We are pleased to support our students sharing their work at the premiere conferences in their field. Tonya Nguyen presented on SFUSD's algorithmic school assignment system at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference in San Jose, Costa Rica.  Read more

BCNM is thrilled to support our students in their summer research. Read about Evan Sakuma on Triggered Identities!

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Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Summer 2024! Read more

William Morgan presented "Human-AI Interaction Design (HAIID): Synthetic Personae, Shoggoths and Alignment."  Read more

We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024!  Read more

Check out our faculty and alumni around the web this Spring, 2024! Read more

From secret CIA prisons to the images that train AI, this article shares how Trevor Paglen looks where we cannot see. Read more

Alum Edgar Fabián Frías talks to Sarah M. Chappell in The Think Piece podcast. Read more

Ken Goldberg in IEEE Transactions! Read more

TA for Transforming Tech or Digital Infrastructures this summer! Read more

Don't miss these great new media talks at 4S this year! Read more

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

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

Congratulations Alex Saum-Pascual, Asma Kazmi, and Jill Miller! Read more

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

Jeanne Carstensen spotlights Ken Goldberg's work on creative robots, the Kurzweil fallacy, and what it means to be human.

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We are thrilled to share our 2023 Summer Research Fellows from Architecture, Art Practice, Design, Education, Film & Media, Geography, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies!  Read more

Celeste Kidd's lab presented at the Cognitive Development Center Conference 2023. Read more

The fastest laundry-folding robot and other advances in automation. Read more

Transforming Tech: Issues and Interventions in STEM and Silicon Valley offered online with Matthew Berry! Read more

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

Applications are due February 1, 2023. Read more

Our alum Jen Schradie published this as chapter 28 in Part V Social Inequalities in the Digital Landscape of The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology. Read more

Our faculty member Tom McEnaney published this article with Kaitlyn Todd in Public Books, a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship . Read more

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

Tonya Nguyen's research with Samantha Robertson and Niloufar Salehi is featured in Oaklandside. Read more

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

Jen Schradie demonstrates that the Web benefits conservative messages. Read more

Hannah Zeavin and Yana Calou published the article in State of Mind. Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of architecture, technology, cognitive science, and more! Read more

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

Ken Goldberg's work was recently featured in the International Journal of Robotics Research. Read more

Congratulations to Abigail Lomibao and Jesse Clements! Read more about their projects here! Read more

Ken Goldberg's lab publishes "LEGS: Learning Efficient Grasping Sets for Exploratory Grasping." Read more

Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science!  Read more

BCNM executive commitee member Jenna Burrell has been promoted to full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information.  Read more

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

We extend a warm welcome to Professor Jenna Burrell, who has joined BCNM's executive committee. Read more

Professor Ken Goldberg's robotics startup, Ambi Robotics, has secured $26 million in funding. Read more

Ken Goldberg and his colleagues present Latent Space Safe Sets, a promising strategy for safe learning in high-dimensional state spaces. Read more

Jen Schradie's co-authored article on digital inequlities and content production was published in the Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media.  Read more

Pablo Paredes features on Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health's The Invisible Future of Health Monitoring. Read more

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

Film & Media student Kaitlin Forcier reviews de Young museum's Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI. Read more

Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more

Miyoko Conley, a TDPS and DE student at Berkeley, has been awarded the Outstanding GSI Award for her work as a GSI in NWMEDIA 151AC: Transforming Tech. Read more

Check out these great papers from Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented at the International Conference on Robots and Automation 2020. Read more

Ken Goldberg's work was recently presented at the 2020 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). Read more

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

Applications are now open and are due December 1, 2020.  Read more

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

"In the era of algorithms and big data [...] the issue of who is or is not “counted” profoundly affects visibility, access, and power in the digital realm." Read more

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

Bryan mapped a genealogy of knowledge which formed the foundation for the development of computerized human emotion recognition algorithms. Read more

Camille Crittenden was featured on the UC IT Blog, participating in a Q&A interview about her work at CITRIS and her experience as a woman in tech. Read more

We're offering a new course this fall, NWMEDIA 151AC: Transforming Tech! Don't miss out! Read more

Ken Goldberg's robotic art project, "AlphaGarden Collective," is currently featured in The Question of Intelligence exhbition. Read more

DE Juliana Friend and alum Reginold Royston presented their riveting research at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting last year.  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

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

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

Is media silence as powerful in shaping public discussion as deliberate rhetoric? If so, do editorial boards need to strategically amplify certain speech? Read more

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

The Berkeley Center for New Media is thrilled to provide small grants to our graduate students to help them share their innovative research at the premier conferences in their field. Read more

Artist Brian Bartz worked on custom computer-vision algorithms in alum Trevor Paglen's art studio in Berlin. Read more

More in the media from faculty Abigail De Kosnik, Nicholas de Monchaux, Ken Goldberg, and Tom McEnaney; and alumni Jenni Higgs, Andrea Horbinski, Jane McGonigal, Trevor Paglen, Ritwik Banerji and Jen Schradie.  Read more

Check out the highlights and videos from this incredible program, featuring Molly Steenson and Safiya Noble! Read more

Ken Goldberg contributed to "Extending Deep Model Predictive Control with Safety Augmented Value Estimation from Demonstrations." Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen collaborated with the Kronos Quartet to present Sight Machine on July 11th, 2019 at the Barbican. Read more

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

KC Forcier presented “Endless Images: Looped Media, Digital Temporality, and the Gallery" at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. Read more

We are thrilled by the ambitious and innovative work these students are completing, and are pleased to be able to provide summer funding to support their research initiatives. Read more

The New York Times hosted the New Work Summit. Read more about the recommendations Ken Goldberg and other experts made regarding the ethics of artificial intelligence.

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Katyal examines the civil rights in our algorithm future. Read more

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

This February 15th and 16th, this workship will by held in the University of California, San Diego.  Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen combines artwork with artifcial intelligence in an engaging musical performance with Kronos Quartet at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  Read more

Jane McGonigal developed a toolkit to help keep many large Silicon Valley tech companies, as well as start-ups, keep their priorities and ethics in check. Read more

Ken Goldberg's conversation around bias in AI was one of the key takeaways from TechCrunch's Disrupt SF conference.

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Ken Goldberg visited the University at Buffalo Department of Art as part of the Visiting Artist Speaker Series. Read more

Ken Goldberg was interviewed in the Robotics Business Review about robot grasping. Read more

Nicholaus Gutierrez taught New Media R1B: "Is Technology Evil" this summer. Read more

Ken Goldberg talks about mutually beneficial partnerships between AI and humans in an interview for MIT Sloan Management Review's Fall 2018 issue.  Read more

From architectural intelligence to cybernetics and play, algorithms of oppression to the human computer in the stone age, we have a fantastic line up for this year's program! Read more

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

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

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

Ken Goldberg was recently invited by the University of Michigan to give a talk on the campus about his previous work and research. Read more

Ilmar Hurkxkens and Mohammad Keshavarzi taught participants how to build a Virtual Reality environment from 3D point scan data of the historic Woo Hon Fai Hall. Read more

Ken Goldberg delivered a presentation at this year's EmTech Digital at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. Read more

Recap of the Software Arts, the last HTNM lecture of the year!  Read more

Trevor Paglen's work featured at exhibit at Frankfurter Kunstverein.  Read more

Geiger spoke on Computational Ethnography as part of U of M iSchool's speaker series.  Read more

Laurent El-Ghaoui's lecture 'Lifted neural nets' was the first seminar event of the Spring 2018 IEOR series. Read more

Abigail De Kosnik and alum Reginold Royston presented at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting 2017. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg sits down with the UCB Student Affairs to answer prospective students' questions. Read more

Ken Goldberg, member of RISElab and Chair of IEOR, comments on possible methods to control the AI challenges that are appearing. Read more

Eric Paulos (EECS, Jacobs Design Innovation) developed a design tool to allow artists and designers to plan for their creation's destruction and failure as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. 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

Stuart Geiger on the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture in ACM Proceedings. Read more

Stuart Geiger on the role of algorithmic systems in Wikipedian organizational culture in Big Data & Society. 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

Sonia Katyal, a BCNM faculty member and law professor at Berkeley, publishes an article on why you should be suspicious of that study claiming A.I. can detect a person’s sexual orientation. Read more

Microsoft teaches gliders how to fly on their own; Prof. Goldberg brings insight to this NYT article Read more

From software arts to self-tracking technologies, cybernetics to techno-ecologies, we are thrilled to introduce the speakers in this year's History and Theory of New Media program. Read more

Goldberg and Crittenden were at the "Inclusive AI: Technology and Policy for a Diverse Urban Future" symposium. Read more

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Check out Ken Goldberg's Chair Remarks at WAFR 2016 and other work by UC Berkeley students and faculty! Read more

What will you be learning this summer? We're offering two courses in New Media Read more

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

We're excited to see AMPLab transform into RISELab, which focuses on real-time secure decision stacks! Read more

Goldberg published an article, A Century of Art and Technology in the Bay Area, on Medium Read more

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The article discussed Goldberg's work in human-machine collaboration Read more

Kate Mattingly recaps Ahmed Ghappour's talk. Read more

Adam Hutz (Rhetoric) was one of five exceptional graduate students to be awarded a $1000 BCNM Summer Research Award. Check out what he's done so far! Read more

A packed house greeted the first panelists for the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, 2014 Read more

This year, thanks to the craigslist Chair endowment, we were able to support five graduates with awards of $1,000 to help defray technology and training costs. Read more

We are delighted to welcome 9 new graduate students to our Designated Emphasis and Graduate Certificate programs Read more

Symposium speakers shared their diverse experiences with online education and examined the conditions, opportunities, and tensions pertaining to learning online Read more

This year's theme is ""Big Data at Berkeley" Read more

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