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This Month at BIDS - May 2024

June 3, 2024

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Special Event Recap: Understanding the XZ Security Breach and Open Source Security

May 21, 2024

On May 9, 2024, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) partnered with the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) and the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public to host “Understanding the XZ Security Breach and Open Source Security”, not long after the XZ security breach was discovered. This event...

CERN Researcher Antonia Winkler presents her work at BIDS

May 6, 2024

Invited guest Antonia Winkler (CERN PhD student) stopped by BIDS last month to talk about her work and CERN with seminar attendees, and to meet with BIDS leadership. Attendees got a bird’s-eye view of CERN’s unique approach to open science (see abstract below).

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Chanwut (Mick) Kittivorawong presents his work “Spatialyze: A Geospatial Video Analytics System with Spatial-Aware Optimizations”

April 24, 2024

Chanwut (Mick) Kittivorawong, student of BIDS Faculty Affiliate Alvin Cheung, led a seminar recently at which he featured his work on Spatialyze, a new framework for end-to-end querying of geospatial videos.

Spatialyze comes with a domain-specific language where users can construct geospatial video analytic workflows using a 3-step, declarative, build-filter-observe paradigm....

This Month at BIDS - April 2024

April 22, 2024

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BIDS is hiring an Executive Director, join us!

April 15, 2024

This is an exciting time for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS); as we embark in a new era within Berkeley's recently founded College of Computing, Data Science and Society, we are looking for a talented Executive Director to join our team and lead new initiatives and programs.

After a decade that shaped Berkeley's Data Science programs, we now have an opportunity to ask where we should go next. I started as Faculty director this year, joined by...

Arash Ardakani gives special presentation on DiffSampler

April 12, 2024

During a recent Zoom session, BIDS Research Scholar Arash Ardakani gave a special presentation DiffSampler: A Differential and Inherently Parallel Sampling Method for Verification to BIDS Faculty Director Fernando Pérez and others.

Arash Ardakani Zoom screenshot

The presentation began...

Project Jupyter Wins Technical Advancement to Enable Open Science Award

April 1, 2024

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 for its...

This Month at BIDS - March 2024

March 18, 2024

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Professor Heather Haveman presents her work "Shades of Gender in Employee Discourse"

March 13, 2024

Professor Heather Haveman presented fascinating work with Will Rathje on gender in employee discourse in a recent BIDS seminar, using employee review data from the tech sector posted to Glassdoor.com. This is useful, because discourse is a reflection of the organization’s culture.

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