UC Berkeley will offer a Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – a new graduate professional degree program for STEM graduates – starting in fall 2027, with applications opening Sept. 24, 2026. The Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (MAIML) is a full-time degree program taken over two semesters in person at the Berkeley campus.
More than a week before the fall semester at UC Berkeley officially began, 53 eager transfer students arrived on campus Aug. 9 to participate in a new program hosted by the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). The five-day Transfer Launch program aimed to provide CDSS transfer students a jumpstart in preparing for their courses and finding a lasting community at Berkeley.
Chatbots and large language models can execute a seemingly countless number of tasks, from writing emails and reports to generating code and analyzing data. However, they still primarily act only in response to user prompts, and rely on their own predictive models to generate text. That’s why they can be so good at some tasks, such as simulating human writing, and surprisingly bad at others...
Amid growing concerns about AI energy and resource use, three scientists from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (Schmidt DSE) at UC Berkeley and the University of Colorado, Boulder propose a practical solution to reduce reliance on data centers. In a commentary published by Nature on Aug. 11, the scientists posit that open source AI models, which tend to be...
When UC Berkeley postdoctoral researchers Maya Zomer and Lucia Layritz first drove through burned portions of Mojave National Preserve in Southern California, the sight stunned them. “It looks like a pretty dystopian landscape,” Layritz said. More than a million Joshua trees had burned when the 43,000-acre Dome Fire tore through in 2020, with many plants blackening in the flames.
UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint program called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, tremendously accelerating advances in clinical care. The new partnership brings together world-class faculty expertise in computing, AI, statistics, biology and medicine, to speed discovery in everything from disease prevention, to early-detection and new therapeutics in healthcare.
Marking a breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has unlocked a new way to power nanoscale light-generating devices with electricity while preserving the delicate optical properties needed for efficient operation.
A UC Berkeley-led project trained an AI system on hundreds of thousands of EKGs. The resulting risk predictions are much better than existing methods, paving the way to save lives at scale.
A transformational $13.5 million commitment from longtime UC Berkeley supporters Matt Sonsini and Lisa Sonsini will dramatically expand the university’s capacity to translate cutting-edge academic research into ventures that address society’s most pressing challenges.
On May 22, the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society held two commencement ceremonies at the Greek Theatre to recognize more than 2,000 students graduating from the college with bachelor of arts degrees in computer science, data science and statistics.
