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Experts Mine Questions of Big Data, Power, and Privacy

Apr 3, 2014

Capped by a keynote from Obama adviser John Podesta, a day-long workshop brought together the worlds of government, business, the law, and academia for what assistant professor Deirdre Mulligan called “a frank and honest conversation about our values,” and about how to balance those values with the omnipresent, often invisible collection of data about every aspect of our lives.

Tapan Parikh Is a Sloan Foundation Rising Star

Feb 18, 2014

Parikh is transforming the world’s poorest areas by designing, evaluating, and deploying appropriate information systems that support sustainable economic development.

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.

Data Science Master's Degree Kicks Off to Fill Growing Need Across Industries

Jan 23, 2014

The School of Information has officially started its new online Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program, preparing students to solve real-world problems using complex and unstructured data.

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.

Marti Hearst Named 2013 ACM Fellow

Dec 11, 2013

Professor Hearst was honored for her contributions to information retrieval and computational linguistics.

Hackathon Tackles Real Peace Corps Challenges

Nov 22, 2013

Programmers, designers, students, and innovators spent 24 hours in Berkeley’s South Hall for the Social Innovation Hackathon, knowing that their work could make a real difference for developing countries around the world.

Morten Hansen One of the Top 50 Management Thinkers

Nov 12, 2013

Thinkers50 is a global ranking of management thinkers published every two years.

I School Teams Sweep >Play Hackathon Awards

Nov 1, 2013

The challenge: design and build a system to give the world’s underbanked people access to financial services — in under 24 hours. I School projects took both first and second place.

Zachary Pardos, Scholar of Online Education, Joins I School Faculty

Oct 15, 2013

Pardos is an expert in the emerging field of educational data mining — applying data science methodologies to online learning environments to understand student learning.