As the new home of the UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway building provides a welcoming entry point on the north side of campus. The building was designed by Weiss/Manfredi in collaboration with Gensler. (Photo/ Brittany Hosea-Small)
UC Berkeley faculty and key benefactors gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 13 to celebrate nearing completion on the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway building, the new home of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS).
Since becoming Berkeley’s newest college in the spring of 2023, CDSS has supported a diverse array of researchers and scholars who are not only developing cutting-edge new computing and AI technologies, but also harnessing the power of these technologies to provide ethical solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.
The Gateway will bring these efforts together in a beautiful and functional new space, creating a dedicated campus hub for AI-driven discovery and interdisciplinary collaboration.
“In creating CDSS, we recognized how much computing and generative AI was going to permeate all these other fields — from law and public policy, to chemistry and materials science, to climate science and astronomy — and conceived of the college as the place where we could seize opportunities and mitigate potential harms,” said Jennifer Chayes, Dean of CDSS. “We have created the intellectual infrastructure to support this work, and now we have a stunning new physical space to support it as well.”
