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Announcing the AI Futures Lab: A visionary partnership between BIDS and UC Investments

May 28, 2025
BIDS Staff

The BIDS Leadership Team is proud to announce a new hub for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data science, and society. In partnership with UC Investments, the AI Futures Lab is a pioneering model that directly connects UC’s intellectual capital with long-term investment strategy.

The Lab will occupy 5,000 square feet of flexible office space, conference rooms, and a seminar space one block from campus, where faculty and researchers can convene and work collaboratively and discussion between research groups and projects will...

This Month at BIDS - May 2025

May 22, 2025
Lilli Wessling Hart

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This Month at BIDS - April 2025

April 21, 2025
Lilli Wessling Hart

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Clancy Wilmott presents "Data practice as theoretical inquiry: machine learning, polygons and other notebook adventures in cartography and GIS"

May 22, 2025
BIDS Staff

On March 17, Clancy Wilmott, Assistant Professor in the department of Geography at UC Berkeley, presented her work "Data practice as theoretical inquiry: machine learning, polygons and other notebook adventures in cartography and GIS". Wilmott begins with describing a disciplinary war that is taking place in areas of research, like Geography. There is a technology of control but there are also important ways spatial data can be used to help people improve their lives. She navigates the two sides of the...

Hannes Bajohr presents his work "Artificial and Post-Artificial Texts: The Reader’s Expectation after AI"

April 18, 2025
BIDS Staff

On March 10, Hannes Bajohr, Assistant Professor in the Department of German at UC Berkeley, presented his work on “Artificial and Post-artificial Texts”, considering the reader’s expectations after AI.

As ChatGPT summarizes, with some help from Prof Bajohr to encourage succinctness:

“In this seminar, Hannes Bajohr explores how the widespread use of AI-generated texts...

This Month at BIDS - March 2025

March 14, 2025
Lilli Wessling Hart

Read our March newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar, sign up for our newsletter, and follow us (Bluesky •...

Fast and effective connections: the NetworkX developers’ retreat in February 2025

March 12, 2025
Jarrod Millman

In February 2025, I was part of the NetworkX leadership team that convened in Berkeley for a developers' retreat. We had three goals: to unblock some of our thorny development tasks, reflect on and update our long term vision, and spend time reconnecting in person.

Like many scientific open source projects, our team is distributed and primarily collaborates online. We coordinate work and engage community members around the world via our NetworkX GitHub repositories. We...

Director's Vision 2024

BIDS: a space for Open Scholarship, Open Source, and interdisciplinary collaboration on AI in science and society

April 15, 2024

Dear Berkeley Community,

I started as Faculty Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) in January 2024; today I would like to share some ideas I have for how BIDS can be a partner to your work. In the coming weeks the Associate Faculty Director, Professor Tim Tangherlini, will...

Project Jupyter Wins Technical Advancement to Enable Open Science Award

April 1, 2024
Lilli Wessling Hart

On March 21, 2024, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced the winners of the OSTP Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge. Project Jupyter, a community of open-source developers, scientists, educators, and data scientists, was recognized with the Technical Advancement to Enable Open Science award...

Nina Beguš presents her work "Artificial Humanities"

February 10, 2025
BIDS Staff

On February 3, Nina Beguš, a researcher and lecturer at UC Berkeley, presented her work "Artificial Humanities" to attendees at the BIDS Suite in Sutardja Dai Hall and online. We in the audience were invited to understand how fictional narratives shape the human creation and understanding of artificial intelligence.

Beguš focused on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion: published in 1911 and...