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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 ...

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,...

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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From Friends to Modern Family to Saturday Night Live, these are just a few examples of famous and popular TV comedies. Even though they all belong to the comedy genre, these shows differ greatly in structure, including camera techniques, scripting, and overall style. There are different ways to identify what a comedy series is, such as the use of a laugh track or a live audience. However, another way to analyze comedy is through computational methods. A Professor of Data Science at the University of...