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Experts at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco have begun working to improve the treatment of diabetes and metabolic health using a first-of-its-kind open-source platform with broad societal benefits.
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UC Berkeley policy analyst from the Othering and Belonging Institute shares recommendations to protect people displaced from the climate crisis.
CITRIS Foundry welcomes 5 teams to fall 2023 incubator cohort
These teams are working to address significant societal challenges, including diagnosing and treating serious diseases and navigating an increasingly difficult rental housing market.
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Armando Fox and Dan Garcia, professors of electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS), are behind UC Berkeley’s pilot run, an endeavor they’ve dubbed “A’s for All (as Time and Interest Allow).”
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In fields from computer science and journalism to public policy and national security, scholars are working to advance online information integrity.
Anca Dragan describing her research during the CITRIS Research Exchange
UC Berkeley professor highlights how lessons learned in robotics concerning the importance of training and positive and negative reinforcement can apply to other virtual agents like large language models.
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The effort also results in an ultra-high resolution that is over 50 times more detail than current 3T scanners typically used in hospitals.
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UC Berkeley professor, one of the world’s leading experts on digital forensics and human perception, talks about the storm of digital disinformation so powerful that it’s putting lives, and democracy, at risk.
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Three leaders of the NASA-partnered project to establish a research park at Moffett Field met in a virtual event to discuss the transformational promise of the Berkeley Space Center.
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Established with a philanthropic investment of almost $17 million, the Haas School of Business is launching the Robert G. and Sue Douthit O’Donnell Center for Behavioral Economics to advance the field toward its next stage of evolution.
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A new UC Berkeley IGS Poll finds broad, bi-partisan worry that disinformation spread via social media will warp the 2024 election campaign.
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UC Berkeley researchers investigate and address the prevalence of misinformation and disinformation present on social media platforms like TikTok regarding sexual and reproductive health information.
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Scholars at Berkeley across a range of disciplines are probing the corrosive effects of algorithms, machine learning and other exotic technologies operating below the surface of the information landscape.
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UC Berkeley and Harvard researchers launch a study into psychedelics’ multifaceted influence on our society today.
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UC Berkeley chemists have come up with a simple and green way to convert methane and ethane into economically valuable liquids such as methanol and ethanol.
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UC Berkeley researchers present a new statistical technique for safely using the predictions obtained from machine learning models to test scientific hypotheses.