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On March 31, Nicole Starosielski, Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley, presented work at BIDS on undersea cables and digital infrastructure “Facilitating Sustainability: Cable Landing Stations and the Alternative History of Network Architectures”.

Starosielski has been doing research on the physical installations that support Internet traffic, including data centers,...

This summer, I 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.

Having just graduated from UC Berkeley and taken a few data science courses, I was already familiar with Python and its many libraries. However, I had never been exposed to the inner workings of an open source project: the infrastructure, maintainers, and community efforts that allow Python to power countless projects worldwide.

Under the guidance of BIDS Executive Director...

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...

Today, the Police Records Access Project, part of the CLEAN initiative at BIDS, became a publicly available database following years of work by a multidisciplinary team of journalists, data scientists, lawyers and civil liberties advocates, led by the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), UC Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) and...