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.
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.
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.
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.
UC Berkeley faculty and key benefactors gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 13 to celebrate nearing completion on the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway building, the new home of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). Since becoming Berkeley’s newest college in the spring of 2023, CDSS has supported a diverse array of researchers and scholars who are not only developing cutting-edge...
Highlights from the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway ribbon-cutting ceremony at UC Berkeley on May 13, 2026. The new state-of-the-art home of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) will bring together more than 1,325 faculty, students, researchers, partners and staff to spark AI-driven discovery and interdisciplinary collaboration across campus and beyond. Guests enjoyed interactive research and education exhibits, guided tours...
Michael I. Jordan will speak at UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) undergraduate commencement ceremonies on May 22. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) and the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley. His research interests bridge the computational, statistical, cognitive, biological and social sciences.
