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For decades, supercomputers have played a critical role in studying our climate and predicting how global changes will impact the world, as well as potential ways to mitigate those effects. With each new generation of more powerful computers, scientists have been able to create simulations in higher resolution, which reveal both new challenges and potential solutions. At the same time, the effects of rising global...

A UC Berkeley research team led by Prof. Sanjit Seshia has been awarded a four-year, $8.4M project by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to research artificial intelligence-based approaches that augment humans to perform correct-by-construction design of cyber-physical systems (CPS). Cyber-physical systems tightly integrate computation with physical processes and have a broad range of societal applications, including in agriculture, aeronautics, civil infrastructure, energy, environmental...

UC Berkeley faculty discuss the nature of misinformation during the pandemic and how to assess, evaluate and engage more effectively with the information resources we consult. With the COVID-19 virus spiking worldwide and the need for accurate information about it more important than ever, four data science experts from UC Berkeley held an online discussion on the origins, amplification and impacts of the current infodemic...

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UC Berkeley Statistics Professor Deborah Nolan readily admits that writing is difficult for her. And based on what she has heard and seen in 30+ years of teaching, most of her students face the same challenge. Several years ago, she decided to do something about it. She successfully applied for an Art of Writing Seminar Fellowship to teach a class in writing about statistics. One...

Last month, Berkeley’s Data Science Undergraduate Studies (DSUS) hosted the Data Science in Undergraduate Economics Workshop, bringing together academic and corporate leaders actively innovating in the intersection of undergraduate data science and undergraduate economics education. Why this workshop? The inspiration for this inaugural workshop was to provide a collaborative outlet for those teaching at the intersection of data science and economics, showcase the work of...

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The Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium held its inaugural event on October 23rd to highlight the work of exceptional early-career scientists in the broad field of quantitative biological and biomedical sciences, with a track record of research productivity and demonstrated contributions to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM. The primary goal was to support an increase in the number of talented candidates in faculty...

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From the pandemic to an underfunded voting infrastructure, from declining trust in public institutions to efforts by foreign operators to further undermine the system, the 2020 U.S. national election is fraught with ways in which the integrity and security of the results can be unduly influenced, according to five UC Berkeley experts. In an hour-long conversation streamed live on Monday, Oct. 26, and now on...