Alumni News

Professor Brian Carver and Alumnus Michael Lissner Honored as Fastcase 50 Legal Innovators

Jul 10, 2014

Carver and Lissner are the co-founders of the non-profit Free Law Project; they were recognized as innovators in the delivery of legal services.

Berkeley I School Team Triumphs in Hackathon for Sustainable Fishing

Jun 16, 2014

When they awoke at the base of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s kelp forest, four School of Information students and alumni knew that this was no ordinary programming project.

New Grads Solicit Cryptocurrency Donations for Serbian Flood Relief

May 23, 2014

In response to the humanitarian crisis in the Balkans, two new grads of the I School are soliciting an unusual kind of support — donations of Bitcoin or Dogecoin cryptocurrencies.

SF Business Times Touts Alumni Start-Up Automatic

May 23, 2014

Salon Interviews Alum danah boyd About Her New Book

Feb 22, 2014

I School Startup MobileWorks Revolutionizes Outsourcing

Feb 18, 2014

How Government Documents Enable Transparency and Accountability

Feb 6, 2014

New research presents case studies from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; Rajasthan, India, at the turn of the 20th century; and a present-day Indian welfare system.

Michael Manoochehri (MIMS 2010) Publishes Data Analytics Handbook

Dec 16, 2013

Scholars Present New Research into Technology Use and Development

Dec 11, 2013

Faculty, Ph.D. students, and alumni present over a dozen papers, notes, demonstrations, and workshops at the international Information and Communication Technologies and Development conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

Non-Profit “Free Law Project” Provides Open Access to U.S. Case Law

Sep 25, 2013

Although case law is technically public domain, legal decisions are often scattered across the Internet, locked up in proprietary systems, and only available by paying exorbitant fees. A new non-profit aims to make these legal materials easily and freely available to all.