10 posts and columns on UC Berkeley

News Byte

Twitter Pairs With UC Berkeley for Big Data 10

in Social on May 2 at 5:30 am PT

The University of California at Berkeley plans to offer a class on big data to its undergraduate students during the coming fall semester, focused specifically on data analysis as applied to Twitter’s never-ending flow of information. In the company’s first official joint effort with a higher-ed institution, Twitter engineers will advise students throughout the semester-long course. Enrollees will have access to some company data, and an opportunity to present a project at Twitter HQ at the end of the term.

All I Know Is That I Don’t Know Nothing

Knowledge for my generation was at the center of the human quest. It is going the way of the recording industry. It is a term that won’t survive the generation.

– David Weinberger, researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, from a lecture last Wednesday at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Information

Gravity Wants to Instantly Personalize Any Content Site

in Social on November 16, 2010 at 3:45 pm PT

Gravity today is unveiling its plans to be an information filtering service. The idea is to combine social and semantic understanding of users to identify content they are likely to be interested in.

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Berkeley Prof Helped Divvy Up Search to Many Servers

in News on March 15, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

A connection to the University of California at Berkeley–and a lengthy record for innovations–seem to be winning attributes in this year’s big computing prizes. Eric Brewer has both.

Take Me Away From All These … Layoffs

in News on November 11, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Spammers: Sure, Our Sales Conversion Rates Are Low, but Lead Generation Is Through the Roof

in News on November 11, 2008 at 10:10 am PT

Not that there’s any reason to think otherwise, but the spam network business is not one that’s dependent on sales conversion rates. You’ve got to send a hell of a lot of spam to make a living at it.