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Josh Blumenstock at the Artifical Intelligence for Economic Development conference

Josh Blumenstock Honored for Research in the Public Interest

Apr 16, 2019

Prof Blumenstock received the Faculty Award for Research in the Public Interest for his research at the intersection of machine learning and development economics.

Data, Rivalry and Government Power: Machine Learning Is Changing Everything

Mar 28, 2019

Prof Steve Weber and Gabriel Nicholas (MIMS ’18) co-author an article for GlobalAsia explaining how digital technology has created economic rivalries.

Joshua Blumenstock: The Knowns and Unknowns of Big Data and Poverty Alleviation

Mar 18, 2019

Joshua Blumenstock cautions that new digital methods of approaching issues of poverty must be used as a complement to more traditional approaches.

Bringing Public Values into Technical Systems

Mar 11, 2019

Berkeley and 20 other universities are forming a new consortium, the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), to support the development of new technologies, and to explore what policies and safeguards must be put into place to ensure that they will work for the benefit of society.

Christina Papadimitriou at MIDS Immersion with Oski

Fellowship Recipient Uses Data Science to Fight for LGBTQ Rights

Mar 6, 2019

MIDS student Christina Papadimitriou received the Spring Paul Fasana LGBTQ Studies Fellowship for research using data science for LGBTQ rights.

Fellowship Recipient Addresses Homelessness in Bay Area and Beyond with Data Science

Feb 20, 2019

MIDS student Sudha Subramanian received the Spring 2019 Jack Larson Data for Good Fellowship for her research using data science to understand homelessness.