More good news on the Data Science front with a $12.5 million National Science Foundation award to UC Berkeley and MIT for the creation of the Foundations of Data Science Institute (FODSI). Peter Bartlett will be Co-Director of FODSI and other Berkeley PIs include Mike Jordan, Martin Wainwright, and Bin Yu.

For more detail:
https://data.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkeley-and-mit-awarded-125-million-s...
https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/announcements/090120.02.jsp.

Congratulations Bin, Martin, Mike, and Peter on this exciting project!