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Students’ Prize-Winning Apps Empower Tetraplegics

Nov 17, 2015

Six Berkeley I School students won the Play Conference hackathon grand prize for their app using virtual reality technology to empower tetraplegics.

How to Teach Information Visualization: Marti Hearst’s Secrets

Nov 10, 2015

Information visualization has expanded beyond the research lab into a wide range of professional disciplines and fields. Professor Marti Hearst has...

UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity Hires Executive Director, Senior Fellow

Oct 30, 2015

Executive director Dr. Betsy Cooper and senior fellow Jonathan Reiber join research center.

Hackathon Winners Develop App for People with Diabetes

Oct 26, 2015

MIMS students Brian Goodness and Owen Hsiao won first place in this weekend’s Hack2Health “Innovations in Diabetes” Hackathon. Their team designed an...

I Schoolers Named Finalists in Hackathon for Smart & Sustainable Cities

Oct 20, 2015

Four MIMS students developed a text-based messaging system to connect day laborers with local employers in this weekend’s Meeting of the Minds...

Legal Scholar Chris Hoofnagle Joins Berkeley I School Faculty

Oct 19, 2015

Hoofnagle is a scholar of information privacy law, consumer protection law, and cybersecurity. He will be joining the I School as an adjunct...

School of Information Hiring New Professor in Human-Centered Data Science

Oct 8, 2015

Position will begin July 2016; applications are due December 14.

Advances in Technology Mean Privacy is Doomed

Sep 24, 2015

“We’re going to have much less privacy in the future,” says Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, UC Berkeley’s new university librarian. Privacy and...

New Center to Fund Research on Technology, Society, and Policy

Sep 15, 2015

Is technology affecting our mental health? Can technology support free speech and still protect against harassment? How do we embed our biases in big...