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UC Berkeley Inaugural Tech Policy Week and Summit Talks Trust, Privacy, and Governance

Gathering the thought leaders in technology and public policy, the School of Information, Goldman School of Public Policy, ...
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Professor Marti Hearst Warns About Biases in AI-Powered Search Engines

Long before hard drives and hyperlinks became symbols of modern life, humans etched stories on cave walls and on parchment ...
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Probing the limits of mobile phone metadata for poverty prediction and impact evaluation

Barriga-Cabanillas, O., Blumenstock, J. E., Lybbert, T. J., & Putman, D. S. (2025). Probing the limits of mobile phone metadata for Poverty Prediction and Impact Evaluation. Journal of Development ...
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Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Welfare Effects of Digital Credit: A Randomized Evaluation in Nigeria

Digital loans, which provide short-term, high-interest credit via mobile phones, have exploded in popularity across low- and middle-income countries. This paper reports the results of a randomized ...
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Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models

Qizheng Zhang, Changran Hu, Shubhangi Upasani, Boyuan Ma, Fenglu Hong, Vamsidhar Kamanuru, Jay Rainton, Chen Wu, Mengmeng Ji, Hanchen Li, Urmish Thakker, James Zou, Kunle Olukotun (2025). Agentic ...
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The Landscape of College-Level Data Visualization Courses, and the Benefits of Incorporating Statistical Thinking

Branson, Z., Paz Parra, M., & Yurko, R. (2025). The Landscape of College-Level Data Visualization Courses, and the Benefits of Incorporating Statistical Thinking. Journal of Statistics and Data ...