Timely event on May 9 at 4pm:
'Understanding the XZ Security Breach and Open Source Security'

A group of experts will gather to discuss the recent XZ security breach followed by a light reception. @[email protected] Juanita Gomez Jarrod Millman Nick Merrill

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Congrats to BIDS Faculty Director @[email protected] , who was honored by NASA with the 2023 Exceptional Public Service Award! Project Jupyter

Read more about it and see a few photos from the ceremony: bids.berkeley.edu/news/fernando-…

Delighted to be launching a Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at Berkeley Computing, Data Science, and Society , housed under BIDS - Berkeley Institute for Data Science and led by Jarrod Millman, long-time scientific python developer and leader.

Huge thanks to Sloan Foundation Josh Greenberg for their ongoing support for Scientific OSS!

Help us find a BIDS Executive Director!

BIDS has an exciting future with Faculty Director Fernando Pérez @[email protected] leading the way. Read his vision: 'BIDS: a space for Open Scholarship, Open Source, and interdisciplinary collaboration on AI in science and society' #AI #DataScience #OpenSource
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Happening now, on Zoom: BIDS Seminar with Arash Ardakani 'I recently proposed a novel differentiable sampling method, called DiffSampler, that employs gradient descent (GD) to learn diverse input samples. In this talk, I introduce DiffSampler...' events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/240…

On May 31, this one-day workshop on veridical data science will include 3 invited sessions:
→ Reproducibility and Stability, Veridical Data Science in Medicine, Reproducible Coding Practice
See the full program with invited speakers and their talk titles! bit.ly/3UZXHju

UC Berkeley PhD students: Call for Graduate Fellowship Applications (deadline: April 29, 2024)
- NSF funded Computational Research for Equity in Legal Systems (CRELS) and NIH funded Computational Social Science Training Program (CSSTP)
berkeley.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_02…

For AI Researchers, Thinkers, Founders, and VCs:

Announcing our Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI!

bit.ly/springsummitai…

We discuss core challenges & promising avenues in a day of high-profile keynotes & panels. Lunch & Reception included.

April 15th, Bay Area,…

Project Jupyter, a tool launched by researchers at UC Berkeley and The CSU, is a winner of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Open Science Recognition Challenge! Congrats to Project Jupyter, @[email protected], and others!
whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

The Big Give fundraising event begins at 9pm PDT on March 13!

BIDS is a unique interdisciplinary space for collaborations on open source, open platform, open knowledge and the role of AI in Science and Society.
#DataScience #opensource #CalBigGive

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Join us for the Inaugural Berkeley-Stanford Workshop on Veridical Data Science on May 31, 2024!
4 keynotes, 9 invited speakers & a lightning talk session
Learn more: bit.ly/3UZXHju
Stanford Data Science Berkeley Statistics #DataScience

My co-author Rebecca Barter and I are thrilled to announce the online release of our MIT Press book 'Veridical Data Science: The Practice of Responsible Data Analysis and Decision Making' (vdsbook.com), an essential source for producing trustworthy data-driven results.

Next week! Professor Tina Eliassi-Rad will speak on 'The Complex Systems View of AI Ethics'
→ Register now for this free event
events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/229…

BIDS’ Center for Cultural Analytics welcomes Professor Tina Eliassi-Rad to UC Berkeley on March 7, speaking on 'The Complex Systems View of AI Ethics'
→ Register now for this free event: events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/229…

Call for Project Partner Applications -> CDSS’s Data Science Discovery Program has extended the deadline to December 18th. The perfect students for your project are out there! data.berkeley.edu/discovery/part… Berkeley Computing, Data Science, and Society

Read about the Agile Metabolic Health project led by BIDS incoming faculty director Fernando Pérez and co-director of CPH Ida Sim:

Super excited to share that I’ve joined @berkeley_eecs and @ucbids as a postdoctoral scholar 👩‍🎓. I look forward to working on interesting things w/ Aditya Parameswaran and the @ucbepic lab. I’m grateful for this opportunity, and the very warm welcome to @ucberkeley! 🙏

Check out this unique fellowship funding opportunity for launching climate change solutions based companies out of Universities and National Labs: labstart.xyz/apply

XD Workshops allow interdisciplinary collabs around a data type, ie. ImageXD, AudioXD, TextXD & GraphXD. This session dove into the history & future of these dynamic workshops. #2023ADSAAnnualMeeting
cody markelz Maryam Vareth, PhD 👩🏻‍💻 Justin Kitzes BIDS - Berkeley Institute for Data Science