David Wagner

UC Berkeley is back on top as the number one public school in the nation after being ranked second since 2020, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2022–23 rankings.

Coupled with waves of excitement, anticipation and hope of a new school year, the infamous large-size courses at Berkeley awaits new and returning students.

With UC Berkeley holding all of its classes for the fall 2020 and spring 2021 semesters online, engineering, data science and computer science instructors have had to adapt their teaching styles to meet the demands of remote learning.

Some UC Berkeley professors are choosing to offer their class lectures online and free of charge to the public on platforms such as the UCTV YouTube channel and edX, a website for free online classes.

On Monday, 54 students were mistakenly enrolled in "Foundations of Data Science," or Data 8. This incident occurred only days before the add/drop deadline, resulting in difficulties for those who changed their schedules based on this false enrollment assumption.

Your voice-commanded systems, such as Siri and Alexa, could be secretly listening to someone else’s commands without your knowledge, as concluded by a recent computer security study conducted by UC Berkeley researchers.

UC Berkeley is on the verge of establishing a major in data science through the College of Letters and Science, pending approval by the Academic Senate.

Data 8X, the course’s online equivalent, is free to audit, but students must pay in order to take exams and receive a certificate. This certification, however, will likely not transfer as academic credit or satisfy the data science major requirement, according to Cathryn Carson, the faculty lead of the Data Science Education Program.

Campus officials are alerting nearly 80,000 current and former faculty, staff, students and vendors about a criminal cyber security breach on a campus system, making vulnerable thousands of Social Security or bank account numbers.

National Security Agency staff will visit a camp developed to teach high school students about cybersecurity — hosted for the first time this year by UC Berkeley — this week to evaluate the program and decide whether to continue its funding.