Events

The Chips Act subsidizes US and Taiwanese chip manufacturers to locate new facilities in the United States. What are the prospects for success?

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information and an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

The recovery of of biographical pages webpages for a hundred North American pioneers of Information

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Graduating 5th Year MIDS students present their data science projects.

How might AI reshape the sensory norms and moral economies of discernment of American mental healthcare?

Cybersecurity Clinic students share their experiences supporting environmental justice, trans community support, reproductive rights, and disability justice organizations.

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

The death by suicide of disabled Black teen Sewell Setzer III and his family’s lawsuit against chatbot company Character.AI have opened up renewed debate and uncertainty about AI safety.

Algorithms and AI impact access to work and other essential resources, especially for low-income people. Lily Irani describes  the policies, practices, and algorithms of suspicion that control workers’ access to wages and work on digital platforms.

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information and an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

Students from the Front-End Web Architecture class present their final group projects.

A talk by Marion Fourcade celebrating the publication of her book, The Ordinal Society.

Nicole S. Kuhn uses community-engaged research to understand how American Indian and Alaska Native communities leverage social media to deliver health information.

Venture capital investors push nascent tech firms to scale as quickly as possible to inflate the value of their asset. The gains generated by tech startups are funneled into the pockets of a small cadre of elite investors and entrepreneurs, leaving workers and users to bear many of the costs and risks.

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Biobanks and electronic health records systems are increasingly used to train and develop machine learning and artificial intelligence models, raising concerns for social equity and justice.

Cathy Marshall is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. 

The UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289) is a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. Join us to learn more.