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UC Berkeley Envisions a Data-driven Future with New College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
The University of California at Berkeley has announced it will establish a new college on its campus for the first time in over 50 years. UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society will meet the univ Read more…
MindsDB, AutoML Startup, Gains Seed Funding
The maintainers of an open source framework for automating machine learning projects have raised its profile with a comparatively modest but strategic funding round led by an investor with ties to a string of emerging AI Read more…
Why Every Python Developer Will Love Ray
There are many reasons why Python has emerged as the number one language for data science. It's easy to get started and relatively forgiving for beginners, yet it's also powerful and extensible enough for experts to take Read more…
Facing Up to Image Fakery
The folks who transformed digital imagery nearly three decades ago with the introduction of Adobe Photoshop are now using deep neural networks to help detect doctored faces and other faked imagery. Add newer social me Read more…
UC-Berkeley Expands Data Science 101
It is becoming increasingly obvious to college undergraduates that entering the data science field may be the quickest way to find a job in their field after graduation. The University of California at Berkeley, long Read more…
NSF Doubles Down on Data Science
The National Science Foundation has awarded two grants to the University of California at Berkeley, the first to deepen the theoretical foundations of data science, the second addressing the big data skills gap. The f Read more…
Meet Ray, the Real-Time Machine-Learning Replacement for Spark
Researchers at UC Berkeley's RISELab have developed a new distributed framework designed to enable Python-based machine learning and deep learning workloads to execute in real-time with MPI-like power and granularity. Ca Read more…