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Professor and Department Chair @Berkeley_EECS. Research Scientist (part-time) @GoogleAI. Founder @addiscoder. 🇻🇮🇺🇸🇪🇹

Berkeley, CA
Joined February 2009
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Jelani Nelson
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Note the Section 174 change was reversed last month with the “One Big Beautiful Bill”.
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What do you want to know?.
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Any article on this topic should really mention TCJA’s changes to Section 174 of the tax code, effective 2022. It’s unclear that this has much to do with advances in AI.
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Natasha Singer
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Silicon Valley leaders for years promised high-paying jobs to kids who could code. Now, with industry layoffs and a rush to embrace A.I. coding tools, recent computing grads are struggling to land tech jobs.
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RT @AddisCoder: At the AddisCoder 2025 graduation we distributed 27 laptops to students thanks to a generous donation by X-School! https://….
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RT @AddisCoder: AddisCoder graduation is now complete. 121 students completed our 4-week program on algorithms, representing 13 kilils acro….
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RT @AddisCoder: We were also grateful to be visited by Emanuel Samuel, Co-founder and CEO of Zare Innovations, an Addis Ababa-based company….
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RT @AddisCoder: AddisCoder students inspired today by Samrawit Fikru's visit, Founder/CEO of Hybrid Designs which is behind RIDE, the leadi….
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Good to catch up with my friend @addisale in Addis Ababa, and to meet members from his team at @kazana_fund and Zare Innovations.
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RT @AddisCoder: Thank you Prof. Huy Nguyen of Northeastern for a great second week — we are now soon wrapping up week 3 with Prof. Huacheng….
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RT @EliBenSasson: How did I end up a Mathematician?. (long story).As a child, my dad said to me "our family isn't good in math" and I, pref….
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RT @robertnishihara: I don't think it's very widely known how big of a role @istoica05 and the research community at UC Berkeley have playe….
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"The database is the product of years of work by a multidisciplinary team of journalists, data scientists, lawyers and civil liberties advocates, led by the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), UC Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program (IRP) and Stanford.
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Los Angeles Times
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Searchable database on cases of police use of force and misconduct in California opens to the public
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RT @serinachang5: So honored to receive the KDD Outstanding Dissertation Award for my dissertation "Computational Methods for Human Network….
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RT @thehirschibar: @KTmBoyle Imagine being mad a billionaire pays school property tax and also pays out of pocket for his own kids.
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RT @profjoeyg: I am really excited to announce the release of LEANN. Most vector stores more than double the size of the data they index.….
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RT @UofCalifornia: Did you know that California farmers produce nearly half of all fruits, nuts, and vegetables consumed in the U.S.? UC pr….
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RT @jamcoders: Two weeks since the conclusion of JamCoders 2025! Congratulations to all the graduates, and thank you to all teachers, chape….
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RT @UofCalifornia: “As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate o….
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RT @boazbaraktcs: Has no one at the @nytimes taken a linear algebra class?
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“China has more than tripled its research spending since 2010 and continues to raise it every year. China understands what is at stake: leadership in AI, semiconductors, cybersecurity and advanced computing. If we back off now, foreign firms will not hesitate to build on the.
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Jeff Dean
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My longtime collaborator Dave Patterson (long-time faculty at @UCBerkeley, @TheOfficialACM Turing Award winner, and fellow @LaudeInstitute board member) wrote a very good op-ed about how continued investing in basic science and technology research is essential for the U.S. Dave.
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