BCNM's Graduate Certificate in New Media provides Master's students with an introduction to the different facets of new media research and an ensuing competitive edge for some of the most desirable jobs in industry and academia. Fall 2025 applications are due November 1, 2025! Read more

We are thrilled to welcome this Spring's cohort—an amazing group of interdisciplinary scholars from Film and Media, Information Science, Spanish and Portuguese, Envrionmental Design, Art Practice, Engineering, and Landscape Architecture! Read more

Applications are due April 7, 2025. Read more

Calling all digital infrastructures experts! Be part of an exciting new curriculum. Read more

Applications due March 1, 2025. 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

Check out alum Trevor Paglen's incredible work around the web this fall! Read more

Congratulations to our Fall 2024 graduates! We wish them all the best in their future endeavors! Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2024 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students!  Read more

Congratulations to Alexis Wood for receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program award! Read more

Check out the work Ken Goldberg presented at the 2024 International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering! Read more

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

BCNM graduate Katherine Song will be joining Tu Delft as an Assistant Professor! Read more

Applications are due November 1, 2024! Read more

Katherine presented Füpop! Read more

A class by Ken Goldberg and Lisa Wymore is featured in Berkeley Engineer! Read more

Alum Eleni Oikonomaki in Placemaking Week! 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

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2023) Read more

Group Anything with Radiance Fields Read more

Applications are due March 1, 2024. Read more

Ken Goldberg talks the future of robots with Brian Heater. Read more

On this episode of the Robot Report Podcast titled, "2023 year in review: GenAI, humanoids dominate robotics industry", editors Steve Crowe, Gene Demaitre, and Mike Oitzman sit down and review their favorite robotics news stories from 2023. Read more

Ken Goldberg in IEEE Transactions! Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2023 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students!  Read more

Professor Eric Paulos has been appointed as the new Faculty Director of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation (effective 1 July 2023).  Read more

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

Alum Cesar Torres presented multiple papers, including "Cogcues: Shifting Perception through Interactive Projected Cues in Still Life Drawing," which won a Best Paper Award. Read more

Applications are due November 1, 2023. 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

Ken Goldberg joins host Mark Pesce to discuss the future of autonomous vehicles. Read more

Applications for Spring 2023 admittance are due March 1, 2023. Read more

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

Welcome Evelyn Arroyo, Nadeen Mohamed, and Andy Bui! Read more

Join us at BCNM curating and offering an exciting array of programs, including our popular Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium and Indigenous Technologies program! Read more

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

Check out BCNM at the 25th ACM Conference! Read more

Alum Pablo Paredes starts as an Assistant Professor at UMD this Fall. Read more

Join the Berkeley Center for New Media! Applications due November 1, 2022. Read more

The 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) took place in in Chengdu, China and Mexico City, Mexico.  Read more

Molly Nicholas and team received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more

Camille Crittenden asks how engineers, computer scientists and technologists might engage more actively in creating solutions. Read more

Shane Harris speaks to artist Trevor Paglen on Chatter to explore themes of surveillance, security, and secrecy.  Read more

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

BCNMers Molly Nicholas, Sarah Sterman, and Eric Paulos received a Best Paper Award for "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners." Read more

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

Congratulations to Greg Niemeyer for receiving a $25,000 grant for network visualizations! Read more

Berkeley Alumnae Tackle Language Gaps in Wildfire Emergency Communication. Read more

The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Read more

Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects is reviewed by Michael Eby in Artforum, discussing how digital graphics remade the material world. Read more

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

Check out Ken Goldberg's article on Simulating Polyculture Farming to Learn Automation Policies for Plant Diversity and Precision Irrigation! Read more

Congratulations to Lina Matine, Akemi Nagashiki, and Abigail Lomibao! Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media is now accepting applications for admission to the Designated Emphasis (DE) in New Media and the Graduate Certificate in New Media programs. All applications for Spring 2022 admittance are due March 1, 2022. Read more

"Easy for you, tough for a robot" spotlights the research of Ken Goldberg and team. Read more

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

Eric Paulos, Björn Hartmann, Jingyi Li and Molly Nicholas at the 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Read more

BCNM faculty Jacob Gaboury's book Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics was reviewed in GlassTire. Read more

BCNM alum Stuart Geiger presented at the 2021 Conference for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) about the labor behind maintaining free and open-source software projects. Read more

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, Camille Crittenden wrote an important reflection on increasing equity in STEM for the Berkeley Blog. Read more

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

Jessie Mindel was a recipient of this year's BCNM research fellowship, assisting Molly Nicholas and team on building a new web-based, collaborative design classroom tool. Read more

Ken Goldberg's AUTOLAB presented a slew of new papers at the 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). Read more

It was a whirlwind year for BCNM and we're so proud to share some of our greatest hits from 2021.  Read more

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

Ken Goldberg speaks on opportunities for robots in the e-commerce supply chain in an interview with RoboGlobal Insights. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg recently published the editorial for Science Robotics. Read more

Ken Goldberg was recently interviewed on the Cool Tools podcast to discuss cool gadgets he has around his house. Check it out! Read more

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

UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ken Goldberg recently sat down to talk about the future of robotics through the University of Toronto Robotics Institute Seminar Series.  Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to Emily Xia Que. Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by 13 BCNM students, faculty, and alumni! 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

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

danah boyd recently wrote an article on Linkedin titled "The US Federal Government Needs a VP of Engineering, not a CTO." Read more

Claudia von Vacano publishes an article on Electronic Book Review! Read more

A stunning seven papers were accepted at CASE 2020 from Ken Goldberg's lab. Read more

Creating sound based interactions raises questions: what makes a sound interesting? When is repetition boring, and when is it musical? Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in May 2020! Read more

Congratulations to our 2020 cohort, who are graduating with the New Media Undergraduate Certificate!

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The Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM) is thrilled to share that the College of Engineering (COE) will become our new administrative home on July 1, 2020.  Read more

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

Ken Goldberg was recently featured in VentureBeat for his work with UC Berkeley's AUTOLAB in developing a polyculture garden. Read more

Ken Goldberg, a UC Berkeley professor of robotics, his 10-year-old daughter Blooma, and science communicator Ashley Chase wrote a delightful children's book called How to Train Your Robot！ Read more

Ken Goldberg was invited to host an online discussion on "COVID-19, robots and us". Read more

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' annual conference features presentations by eight BCNM students, faculty and alumni! Read more

Ken Goldberg featured in report from Pew Research Center on  Experts Optimistic About the Next 50 Years of Digital Life Read more

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

Join the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), an interdisciplinary research center that studies and shapes media transition and emergence from diverse perspectives. Through critical thinking and making, we cultivate technological equity and fairness in our classrooms, in our communities, and on the internet.  Read more

More in the media from faculty Ken Goldberg and Koci Hernandez; and alumni Trevor Paglen, danah boyd, Jen Schradie, Tiffany Ng, Ritwik Banerji, Bo Ruberg, and Jane McGonigal.  Read more

De Monchaux discusses Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo on Planetary Radio, the Planetary Society podcast. Read more

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

Working at the intersection of art, robotics, and social media, Ken shares his thoughts on making robots less clumsy when grabbing objects. Read more

Ken Goldberg at BrainBar, on home robots and the relationship between robots and retirement. Nicholas de Monchaux on the moon suit at the Santa Fe Institute. Alum Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer in Real Life. Alum Jane McGonigal on the gamification of the warehouse. Alum Trevor Paglen on Our Privacy Mess and at Art Basel. Alum Jen Schradie at the Microworks Platform Conference. Read more

Stephanie Tang received a BCNM Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on Speculating the Smart City under the mentorship of Noura Howell. Read more

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

These students invested in the new media landscape at Cal, and we're excited to see what new endeavours they undertake in their respective fields Read more

Ken Golberg's robotics expertise was consulted in a Forbes article about Amazon's attempt to optimize its warehouse robots.  Read more

Goldberg is featured on the NewRetirement podcast in a brand new episode title, "AI, Automation and the Future of Work" Read more

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

Ken Goldberg gave a Special Robotics Seminar for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard Read more

Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due March 1, 2019. Read more

Ken Goldberg and other IEEE luminaries call for greater openness around reproducible benchmarks. Read more

Each year, undergraduates work closely with our graduate mentors on academic research. Read more

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

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

BCNM faculty Ken Goldberg is the keynote speaker Day 2 of RoboBusiness 2018.  Read more

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

The 20th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction was held in Las Vegas from the 15th-20th of July, 2018. Read more

The Dexterity-Network from AutoLab gets a well-deserved feature in the Daily Cal. Read more

This invitation-only, small, roundtable discussion that lasts several days to encourage in-depth discussions of frontier research of leading scientists around the globe. Read more

Applications are open to admitted graduated students at UC Berkeley and are due November 1, 2018. Read more

Eric Paulos was an invited Participant at the Dagstuh seminar "Embodied Cognition Meets Sensor/Actuator Engineering to Design New Interfaces." Read more

The Berkeley Center for New Media and Arts Research Center are hiring an Office Manager and Events Coordinator to maintain and develop their programs. Read more

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

Ken Goldberg, who was a keynote speaker at TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics, was featured on America CGTN. 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

Wenny Miao, recipient of a BCNM undergraduate research fellowship, was selected to work with Noura Howell on her project about urban sensing.  Read more

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

Trevor Paglen was named an artist fellow at AI Now Institute, tasked with supporting the institute's research in examining the social implications of artificial intelligence. Read more

We've collected Ken Goldberg and AutoLab's video and papers on their open-source Stewart platform design into one post. Read more

Alum Trevor Paglen to speak at Cleveland Museum of Art Read more

Paglen discusses his Orbital Reflector during "Speculative CubeSats" on the Center for Human Imagination's podcast.
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Each year, the BCNM selects four graduate student projects that we believe will both interest and prove engaging to undergraduates. Undergraduates apply to be a research fellow and once selected, they have the opportunity to work on high-level research in concert with our graduates, who mentor them on research methods. Read more

Prof. Ken Goldberg will demystify the science in WALL-E on Feb. 10th with JCCCSF. Read more

Ken Goldberg will be asking "Are Collaborative Cloud Robotics a Threat...or an Opportunity?" at IF GeekPark in Beijing on January 20, 2018. Read more

Ken Goldberg is quoted by CBS Local in discussing the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce. 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

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

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

Please welcome our new Executive Committee member Tom McEnaney! McEnaney works at the intersections of the history of media and technology, Argentine, Cuban, and U.S. literature, sound studies, and computational (digital) humanities.  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

Goldberg gives his opinion on Mark Sagar's creation "BabyX", a robotic baby that is terrifyingly lifelike.  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

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

Ken Goldberg and T-ASE's simplified second abstract was featured in an article for the IEEE RAS.  Read more

We look forward to sharing their future endeavors!

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Congratulations to Nicholas de Monchaux on being named a Bakar Faculty Fellow and recipient of the Spark Fund Award for 2017-2018! Read more

These awardees received an astounding $254 million in Department of Defense funding! Read about this incredible project here 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

The BCNM was thrilled to provide Cesar Torres (EECS) with a conference travel grant Read more

In the East Bay Express's monthly discussion, artists gather in Bay Area living rooms to discuss new media. Read more

Each of the following students have received funding to help defray the costs of presenting their research at the premiere conferences in their fields! Read more

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

At the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association's Urban Center in San Francisco Read more

This year the biennial ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) was held in Brisbane, Australia Read more

Laura Devendorf is a PhD Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information Read more

Professor Ken Goldberg had multiple papers accepted the 12th Annual International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Read more

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

Kate Mattingly recaps Ahmed Ghappour's talk. Read more

On Ken Goldberg's exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco Read more

We know these students will contribute to the vibrant interdisciplinary life of the Center Read more

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Leuphana University of Lüneberg Read more

The CITRIS Invention Lab is practically the home of contemporary innovation at Berkeley Read more

Mark your calendars — BCNM is hard at work bringing together a brilliant Fall 2015 program! Check out some of these great events! Read more

We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more

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

The Jacob's Institute for Design Innovation is offering this great class for undergraduate students! Information here. Read more

BCNM co-founder and director emeritus Ken Goldberg was recently interviewed by the NY Times for two separate pieces Read more

The Robot Film Festival is "an annual celebration of robots on screen and in performance" Read more

Follow Camille Crittenden on Twitter: [link no longer available] 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

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

Creating Minds, an academic conference on reading and writing in the digital age had over 300 attendees throughout the day's talks and panels! Read more

Applications for Fall 2013 admittance to both programs are due March 1, 2013 Read more

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

CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative Director, Camille Crittenden wrote for the Huffington Post on Tuesday to advocate for continued efforts to bring girls into STEM fields Read more

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Brian A. Barsky is Professor of Computer Science and Affiliate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science at UC Berkeley Read more

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

We mourn the passing of the influential media theorist Friedrich Kittler, who was a member of BCNM's international advisory board Read more

Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 14, 2011. Read more

The Social App Lab is an interdisciplinary initiative and supported at UC Berkeley by CITRIS Read more