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   The School of Information is UC Berkeley’s newest professional school.
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   The School of Information offers four degrees:
   
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   The School of Information's courses bridge the disciplines of information and
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   Research by faculty members and doctoral students keeps the I School on the
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   Call for Nominations: Dean of the School of Information
   
   The School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, invites
   applications and nominations for our...
   
   New Data Visualization Research Points to the Importance of Text in
   Information Visualization
   
   Hearst has begun explicitly studying the relationship between language —
   especially written text — and information...
   
   Two UC Berkeley Research Centers Collaborate to Expand Cybersecurity
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   A Computational Approach to Reducing Inequality in the Criminal Legal System
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DEGREE PROGRAMS

MASTER OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND SYSTEMS (MIMS)

Educating information professionals to provide leadership for an
information-driven world.

PH.D. IN INFORMATION SCIENCE

A research program for next-generation scholars of the information age.


 

MASTER OF INFORMATION AND DATA SCIENCE (MIDS)

Online degree preparing data science professionals to solve real-world problems.

MASTER OF INFORMATION AND CYBERSECURITY (MICS)

Online degree preparing cybersecurity leaders for complex cybersecurity
challenges.


I SCHOOL NEWS

Call for Nominations: Dean of the School of Information

The School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, invites
applications and nominations for our next Dean. The next Dean will continue to
build on the School’s successes while working to increase student enrollment,
recruit a more diverse faculty and staff, and strengthen the school’s financial
position through fundraising and diversifying revenue streams.

The School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, invites
applications and nominations for our next Dean. 
New Data Visualization Research Points to the Importance of Text in Information
Visualization

Over the last two years, aided by Ph.D. student Chase Stokes, Hearst has begun
explicitly studying the relationship between language — especially written text
— and information visualization. She put various ideas together for an invited
keynote talk at the IEEE Vis conference in October 2022, and in a corresponding
paper in the Communications of the ACM this October of 2023.

Hearst has begun explicitly studying the relationship between language —
especially written text — and information visualization...
Two UC Berkeley Research Centers Collaborate to Expand Cybersecurity Internships
to Meet Growing Cyber-Workforce Demand
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and
the Banatao Institute (CITRIS)...
Breaking Barriers: Leadership Development Program Advances Gender Equity in Tech
Through a series of workshops, guest speakers, and access to influential
mentors, the Leadership Development...
New Research Offers a Comparative Study of Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity
Education
A team of Berkeley researchers has published a new report examining how
different universities approach the...


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TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES: STUDENT PROJECT EXHIBITION

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices
designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

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A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO REDUCING INEQUALITY IN THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM

Alex Chohlas-Wood demonstrates two ways that data science and information
technology can improve outcomes in the criminal legal system.

Nov 
29


COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR POLICE OVERSIGHT AND REFORM UNDER INCOMPLETE DATA

Analyses of police misconduct rely heavily on self-reported law-enforcement
data. Dean Knox proposes a research algorithm to deal with unreliable and
distorted data.


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