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Big Data Meets Literary Analysis: Digital Humanities Research at the I School

Mar 21, 2018

Machine learning and big data don’t intuitively go hand-in-hand with studies of literary fiction; however, new research from Professor David Bamman, using a machine learning algorithm and natural language processing, revealed surprising trends related to gender in novels of the 20th century.

Great at Work: New Book by Professor Morten Hansen

Jan 31, 2018

I School professor and author Morten Hansen has released a new book: Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More. The book is the culmination of a ground-breaking five year research study that seeked to determine how to produce great work.

Winter Commencement: A Family Affair

Jan 22, 2018

The School of Information Winter Commencement ceremony on Sunday, January 21, 2018 was an emotional celebration of the 101 Summer and Fall 2017 graduates of the Master of Information and Data Science program.

DeepJams allows users to augment traditional music compositions with model-generated extensions. We use a neural network trained on a genre corpus to extend the gist of the user’s composition with the inspiration of a thousand others.

Commencement Awards Honor Graduates

Jan 21, 2018

The School of Information January 2018 graduation ceremony celebrated outstanding MIDS capstone projects and outstanding faculty and students.

MIMS Students Win at Hackathon for Small Business

Jan 18, 2018

Three first-year MIMS students, Conner Hunihan, Anu Pandey, and Soravis Prakkamakul, leveraged existing APIs to build a product streamlining workflow for small businesses at the Intuit Developer Small Business Hackathon.

Alum Galen Panger (Ph.D. 2017) Awarded iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Prize

Jan 9, 2018

Dr. Galen Panger is the winner of the 2018 iSchools Doctoral Dissertation Award. Dr. Panger’s dissertation, “Emotion in Social Media,” was judged the best dissertation from an information school in the iSchools organization.

Peter Rowland (left) and Steve Trush spent months examining CRIMS. - Photo by Darryl Barnes for East Bay Express

Berkeley I School Students Map Oakland’s Police Data

Jan 3, 2018

A team of UC Berkeley School of Information students is helping Oakland’s privacy commission figure out if ICE agents are accessing OPD computer data through a backdoor.

Professor Clifford Lynch Named 2017 ACM Fellow

Dec 12, 2017

Clifford Lynch is being recognized by ACM for his contributions to library automation, information retrieval, scholarly communication, and information policy.

Bailey Smith & Anne Wootton receive the Knight News Challenge award in 2012.

Pop Up Archive: From MIMS Final Project to Apple Acquisition

Dec 6, 2017

Apple bought Pop Up Archive, the Oakland-based startup, co-founded by MIMS alumnae Bailey Smith and Anne Wootton, that began as a MIMS Final Project in 2012.