UC Berkeley BIDS JupyterCon, and the Next 100 Programming Systems
Dec 16, 2025 - How might the Jupyter Ecosystem support not just the future of notebooks, but the next hundred programming systems?
Berkeley Forward Recap: Democratizing AI Through Platforms
Dec 11, 2025 - A look inside Berkeley Forward brings together Ion Stoica, Fernando Pérez, Darren Kimura, and Napoleon Paxton to discuss artificial intelligence, open platforms, and community driven innovation.
David Bamman Receives Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute Award
Dec 11, 2025 - Bamman’s project bridges large-scale computational analysis in AI with humanistic scholarship in film and television.
How to Teach AI (Not Just Use It) – with UC Berkeley’s Eric Van Dusen
Dec 12, 2025 - A vision for AI education in public universities: shared “AI sandbox” infrastructure, open tools, and a plan for teaching AI basics.
New modeling tool provides United Nations with opportunity to achieve environmental goals
Dec 9, 2025 - The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (Schmidt DSE) co-designed the tool, dubbed Kigali Sim, in partnership with the UN, as well as numerous countries and supporting organizations.
Faculty and Student Voices from Cal Poly Humboldt: Data Science in Action (feat. Kamila Larripa, John Gerving, and Jonathan Juarez)
Nov 14, 2025 - this episode features Kamila Larripa, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science Program Lead at Cal Poly Humboldt, along with her former students John Gerving and Jonathan Juarez.
‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
Nov 5, 2025 - A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
Amazon launches $68 million AI PhD Fellowship program
Oct 21, 2025 - The initiative will fund over 100 doctoral students researching machine learning, computer vision, and natural-language processing at nine universities.
Berkeley Institute for Data Science partners with 2i2c on open source infrastructure
Oct 22, 2025 - BIDS is the first premier member of 2i2c’s new community network, recognizing Berkeley’s longstanding contributions and commitment to the development of open source tools and infrastructure.
Getting ready for JupyterCon 2025: How UC Berkeley is Using Jupyter to Support Healthcare providers, Geospatial Data, and Data Science Education
Oct 15, 2025 - The Open Platforms For Health project - a collaboration between Computational Precision Health and BIDS and led by Ida Sim and Fernando Pérez - will present JupyterHealth: Bridging Wearables, Clinical Data, & Computational Workflows in the Jupyter Ecosystem.
UC Berkeley Social Sciences D-Lab supports fellowship to expand accessibility to data science education
Sep 30, 2025 - In partnership with the Berkeley School of Education and the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the 2-year Berkeley Data Science Education Fellowship provides 3 postdocs with monthly skill-building workshops, teaching opportunities and multidisciplinary research opportunities.
OSPO Monthly Meetup: Launching the BIDS membership of 2i2c
Oct 11, 2025 - BIDS is shaping the future of open source at UC Berkeley, building on its rich legacy of leadership in open source software development.
AI Development at UC Berkeley’s Top Biotech Incubator, Bakar Bio Labs
Oct 2, 2025 - Bakar Bio Labs’ tenant companies are redefining the world of biotech, and they’re doing it with out-of-the-box solutions. For three of the tenants — Insamo, Aikium, and Profluent — AI is core to their technology and strategy.
Berkeley Statistics celebrates 70th anniversary as a department
Oct 1, 2025 - UC Berkeley Department of Statistics’ faculty, students, alumni, researchers and industry partners gathered on campus to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the department’s founding.
UC Berkeley receives AI for Math Fund grants for Vellum and LeanTutor projects
Sep 25, 2025 - Two projects proposed by Berkeley EECS professors recently received funding from the AI for Math Fund to develop systems that help advance mathematical discovery and research.
UC Berkeley ranked #1 in data science and #2 in computer science by U.S. News
Sep 23, 2025 - UC Berkeley’s undergraduate data science program retained its No. 1 spot in the 2026 U.S. News and World Report rankings released today.
Building a Hub for Data Justice (feat. Dr. Amy Yeboah Quarkume)
Sep 19, 2025 - Dr. Amy Yeboah Quarkume at Howard University shares how she’s building Howard into a hub for data science, social justice, and environmental justice.
UC Berkeley researchers use Reddit to study AI’s moral judgements
Sep 10, 2025 - A study published by UC Berkeley researchers used the Reddit forum, r/AmITheAsshole, to determine whether artificial intelligence, or AI, chatbots had “patterns in their moral reasoning.”
Humanoid robots face challenges in gaining real-world skills, says Berkeley expert
Sep 2, 2025 - Berkeley robotics expert Ken Goldberg describes how what he calls the “100,000-year data gap” will prevent robots from gaining real-world skills as quickly as AI chatbots are gaining language fluency.
UC Berkeley | Building Together: Two Days of GeoJupyter Community Innovation
Sep 4, 2025 - Over the course of two lively days, 25 developers, researchers, and enthusiasts from a range of backgrounds came together in Berkeley for the GeoJupyter Hackathon
UC Berkeley DSE Postdoc Maya Zomer Uncovers New Insights into Mediterranean Shrub Resilience
Aug 26, 2025 - Maya Zomer, a postdoctoral researcher on our team, is the lead author of a new paper in Journal of Experimental Botany exploring how Mediterranean shrubs recover after disturbance and their resilience to global change.
UC Berkeley | A Summer of Collaboration at BIDS
Aug 21, 2025 - "Admiration for the people, for the work, and for the ways those two things intersect at UC Berkeley."
UC Berkeley BIDS | Branching out in Open Source: My Summer Experience
Aug 18, 2025 - Kyle Cheng had the unique opportunity to intern at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). It was an eye-opening experience that taught me much about open source software.
Guiding Berkeley’s largest academic department into new territory
Aug 12, 2025 - During her chair term, which ended in June, Tomlin helped dramatically expand the EECS faculty, established the department position under two colleges – a first for the university – and undertook an initiative to honor the department's history.
UC Berkeley | New database on police use of force and misconduct in California makes records public
Aug 4, 2025 - Public records about use of force and misconduct by California law enforcement officers will now be searchable by the public for the first time thanks to a new database built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University
UC Berkeley BIDS | Digital Dunhuang Caves: Preserving a World Heritage Site Through Data and Technology
Jul 23, 2025- In April, BIDS welcomed Dr. Tianxiu Yu and Dr. Yanpeng Song for a special seminar exploring how large-scale digitization is preserving one of the world’s most significant cultural sites.
Conversation at UC Berkeley workshop shares perspectives on AI and humanity
Jun 30, 2025 - A recent discussion at the National Workshop on Data Science Education illustrated the value of open conversation about the impact of AI on humanity.
Workshop on AI and LLMs for the study of folklore highlights collaboration between BIDS and Slovenian Researchers
Jun 24, 2025 - The international workshop brought together researchers from the US, Slovenia and other European countries to explore significant advancements in the application of AI in computational folkloristics.
Jennifer Chayes recognized with 2025 Richard Tapia Award for efforts to diversify computing
Jun 26, 2025 - 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
UC Berkeley Announces the AI Futures Lab: A visionary partnership between BIDS and UC Investments
May 28, 2025 - The BIDS Leadership Team is proud to announce a new hub for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data science, and society.