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title: "University of California, Berkeley: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "The University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher and clergyman George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-university-of-california-berkeley
type: Organization
wikidata: Q168756
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley
website: https://berkeley.edu
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
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# University of California, Berkeley

> The University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher and clergyman George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1868-03-23
- Headquarters: Berkeley
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://berkeley.edu
- Employees: 12,122 (as of 2020-09-01)
- Also known as: Berkeley University, Cal-Berkeley, U.C. Berkeley, Univ. of California Berkeley, University of California at Berkeley, University of California Berkeley, University of California–Berkeley, berkeley.edu, UCB, University of California College of Agriculture

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/UCBerkeley
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/uc-berkeley
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZAXKyvvIV4uU4YvP5dmrmA
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ucberkeleyofficial

## Key people

- Albert Einstein (German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955))
- Richard Dawkins (English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941))
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (American theoretical physicist (1904–1967))
- Michel Foucault (French philosopher (1926–1984))
- Hannah Arendt (German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975))
- Czesław Miłosz (Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004))
- Seamus Heaney (Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013))
- Steven Weinberg (American theoretical physicist (1933-2021))
- Ernest Lawrence (American nuclear physicist (1901–1958))
- Judith Butler (American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956))
- Ashraf Ghani (President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021)
- Otto Stern (German-American physicist (1888–1969))

## Ownership

Parent: University of California
Subsidiaries: University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Computer Systems Research Group, Haas School of Business, [International Computer Science Institute](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-international-computer-science-institute.md), University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science, Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Radiation Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Gump South Pacific Research Station, Plant Gene Expression Center, Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California Berkeley, Vice Provost for the Faculty, University of California Berkeley, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Quantum Coherent Science, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, World Inequality Lab

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on University of California, Berkeley, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-university-of-california-berkeley#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168756, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley

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