The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation today (November 12, 2013) announced (as anticipated by some here) their $37 million investment "in building 'data science environments' for academic research. UC Berkeley was named as one of the three university partners, along with NYU and the University of Washington:
http://www.sloan.org/fileadmin/media/files/press_releases/datascience.pdf As part of that initiative, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) was also formally launched today; it will be opening in physical space in Doe Library in 2014: http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/datascience/overview-data-science Here's the D-Lab's excellent blog post, giving an overview of this announcement: http://dlab.berkeley.edu/blog/building-data-science Near-term, BIDS has kicked off a lecture series on data science, with three Fall 2013 lectures so far listed. The first of these takes place this Friday, November 15; for RSVPs: http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/datascience/2013-14-lecture-series FYI, Aron
