CDSS Videos

Get to know new Berkeley Statistics Assistant Teaching Professor, Alexander Strang.

Alison Gopnik, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley Young children’s learning may be an important model for artificial intelligence (AI). Comparing children and artificial agents in the same tasks and environments can help us understand the abilities of existing systems and create new ones. In particular, many...

Anca Dragan, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley. Researchers used to define objectives for artificial intelligence (AI) agents by hand, but with progress in optimization and reinforcement learning, it became obvious that it's too difficult to think of everything ahead of time and...

Data Dignity and the Inversion of AI - Jaron Lanier, Prime Unifying Scientist, Microsoft Abstract: In this talk, Jaron Lanier will discuss a piece he published in The New Yorker (“There Is No AI”) about applying data dignity ideas to artificial intelligence (AI). Large-model AI can be...

The Spring 2023 Data Science BA Commencement Ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 18, 2023 at the Hearst Greek Theatre at 7:00pm Pacific Daylight Time. This ceremony honors students graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Data Science in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023 or...

2023 UC Berkeley Statistics Department Graduation Recording. Congratulations to all the graduates!

The Data Science Discovery Program incubates cutting edge data science projects with academic researchers, government agencies, non-profits, and industry partners by connecting them to the world class talent at UC Berkeley. The Discovery Showcase held at the end of each semester allows student researchers to present their...