What is data science? How did we get to this point? And how will we use data science in the near and distant future? Read more

Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this semester's Fellows. Read more

We're thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Ellie Hoshizaki and the Vibe-o-meter! Read more

We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Xinwei Zhuang presented their paper on ""Encoding Urban Ecologies: Automated Building Archetype Generation through Self-Supervised Learning for Energy Modeling" at ACADIA.

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Alexis Wood (Department of Geography & BCNM DE) presented her paper, “Erosion As Method(ology): Theorizing and Mapping Structures of Feeling” at the at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Annual Conference. Read more

Ken Goldberg co-authors a perspective essay on artificial intelligence and medical robotics for Science AI. Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022-2023!  Read more

Pieter Abbeel and Ken Goldberg on generative AI applications Read more

Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more

Congratulations to Akira Ono, Isabel Li, Nika States, Reica Ramirez, and Wish Wang! Read more

Ken Goldberg has been included in the Conference on Robotic Learning proceedings. Read more

Congratulations to Isabel Li, Riya Manimaran, and Xiaowen Yuan! Read more

Ken Goldberg is featured in the 6th Annual Conference on Robot Learning. Read more

William Morgan, a Fall 2021 Conference Grant recipient, presented “Are You R(obotic)? Can Visiting an AI Mind Tell Us Anything About Our Own?” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more

This interview with alum Michelle Carney is part of Women in AI Ethics (WAIE)’s “I am the future of AI.” Read more

Julia's dissertation is titled "Patterning Recognition: A History of Automated Visual Perception." Read more

Alum Michelle Carney speaks to the Experiencing Data podcast about her mission to bring machine learning and user interface design together. Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2022!  Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this May! Read more

Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this April 2022!

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Andrea Gagliano is featured in the first MLUX Seattle meetup. Read more

Michelle Carney talks us through tactics for building more human, more helpful, and more ethical AI + ML systems.  Read more

Google Developer Studio celebrated global women in tech and trailblazers in honor of women's history month, featuring our own alum Michelle Carney! Read more

Check out Ken Goldberg's paper on Neural Information Processing Systems! Read more

Ken Goldberg and team present "Dex-NeRF: Using a Neural Radiance Field to Grasp Transparent Objects" at the Conference on Robotic Learning. Read more

BCNM alum Noura Howell has joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in Digital Media. Read more

BCNM faculty Hannah Zeavin discusses empathy as a computational model in a guest post for AI Now Institute. Read more

Check out the amazing work from Ken Goldberg and team at the International Conference on Machine Learning 2021!  Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni around the web this August! Read more

This semester, we're supporting the History and Theory of New Media, Locative Media, Adversarial Networks, and Against Innovation. Read more

Ken Goldberg co-authored a paper with Zaynah Javed, Daniel S. Brown, Satvik Sharma, Jerry Zhu, Ashwin Balakrishna, Marek Petrik, and Anca D. Dragan on Policy Gradient Bayesian Robust Optimization for Imitation Learning. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more

BCNM member and School of Information professor David Bamman co-published a paper titled, "Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT." Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this December! Read more

Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more

Cornell Law Review published Sonia Katyal's article, "The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy." Read more

CHI has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but let's celebrate the incredible work of our students, faculty, and alumni who were slated to present! Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working on digital tools, ethnographic research, philosophical arguments, and more! Read more

In honor of Women's History Month, Andrea Gagliano visually reimagines U.S. history with female presidents. Read more

Check out the stellar BCNM students who were featured on Berkeley's Art + Design book, "Made at Berkeley."  Read more

Last year, both BCNM students and alumni presented compelling new research at annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2019. Read more

Xiaowei Wang, a Fall 2019 Conference Grant recipient, presented "Let's Have a Pearl Party: Style and Livestream in the Making of Subculture” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts annual meeting. Read more

Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this year's Fellows. Read more

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco presents Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen along with Kate Crawford penned an important essay on the politics of images in machine learning training sets Read more

We are thrilled to welcome to BCNM these talented students from across campus! Read more

The Creative Media Awards highlight how AI intersects with online media and truth and impacts our everyday lives. Read more

Alex Saum Pascual and Kyle Booten discussed wideranging topics including e-lit's social function and art in the age of mechanical reproduction! Read more

BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor this School of Information conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more

The Initiative seeks to work on systems for AI that integrate data, algorithms, context, and human values. Read more

Ken Goldberg shares his insights into machine learning in the New York Times. Read more

Trevor Paglen will co-host a featured speaker session at SXSW on March 9. Read more

Ken Goldberg to attend Amazon's re:MARS Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen joins Kate Crawford to discuss the biases and skews of artificial intelligence. Read more

Ken Goldberg reflects on how four exciting sub-fields of robotics — co-robotics, human–robot interaction, deep, learning and cloud robotics — accelerate a renewed trend toward robots working safely and constructively with humans. Read more

Alum Stuart Geiger, ethnographer of computation and computational ethnographer; research staff at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, gave a talk on the human aspects of data science research. Read more

BCNM DE student Molly Nicholas recieved the 2019 Snap Fellowship! Read more

Study from consulting firm Tata Communications on AI, co-authored by Ken Goldberg, covered in the press. Read more

The Electronic Literature Organization's 2018 Conference, Mind The Gap, took place in Montréal August 13th to 17th! Read more

The IDEO MLUX Industry Panel focused on Designing and using Data Science Ethically. Read more

The New York Times features robotic videos in "How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can." Read more

The article is titled: "De-instrumentalizing HCI: Social Psychology, Rapport Formation, and Interactions with Artificial Social Agents" Read more

The theme was "New Benchmarks, Metrics, and Competitions for Robotic Learning." Read more

Head to Spain this September to learn about Data & the Arts from Greg Niemeyer! Read more

Ken Goldberg was a speaker at ICRA 2018's workshop on advances in robotic warehouse automation.  Read more

Ken Goldberg contributed a commentary piece on human-machine collaboration to The Wall Street Journal.  Read more

We are thrilled to welcome to our Executive Committee, Executive Director of Digital Humanities at Berkeley and the D-Lab, Claudia Von Vacano. Read more

Robots are slowing becoming master of dexterity, and Ken Goldberg is a leading engineer in the field. Read more

Greg Niemeyer's art installation with Olya Dubatova was exhibited at the Riddoch Gallery in South Australia. Read more

Ken Goldberg attended the annual Executive Leadership Conference to discuss Can Robots Really Handle Consumer Packaged Goods?. Read more

Rita Lucarelli's project on Egyptian landscapes will be funded by the CITRIS seed grant program. Read more

We are proud to welcome an amazing set of graduates from across campus to the Berkeley Center for New Media. Read more

Overwhelmed by the amazing panels at CHI 2018? Make your CHI experience a BCNM one with our guide to where our students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting! Read more

Ken Goldberg gave the opening keynote at IoT World USA Conference! Read more

Video from the conference, co-organized by Ken Goldberg, are now online Read more

Ken Goldberg collaborated with 16 other Berkeley researchers in composing a paper on their perspectives of systems challenges for AI. Read more

Ken Goldberg is quoted in a Daily Cal article about RoBhat Labs and their latest Google Chrome extension release, Botcheck.me. Read more

Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) and Nexar announce the release of videos and images for further research. Read more

Paulos and Goldberg are two of the many participating artists that will be featured at the "Illegal" exhibition special event at the Luggage Store Gallery. Read more

Ken Goldberg speaks on the new wave in robot grasping at the Collaborative Robots and Advanced Vision Conference November 16th, 2017. Read more

Greg Niemeyer's work is being exhibited at ZKM in their Open Codes exhibit from October 20th 2017 to August 8th 2018. Read more

Stuart Geiger gave a presentation in regarding autoethnographic methods for studying data-driven knowledge production in Boston, Massachusetts. Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger will be giving a talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Bay Area Science Festival in early November.  Read more

BCNM co-founder Ken Goldberg co-authored 3 research papers that will be presented at the first annual Conference of Robotic Learning. Read more

The Deputy Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute joins the SimCenter, an organization for research on natural hazards. Read more

David Bates headed to Paris to participate in a two-day seminar project on AI and "black boxes". Read more

Ken Goldberg was featured on NPR discussing robots and our automated future Read more

Goldberg was featured in an article by MIT's Technology Review on robot learning and human tele-operation of machines. Read more

The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research has a new chairperson! Read more

On the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives"  Read more

Their presentations spanned a wide range of study including street dance, machine learning and cyber-communication Read more

Are We There Yet?, A Responsive Sound Installation, Ken Goldberg & Gil Gershoni, Contemporary Jewish Museum, SF Read more