By Keith Burbank. Bay City News.
The University of California at Berkeley will have a new faculty for the first time in 50 years.
University of California regents voted Thursday to establish the College of Computing, Data Science and Society to teach computing, data science and statistics to help solve some of society's problems.
The establishment of the new school comes after the creation of the Goldman School of Public Policy in 1969. A year before that, university officials established UC Berkeley's journalism school.
“We are thrilled to announce a new faculty at Berkeley that connects our excellent research and education in computing, data science and statistics with the many data-intensive disciplines across our campus,” Berkeley Provost Carol Christ said in a statement.
“Infusing the power of data science across multiple disciplines, from basic and applied sciences to the arts and humanities, will help us fully realize its potential to benefit society, help address our world’s most challenging problems, and achieve our most visionary goals,” Christ added.
UC Berkeley officials and others will celebrate the commencement of the new university at 7 p.m. Friday at the undergraduate commencement ceremony at the Hearst Greek Theatre in Berkeley.
Google Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan will deliver the keynote address, which will be streamed live.
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