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Lauren Tilton presents “Multimodal Cinemetrics”

July 10, 2026
Saumya Lohia

With so many movies, TV shows, and content coming out every year, analyzing media can seem daunting. However, with computational methods, new insights can be uncovered, but what exactly to measure is an open question. As a part of Cultural Analytics workshop week, Lauren Tilton, Professor of Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities from the University of Richmond in Virginia, presented her research on the use of computational methods to analyze film and television, a term she...

Peter Broadwell presents: “Gesamtkunstvektoren: Perceptual Embeddings for the Performing Arts”

July 8, 2026
Chenrong Zheng

Our conversations at BIDS around AI often begin not only with what new tools can do, but also how these tools might reshape the questions researchers ask. On March 17th, as part of the Cultural Analytics workshop week, Peter Broadwell, Head of AI Modeling and Inference in Research Data Services at Stanford University Libraries, explored this question in his talk “Gesamtkunstvektoren: Perceptual Embeddings for the...

UC Berkeley and UCSF Launch Computational Biomedicine Initiative

July 6, 2026

UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint program called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, tremendously accelerating advances in clinical care. The new partnership brings together world-class faculty expertise in computing, AI, statistics, biology and medicine, to speed discovery in everything from disease prevention, to early-detection and new therapeutics in healthcare.

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March OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: Roadmap Workshop for JupyterHub and Binder Share Out

April 29, 2026
Saumya Lohia

In March, the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Monthly Knowledge Exchange invited the JupyterHub team to share learnings and discuss their recent roadmapping workshop held on February 25 and 26, 2026. These monthly meetups are...

Insights from the CryoCloud JupyterHub community at the OSPO Meetup

May 13, 2026
Ankita Biyani & Chenrong Zheng

In February, the Berkeley Open Source Program Office (OSPO) hosted a monthly meetup “Open Science as a Process, Not a Product” with presenter Tasha Snow. Snow, a research scientist who co-founded the ...

Highlights from the UC Open Summit 2026

June 16, 2026
Lilli Wessling Hart

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and UC OSPO Network members hosted the second annual UC Open Summit in Berkeley, April 22-23, 2026. Guided by the principles of being genuinely enjoyable, small but mighty, and warmly collaborative, the tone was set for this gathering of 150 open source enthusiasts, researchers, and educators from across the University of California system. The future of open science, scholarship, and sustainability was top of mind for all...

Workshop on AI and LLMs for the study of folklore highlights collaboration between BIDS and Slovenian Researchers

June 24, 2025
BIDS Staff

AI Methods for Research of Folkloristic Narratives, an international workshop held on June 13 at the University of Ljubljana, brought together researchers from the US, Slovenia and other European countries to explore significant advancements in the application of AI in computational folkloristics.

As part of his keynote speech for the workshop, Tim Tangherlini, BIDS Associate Faculty Director,...

Bob Sturm presents: “I am Troubled”

May 5, 2026
Chenrong Zheng & Saumya Lohia

On March 6, 2026, the Cultural Analytics series welcomed Bob L. T. Sturm from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, for a talk and discussion about his research in AI-generated music. The Cultural Analytics series is a joint initiative between the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and the School of Information...

James Abello Monedero and Haoyang Zhang present “Graph Cities and Their Applications”

May 20, 2026
Yeonwoo Lee

March 17, 2026, marked the start of the Cultural Analytics Workshop Week cohosted by the Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS), the School of Information, and the Department of Scandinavian Studies. The week was filled with various presentations and discussions on multimodal models for the study of culture from guest speakers from around the nation and abroad.

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Peter Dodds presents "Telegnomics, Ousiometrics, and Archetypometrics"

April 24, 2026
Vincent Gu

Measuring meaning sounds like trying to weigh fog. You can point at it, you can feel it, but the moment you grab it, it slips between your fingers. In this talk from the Cultural Analytics Series, Peter Dodds, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont, starts with the...