","data-delta":"1"}}]]The Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS) has launched a new health data science program with the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at UCSF and Johnson & Johnson / Janssen. The Data Science Health Innovation Fellowship Program, designed to...