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The UC Berkeley School of Information is a multi-disciplinary program devoted to enhancing the accessibility, usability, credibility & security of information.

Berkeley, California, USA
Joined March 2011
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Voice cloning “kind of overnight, from quite technical to immediately consumer-accessible." Ph.D. student @SBarrington_ spoke to @sciam about how to tell if a voice recording is AI-generated, and what's needed to do so. scientificamerican.com/artic…
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Join the I School and @BIDS on Monday, Nov. 9, for the Cultural Analytics Series! @mmvty and @Wouter_Haverals present "Ends of Prosody: Histories, Methods, Frictions." 🕛 12-1:30 pm 📍210 South Hall & online bit.ly/48vH0C5
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ICYMI 📰: MIDS student Rachel Avram had a paper accepted to the Journal of Safety Research, “Impacts of Vision Zero Interventions on Pedestrian Casualties in New York City: An 11-Year Staggered Difference-in-Difference Analysis.” 🚦 ➡️ Read more here: on.nyc.gov/3UmLyaE
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ICYMI 📰: Emeritus Prof. Michael Buckland co-authored a paper, “On information science theory,” published in the Journal of Documentation. 📚 🔗 emerald.com/jd/article-abstr…
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Ph.D. alum @zephoria returns to UC Berkeley tomorrow! boyd will discuss what it takes to make democracy’s data — and what those who care about data and democracy should understand about the complexities of making high-stakes data. Register to attend: ischool.berkeley.edu/events/…
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ICYMI 📰: Ph.D. students @lauren_marietta and Janiya Peters received scholarships to attend the Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Program in July. 🎓 ➡️ Read more here: ischool.berkeley.edu/news/20…
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MIDS alumna Stephanie Andrews worked on Olladoc as a GRIL Research Fellow at Berkeley Law while finishing her master's! 🌍🎓 The free tool can translate into 55 languages and runs on a user's computer, not a public LLM. 👀 Read more here: bit.ly/4iedeGu
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Introducing the I School Bellwether Council! 🌟 11 philanthropic leaders are partnering with Dean Eric Meyer to advance the School’s top priorities: faculty excellence, real-world learning, and the future of South Hall. ➡️ Read more here: bit.ly/4BAygbm
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Give a warm welcome to new Bellwether Postdoc @avisokay! 📊 Adam will be working with Prof. Josh Blumenstock, studying how to measure changing populations through proxy measures. Fun fact: he's a former professional distance runner🏃 ischool.berkeley.edu/news/20…
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📲 I School Ph.D alum @danahboyd co-authored a @techreview op-ed on kids and social media bans. Authors argue that kids getting around age gates is a signal, and that policy should focus on company data practices instead. ➡️ Read more here: bit.ly/4sjGNuV
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ICYMI 📰: Ph.D. student @lauren_marietta and Prof. Diag Davenport received a Best Paper Honorable Mention for “Putting the ‘Practice’ in Critical Technical Practice: A Decision-Making Pedagogy for the Public Interest Technology Clinic.” Read more: bit.ly/4ikNYOL
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ICYMI 📰: MIMS student Anara Askhatsson received a BMO Capital Markets scholarship this summer and a $10,000 scholarship to support her education. She’s also an Outstanding Transfer Mentor and now a Graduate Student Instructor at CDSS. 🎉
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