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Dean of Undergraduate Studies Bob Jacobsen has agreed to succeed David Culler as the Interim Dean of the existing division effective immediately.

The second annual National Workshop on Data Science Education drew more than 60 educators from a variety of institutions across the US, as well as Argentina, Brazil, Australia, the United Kingdom, and China. The workshop, developed around Berkeley's innovative undergraduate “Foundations of Data Science” curriculum and accompanying offerings, was held at Chou Hall from June 24-27.

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UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and University of Washington lead West region collaboration [[{"fid":"1060","view_mode":"width_400","fields":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"kalil chat","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"kalil chat"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"kalil chat","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"kalil chat"}},"attributes":{"alt":"kalil chat","title":"kalil chat","style":"float: left;","class":"media-element file-width-400","data-delta":"1"}}]]The National Science Foundation has doubled its support for the Regional Big Data Innovation Hubs (link is external), bringing data science research at UC Berkeley and other academic partners forward to tackle societal grand challenges alongside nonprofits, industry, and state and local governments. This...

Data science is an intellectual force multiplier. It can unlock insights on social problems, art collections, and language. It’s the glue that brings disciplines together. These are among the threads that drew three dozen Berkeley faculty and lecturers from across campus earlier this month for a three-day “boot camp” on incorporating data science into their teaching. They came from African studies, economics, law, and libraries...

Heart, grit, and bold spirit burst through the grey clouds as families, friends, faculty, Chancellor Carol Christ and more than 100 graduates came together in Wheeler Hall Auditorium to celebrate UC Berkeley’s first ever data science commencement. Welcoming the crowd, Data Science Education Program Faculty Lead Professor Cathryn Carson noted: “As a historian, it is a thrill to see all our paths converging on this...

UC Berkeley will celebrate its first class of data science majors in a commencement ceremony on May 19. One hundred students will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Data Science in the College of Letters and Science, a degree that became available last fall. “Many of our graduates have helped to envision and build this remarkable program from the ground up,” said David Culler...

The Responsible Computer Science Challenge, an ambitious $3.5 million initiative, has chosen UC Berkeley as one of its inaugural awardees. The award will support UC Berkeley faculty and students in computer science, social science, and humanities to develop and scale Berkeley’s groundbreaking ethics curriculum for data science and computer science. The curriculum equips students to recognize and grapple with the complex, high-stakes questions that arise...

Talk by Alexander Valdes, Co-Head Research Investment Engineering at Bridgewater 12:00 - 1:30, Thursday, April 25 | 306 Soda Interested in designing and building systems to tackle complex, real-world problems? Curious to know what an investment system is and how it works? This talk shares how Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, builds an understanding of macroeconomics and turns that into highly inspectable investment systems...