Advancing knowledge and practice wherever people interact with information and technology

The Jacobs Foundation has awarded $325,000 over three years to UC Berkeley School of Information professors Morgan G. Ames and Jenna Burrell to study the growing inequalities in children’s digital access around the world. The grant, Connecting the EdTech Research EcoSystem (CERES), will bring together global leaders in computer science, psychology, neuroscience, education, and educational technology to help tailor digital technologies for children. 

“The Berkeley team’s expertise in inequality in both childhood and technology includes some of the world’s best known authorities in developmental psychology, information science, and ethics,” said Gillian Hayes, UC Irvine vice provost for graduate education and dean of the Graduate Division.

A group of UC Berkeley researchers, including I School Professors Aditya Parameswaran and Niloufar Salehi, recently won a 3-year, $2 million National Science Foundation grant to improve the useability of big criminal justice datasets for public defenders and others.

The new Effective Programming, Interaction, and Computation with Data (EPIC) Lab will create computing tools to help defenders, investigators and paralegals without coding expertise more easily research police misconduct, judicial decision-making and related issues for their cases. These tools will initially be used in San Francisco, Alameda and Sacramento.