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As a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley, Claire Tomlin has spent her career researching ways to enable autonomous systems to navigate safely. But over the past four years as department chair, she also focused on responsibly steering EECS during a time of significant change.

Public records about use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers – some 1.5 million pages obtained from nearly 500 law enforcement agencies – will now be searchable by the public for the first time thanks to a new database built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University and published by the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, KQED and CalMatters.

As policymakers in the U.S. and globally consider how to govern artificial intelligence technology, Berkeley researchers have joined with others to recommend opportunities to develop evidence-based AI policy. Jennifer Chayes, Ion Stoica, Dawn Song, and Emma Pierson are co-authors on the article – “Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy” by Rishi Bommasani et al – published by the journal Science on July 31. The article...

A recent discussion at the National Workshop on Data Science Education illustrated the value of open conversation about the impact of AI on humanity. Safiya Noble, an internet studies scholar, social scientist and UCLA professor, joined Jennifer Chayes, dean of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), during a June 24 afternoon session on the Berkeley campus. Meredith Lee, head of...

The Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT) announced that Jennifer Tour Chayes has been awarded the Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing. Chayes is dean of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society and a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, information, mathematics and statistics.

On May 22, the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society held two commencement ceremonies to recognize the 1,799 students graduating from the college with degrees in computer science, data science and statistics, gathering at the Greek Theatre in caps and gowns to celebrate their success.

Nihar Nuthikattu’s initial interest in Section 230 was kindled by following U.S. congressional hearings that included testimony from CEOs at major technology companies. A junior majoring in data science and economics at UC Berkeley, Nuthikattu said he was struck by “the stark asymmetry in technical acumen between lawmakers and digital platforms.” Years later, Nuthikattu was considering potential research projects among the many options available to...

Researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco pursuing new approaches to computational health convened an April 29 conference to share progress and challenges in connecting disparate healthcare data to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes. “We all understand that technical solutions to problems are not going to be any good if we don't have ways of scaling them up, ways of delivering them that...

Two faculty at UC Berkeley's College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) – Dawn Song and Philip Stark – have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the organization recently announced. Since 1780, the academy has honored excellence and convened leaders from across disciplines and divides to examine new ideas, address issues of importance and work together to meet the...

New research published April 25 in the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation shows the need for changes to federal crop insurance programs that could benefit farmers, companies and the climate. The research team from UC Berkeley and the University of Arkansas also released an open source tool that uses artificial intelligence to depict a likely future of the U.S. corn industry in which...