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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@cltcberkeley.bsky.social released a new white paper proposing recommendations for policies that can be implemented to regulate technologies that enable the creation and dissemination of AI-powered NCII and CSAM. #academicsky
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New CLTC Report on AI-Powered Nonconsensual Intimate Images and Child Sexual Abuse Materials - CLTC UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly lowered the barrier to entry for the production and distribution of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII) and child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), leading...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Former Dean Hal R. Varian was named a Citation Laureate for his work in the pioneering analysis of the economics of information technology. Citation Laureates reflect researchers whose work is of Nobel class and merits global recognition.
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Clarivate Reveals Citation Laureates 2026 Recognizing Transformative Scientific Breakthroughs
Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced the Citation Laureates 2026 , a distinguished group of 22 researchers whose work is of Nobel class...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MIMS student Priya Charagondla was a Library AI Literacy and Instructional Design Intern at @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social, where she designed a Library Staff AI Exchange event. There, she presented research on how libraries can leverage AI to enhance accessibility.
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Empowering the UC Berkeley Community with Critical AI Literacies
post authored by: Priya Charagondla, Cody Hennesy, and Anna Sackmann The Library recently developed a shared direction for our engagement with artificial intelligence, in the form of the UC Berkeley ...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ph.D. student @laurenmarietta.bsky.social co-wrote an op-ed for @insidehighered.com, discussing why graduate students are leaving academia. "Graduate students are not abandoning academia. They are asking whether the academy, as it is currently structured, deserves their trust."
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Grad Students Wonder if Academia Is Worth Saving (opinion)
It’s not just the federal government that’s telling grad students their work doesn’t matter.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ph.D. alum @justintime.ai has been named "AI Science Advisor to the California Department of Technology" as part of the California's AI Science Residency Program. In his role, he'll advise senior leadership on California frontier AI safety legislation.
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CCST Launches California AI Science Residency Program on Frontier AI Safety with Appointment of First AI Science Advisors to the California Governor's Office
CCST's two inaugural AI Science Advisors were placed at the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and the California Department of Technology (CDT) to advise on frontier AI safe...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I School MIMS alum Anna Lanzino was recently featured in an article by @cltcberkeley.bsky.social. Lanzino graduated in 2025 and recently started her own cybersecurity advising firm, attributing her decision to the Cybersecurity Clinic class she took at the I School.
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UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic Alumni Spotlight: Anna Lanzino - CLTC UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
I School alum Anna Lanzino applied her experience with the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic to launch a consulting firm serving at-risk organizations
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
MIDS alums Alex Kim, Alex Lei, Sia Morris, and Elaine Chan are the minds behind the Varian Award-winning project EpiNTelligence, which helps collect and organize outbreak information for health officials. Check out the team's Q&A:
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Data Science Master’s Students Build Tool to Bridge Gap Between Epidemic Data and Public Policy Making
EpiNTelligence, by Summer 2026 Master of Information and Data Science alums Alex Kim, Alex Lei, Elaine Chan, and Sia Morris, is a tool that synthesizes fragmented data from existing sources such as th...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
LISTEN 🎧: @cltcberkeley.bsky.social Executive Director Ann Cleaveland spoke to @kqedforum.bsky.social about cyberattacks on local, public infrastructure. "Small cities or small operators sometimes think, 'We’re too small to be a target.'" she explained.
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How Prepared Are We for Cyberattacks on Cities, Water Systems? | KQED
How vulnerable are American cities and critical infrastructure like electrical grids, sewage treatment plants, and communications to cyber warfare?
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ticket sales end today! Our Centennial Celebration is next week! 🎉 Closing the day w/ a fireside chat: Dean Meyer, Prof. AnnaLee Saxenian, alums Thejo Kote, Tonya Nguyen & Larry Arpia, on the School's past, present & future. Join 9/26 at South Hall. bit.ly/3TYeghk
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Join us this Friday, Sept. 18 for a Cultural Analytics Lecture! Duke Prof. @aarthivadde.bsky.social discusses the early adoption of generative AI models in the work of English-language writers. 📅 Sept. 18, 12-1:30 pm 📍 210 South Hall & Online @ucbids.bsky.social shorturl.at/DuM0G
A promotional banner for an event titled "The Writer's Hand-at-a-Distance" hosted by Cultural Analytics. It includes an image of a person with "Aarthi Vadde" and "Duke University" written beside it. The event details are Friday, September 18, from 12 pm to 1:30 pm, at 210 South Hall & Online. The logos for BIDS and UC Berkeley School of Information are displayed at the bottom.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As the School of Information marks 100 years as a professional school at UC Berkeley, the I School community completed a strategic planning process, resulting in 7 priorities & 17 initial actions. Check out our priorities for the decade: shorturl.at/pz7rb
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
4 days left to register for the I School Centennial Celebration! Join us as we celebrate a century of history behind the School of Information on Sept. 26. Some events are sold out but there are still spots at our Dinner & Conversation event. 🎫 bit.ly/3TYeghk
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ICYMI 📰 Dang Nguyen, Bellwether postdoc scholar, was invited to give a keynote talk titled “Rendering Domination Technical: Gender and the Hardening of Digital Sovereignty” at the Statecraft, Sovereignty & Digital Government symposium at Goldsmiths, UK. digitalstatecraft2026.org
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Bellwether Lecture Series returns to the I School with a talk by @uni-wuerzburg.de Prof. @fotisjannidis.bsky.social! In his talk, Jannidis presents an experimental approach to modeling character abstractions. 📅 Tomorrow, Sept 9, 12:10-1:30 pm 📍 210 South Hall & Online bit.ly/4gqssc0
This image is a promotional banner for the "Bellwether Lecture Series." It features a headshot of Fotis Jannidis, associated with Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. The lecture titled "Fail Better? The Computational Study of Character Types in Narratives" is scheduled for Wednesday, September 9, from 12:10 pm to 1:30 pm PDT, at 210 South Hall and online. The design includes abstract elements in blue and yellow, with an open book illustration at the bottom right.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Prof. Josh Blumenstock is a featured speaker at Stanford University's World Development Report 2026, an all-day event on what AI means for developing countries, and how it can offer them a path to greater prosperity. 📅 Sep 24, 9 am–5:15pm 📍 Vidalakis Dining Hall, Stanford
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World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
In a time when development progress has dipped to its weakest pace in 75 years, artificial intelligence (AI) offers developing economies a rare path to greater prosperity. World Development Report 202...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ph.D. student Sarah Barrington spoke to @paloaltoonline.com, where she identified harms coming from AI content. "People have tried to rewrite history by altering content for hundreds of years. … AI has enabled us to supercharge an existing harm," she said.
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Sarah Barrington: 'It's always kind of an arms race'
“People have tried to rewrite history by altering content for hundreds of years. This tendency – to create narratives and push them out and create content that supports those narratives – is something that is inherent to the human experience.  But what ...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Bellwether Lecture Series returns to the I School with a talk by @uni-wuerzburg.de Prof. @fotisjannidis.bsky.social! In his talk, Jannidis will present an experimental approach to modeling character abstractions. 📅 September 9, 12:10-1:30 pm 📍 210 South Hall & Online bit.ly/4gqssc0
This image is a promotional banner for the "Bellwether Lecture Series." It features a headshot of Fotis Jannidis, associated with Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. The lecture titled "Fail Better? The Computational Study of Character Types in Narratives" is scheduled for Wednesday, September 9, from 12:10 pm to 1:30 pm PDT, at 210 South Hall and online. The design includes abstract elements in blue and yellow, with an open book illustration at the bottom right.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
MICS students Brandon Tarca and Sash Upadhyaya are the minds behind "TrustLayer AI," the Chang Award-winning capstone project. The project reads through chatbot prompts, scan for sensitive information, and make decisions around content redaction. bit.ly/4gHSbva
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Master’s Students Builds Tool To Analyze, Redact and Regulate Sharing of Confidential Information
As AI chatbots become more popular, people have increased the amount of confidential information shared with these tools — often without knowledge of the consequences. TrustLayer AI, by Summer 2026 Ma...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Join us for the I School Centennial Bday Celebration! 📣 We're celebrating 108 yrs since Berkeley's first full-time program in library science & 100 yrs since starting the Library School. 📅 Sep. 26, 1:30-8 pm 📍 South Hall Early bird tickets end TODAY!
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I School Centennial & Birthday Celebration
Sep 26, 2026, 1:30 pm - Join alumni, faculty, students, and friends as we celebrate a defining milestone in the history of the UC Berkeley School of Information.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social shared 9 fascinating new classes, including new Professor Kate Metcalf's "Data and the Body." The class is fully waitlisted and aims to give students practice digesting and discussing complex academic texts.
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From ghost stories to climate entrepreneurship, 9 fascinating new classes at UC Berkeley - Berkeley News
Learn about the span of new fall semester course offerings, including classes touching on cutting-edge research, modern ethical dilemmas and literary works across the centuries.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Get to know the MIMS Class of 2028! 54 students from around the world joined us, with 76% identifying as women and coming from backgrounds in business, biology, humanities, marketing, and more. www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2026/…
This image is an informational poster for UC Berkeley School of Information's Class of 2028 Master of Information Management and Systems. It highlights that there are 54 students, with over 76% having professional experience. The average age is 30, with ages ranging from 26 to 34. Students have an average of 5 years of work experience. Job titles include Data Scientist, Product Manager, and Software Engineer. The average undergraduate GPA is 3.6. Featured majors include Computer Science, Psychology, and Economics. The map shows students from Cameroon, China, Ghana, India, Japan, Mexico, Micronesia, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Check out this new exhibition premiering at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery! The exhibition Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations brings together 17 artists and researchers to make visible what AI keeps out of sight.
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Exhibit: Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations
Sep 3, 2026, 12:00 am - In a neural network, the hidden layers are the unseen strata between input and output. In this exhibit, seventeen international artists make visible what AI keeps out of sight.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
LISTEN 🎧: Ph.D. student Sarah Barrington was featured on an episode of journalist @marcfennell.bsky.social's new audio series:"Unreal: When AI Becomes Us". In the episode (Episode 3!), Barrington puts Fennell to the test to see if he can identify AI-generated audio.
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Unreal
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Something strange is happening to us. The intelligent machines we’ve built to serve us have started to sound like us, look like us and even think like us. The line between real and artificial is dissolving… so...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
MIDS student Sunil Thakur shared his thoughts about building an enterprise governance framework that'll keep up with the speed of AI innovation. "Risk, compliance, and security define the boundaries within which innovation can safely operate," he wrote.
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Building an AI Governance Framework for the Enterprise
From Trusted Data to Autonomous Operations
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This week, we welcomed our new MIMS and Ph.D. students during Orientation and celebrated the end of summer with our annual Welcome Picnic 🥰 It was a blast connecting with both familiar and new faces and we thank everyone for joining us! Event album: flic.kr/s/aHBqjD2Hj1
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Recent MIDS grad Alex Kim published a Medium article about lessons learned while doing his capstone project. "Ask not what the model can do. Ask what is preventing someone who already knows what they’re doing from doing it even better," he said. medium.com/berkeleyisch...
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Designing AI for People Who Already Know What They Are Doing
The most important question in AI design isn’t, “What can the model do?”
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ICYMI 📰 Anthony Li, MIDS student, gave a talk at Purdue University Global as part of a series of Autism Speaks events on predicting burnout phases to improve the quality of life for autistic individuals. www.purdueglobal.edu/student-experi…
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Prof. Emeritus Steve Weber penned an op-ed for @nydailynews.com to address a rising cost that many may not have noticed: software. As elections come closer, Weber believes candidates should discuss how they plan to eliminate the “software tax" alongside talks of general affordability.
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Americans face an invisible ‘software tax’
As the midterm elections approach, the top issue for voters is affordability and cost of living. Voters want candidates to talk about how they will address costs, and Democrats and Republicans are foc...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Prof. Emerita Annalee (Anno) Saxenian appeared on a panel with other experts to discuss concerns over a technology rivalry with China. “I believe that cutting off immigration, for example, would be shooting ourselves in the foot," she said.
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Can Silicon Valley keep pace? Experts warn against shutting the door in US-China tech race
At an Asia Society Northern California discussion, leading voices argued that the US risks undermining the innovation ecosystem at the root of its success
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
✨ Thank you all for joining us for the August MIDS Immersion! ✨ We hope you enjoyed your time networking with each other; listening to sessions; and learning about career pathways. We loved having you all on campus! Go bears 💙🐻💛 For more photos: flic.kr/s/aHBqjD2i6r
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Merici Vinton spent 4 years helping build & launch Direct File, the IRS's first free tax filing service. Her case study, ‘The Life and Death of Direct File,’ shows what it took to launch this tool, which served Americans until DOGE shut it down in 2025.
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The Life and Death of Direct File
Vinton, Merici, Melanie Girod, and Omar Morales. 2026. “The Life and Death of Direct File.” University of California, Berkeley.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Join us next tomorrow for the MIDS Capstone Showcase! Data science students will present their projects to their peers and a panel of judges for the chance to win the Hal R. Varian Capstone Award. 📅 August 13, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm 📍 Online
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Data Science Summer 2026 Capstone Project Showcase
Aug 13, 2026, 5:00 pm - Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
@cltcberkeley.bsky.social Director Ann Cleaveland co-wrote an article for the World Economic Forum, explaining the need for better security wherever physical AI is being procured or piloted. She recommends 3 immediate actions to help to start closing this security gap.
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AI incarnate, or agents of chaos? How to secure physical AI
Physical AI products are coming despite cybersecurity loopholes. Here are 3 immediate actions actors along the value chain can take to help close this gap.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business shared recent Ph.D. grad Susana Constenla-Villoslada's research, where she and other researchers piloted a machine learning system that can forecast malnutrition hotspots, in a collaboration with Kenya's National Drought Management Authority.
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Using machine learning to predict and prevent child malnutrition
A new system could forecast malnutrition hotspots before they occur and help humanitarian organizations target preventative aid.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Join us Thursday from 6 - 7 pm for a talk by CU Boulder Prof. Élika Ortega, where she'll discuss the work to compile and edit the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 5 so far. Part of the Digital Humanities series. 📅 August 13, 6- 7 pm PDT 📍 Online
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The Post-Digital Moment of E-Lit? The Shift in the Cultural Appreciation of Digital Technology in the Electronic Literature Collection Vol. 5
Aug 13, 2026, 6:00 pm - “Data, Power and the Ethics of Knowledge: A Digital Humanities Series” is presented by the Summer Program in Digital Humanities
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
LISTEN 🎧 On the most recent episode of SAS Software's Verifiably Authentic podcast, Ph.D student Sarah Barrington considers the ways AI and synthetic media influence our notions of culture, identity and trust. pondering-ai.transistor.fm/episodes…
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Pondering AI | Verifiably Authentic with Sarah Barrington
Sarah Barrington shifts from simply asking “real or fake?” to deeply considering the ways AI and synthetic media influence our notions of culture, identity and trust.    Kimberly and Sarah discuss ...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Join us next Thursday for the MIDS Capstone Showcase! Data science students will present their projects to their peers and a panel of judges for the chance to win the Hal R. Varian Capstone Award. 📅 August 13, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm 📍 Online
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Data Science Summer 2026 Capstone Project Showcase
Aug 13, 2026, 5:00 pm - Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
At the UC Berkeley Agentic AI Summit, @dailycal.bsky.social spoke to I School Dean Eric Meyer about the event. “This is the right kind of place for people to be talking about what the frontiers look like in AI — both the promises and the perils of that," said Meyer.
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UC Berkeley Agentic AI Summit brings together students, professionals around AI safety and innovation
UC Berkeley’s second Agentic AI Summit drew thousands of students, tech professionals and researchers Aug. 1-2 for a weekend conference centered around the new evolution of AI that can act
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@csmonitor.bsky.social asked Prof. Deirdre Mulligan about an incident in which the Trump administration appears to have deleted evidence of an artificial intelligence tool after an inquiry by the outlet. "When a reporter asks about something and it’s removed – that’s problematic," said Mulligan.
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A US agency listed an AI immigration tool online. The disclosure vanished after our inquiry.
Information about an AI tool the U.S. government was developing to help vet immigrant children’s sponsors disappeared from an agency’s registry after the Monitor asked about it.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
ICYMI 📰 Prod. Josh Blumenstock was appointed as co-chair of J-PAL’s Project AI Evidence, an effort funded by tech companies and foreign governments that “identifies, evaluates, and scales innovative applications of AI for social good and in the fight against poverty.”
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Project AI Evidence (PAIE)
Project AI Evidence (PAIE) identifies, evaluates, and scales innovative applications of artificial intelligence for social good and in the fight against poverty by bringing together adopters, tech com...
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Join us Wednesday for the MICS Capstone Project Showcase! 💻 🔒 Cybersecurity students will showcase their projects to their peers and a panel of judges. 📅 August 5, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT 📍 Online Event details:
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Cybersecurity Summer 2026 Capstone Project Showcase
Aug 5, 2026, 4:00 pm - Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
ICYMI 📰 Willie Macharia, MIMS student, gave a talk to the SF Bay Area Data Engineering Group in September 2025 about “Automating Data Operations on AWS with n8n”. The group is run by an I School alum, Shubham Gupta. Interested in speaking to the group? forms.gle/tb499mVtDM9mDdSUA
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SF and Bay Area Data Engineers Meetup - Speaker Registration
Register to be a speaker at the SF and Bay Area Data Engineers Meetup.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
ICYMI 📰 Serene Cheon, MIMS student, published her first first-author full paper, which was accepted to CHI 2026. 👏👏 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772318.3793…
The image features an academic article titled "Learning Inside the Chip: A Design-Science Approach to Developing MR Lab and an AI Agent for Conceptual, Procedural, and Spatial Understanding in Microelectronics Education" by Serene Cheon, Austin J. Stanbury, Pavnabbau Arjunamanthangachi, Himandhand Kottur, and Hyo Kang. The article is published in the CHI 2026 Conference Proceedings on Human Factors in Computing Systems. It includes options for viewing and downloading as a PDF/Reader. Published date: 13 April 2026, with 448 highlighted in blue at the bottom left.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Join us next Wednesday for the MICS Capstone Project Showcase! 💻 🔒 Cybersecurity students will showcase their projects & deliver compelling presentations along with a web-based final deliverable. 📅 August 5, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT 📍 Online
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Cybersecurity Summer 2026 Capstone Project Showcase
Aug 5, 2026, 4:00 pm - Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ecstatic to announce Dr. Kapoor's announcement to the I School! www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2026/sa...
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Sayash Kapoor Joins UC Berkeley with Focus on Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Sayash Kapoor has been appointed as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley. His new position will start in July 2027.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Prof. @dbamman.bsky.social was featured in an article by Communications of the ACM Magazine about LLMs struggling with history. “We can’t be sure whether we’re measuring a model’s true reasoning ability or its ability to retrieve an answer someone else has already given,” he said.
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Are LLMs Unstuck in Time? – Communications of the ACM
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Littlest Bear 5K is almost over! 🏃 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♂️ 👨‍🦽 There's still time to register to join us! Check to see if there's a local run/walk near you and remember to log your time on our leaderboard. 📅 July 20 - 26 www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/com…
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
ICYMI 📰 MICS alum Neha Dhage was accepted to a course by CITRIS and The Banatao Institute called “Tech policy design in an AI-driven world.” During this course, she spoke with experts on topics like platform governance & developed legislation recommendations on workplace surveillance.
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Graduate short course on tech policy and platform governance - CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Hosted by the CITRIS Tech Policy initiative, Tech Policy Design will convene graduate students from across the CITRIS campuses in October 2025.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Prof. Deirdre Mulligan spoke to @nytimes.com about news that two of OpenAI's models went rogue and hacked into digital library Hugging Face. "What do we gain, and if this is the only way these tests can be configured, what are the risks?” she asked.
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OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Hacked Into Hugging Face, a Digital Library
The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems.
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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This year, the I School launched four alumni chapters across the U.S. — San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle — as well as launched our inaugural Spring Week to bring alums together. www.ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2026/…
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New I School Chapters and Events Bring Alumni Together
This year, the UC Berkeley School of Information launched four alumni chapters across the United States. Chapter hubs were established in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle. Each chapte...
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