Berkeley School of Information
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The UC Berkeley School of Information is a multi-disciplinary program devoted to enhancing the accessibility, usability, credibility & security of information.
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Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Digimarc CEO Riley McCormack, Prof. Hany Farid, and Raรบl Torrez will be on a panel about safeguarding the development of AI.
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January 22, 2024; 4:30 - 6:00 PM
๐ Banatao Auditorium
Register now:
eventbrite.com/e/safeguardingโฆ
Join us tomorrow evening for the #BerkeleyMIDS Capstone Showcase!
This virtual showcase will feature 6 impressive #datascience projects eligible for the Hal R. Varian Capstone Award.
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Thursday, 12/23, 5:00 - 7:30 pm PT
๐ Learn more: bit.ly/48pZWQJ
And the Emmy Award goes toโฆ
To find out, join us this evening for the #BerkeleyMIDS 5th year Capstone Showcase! Stop by online to learn about 6 of our students' impressive pieces of work.
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TODAY, 4:00 - 6:30 pm
๐ Online
๐ Learn more: bit.ly/48ktT4Q
MIDS alumni Romain Hardy, Joe Klepich, Ryan Mitchell, Steve Hall, and Jericho Villareal published their Capstone project in nature's Scientific Reports with the help of Assistant Prof. Cornelia Ilin.
Check out more:
ischool.berkeley.edu/news/2023/midsโฆ
'As voice cloning has improved, I've been seeing an increase in these types of fakes,' says Hany Farid.
Podiatrist Dana Brem found her voice cloned and used for promoting a product she'd never heard of. MedPage Today
medpagetoday.com/special-reportโฆ
ICYMI ๐ฐ Justin D. Norman passed his preliminary exam in June. Justin is focused on understanding the abilities and inabilities of AI as it is being applied in high-stakes forensic settings. ๐ ๐
Prof. Joshua Blumenstock & Daniel Bjรถrkegren wrote a piece for the IMF, stating that AI must be carefully adapted to benefit the poor based off research in Kenya, Togo, and Sierra Leone.
๐ bit.ly/3uCeE8A
Incoming I School lecturer Nina Beguลก has been featured by Yonhap News Agency ๐๐
ICYMI ๐ฐ Michael Buckland, professor emeritus, and Olivier Le Deuff
from Universitรฉ Bordeaux Montaigne presented a workshop on the life and ideas of Robert Pagรจs, the French documentation theorist and social psychologist, at the Document Academy annual meeting in Paris, France.
Join us on Wednesday evening for the #BerkeleyMICS Capstone Showcase!
6 amazing masterpieces will be on display at this gallery of innovation, so stop by online to enjoy these artists speak about their projects.
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Dec. 13, 4:00 - 6:30 pm
๐ Online
๐ bit.ly/47UtBSs
At the New America Public Interest Tech-UN Convening, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity Exec Director Ann Cleaveland appeared on a panel to discuss how companies can build public interest concerns into their business models, and build trust with the general public.
๐ bit.ly/3T0tAaH
In an article by CNN's Donie O'Sullivan & Brian Fung, Prof. Hany Farid reflects on how the availability of sophisticated AI tools is bound to affect the election cycle. As a result, the Biden campaign has built a new AI taskforce.
cnn.com/2023/11/30/polโฆ
Thrilled to share that my NLP research, 'Polyglot or Not?', from Berkeley School of Information has been accepted to EMNLP 2023! ๐ If you're attending this weekend shoot me a DM and let's chat LLMs! ๐ค๐ฌ #emnlp2023
Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2305.13675