Cal-ICOR homepage

Citation

Cal-ICOR (California Interactive Computing Open Resource), UC Berkeley. “Free Browser-based Interactive Programming and Data Science Platform for Every California Student.” Web page, cal-icor.org, usage “Updated Oct 25” (2026). https://www.cal-icor.org/. Read 2026-10-26.

Bottom line

The first public figures for Cal-ICOR: 1,907 students this term (fall 2026) and 4,369 students all time. By segment this term: UC 275, CSU 1,497 and community colleges 134.
Cal-ICOR is “a UC Berkeley-led initiative supported by the California Education Learning Lab”.
The site calls the platform “Free”. The proposal planned per-student or tiered fees.

Background

Cal-ICOR gives “a shared, scalable JupyterHub platform that removes hardware barriers”. See Cal-ICOR.

Key claims

Mission: “bring high-quality, cloud-hosted Jupyter environments and modular data-science curricula to public colleges and universities across California with zero local installation, zero software maintenance, and equal access for every student”.
Usage, “Updated Oct 25”: “1,907 students this term”, “4,369 students all time”, “148 students on Oct 24”.
Largest campuses this term: CSU Monterey Bay 556, UC Santa Cruz 275, CSU Sacramento 253, CSU East Bay 200, CSU Chico State 169, CSU Bakersfield 125, Diablo Valley College 106.
20 campuses in the table. UC Berkeley, CSU Fresno and Fresno City College show 0 students this term.
Tools: “JupyterLab, VS Code, RStudio, and SageMath, with support for R, Python, C++, and Java.”
Support: “a dedicated team focused on teaching, onboarding, and technical operations.”

Evidence and method

The program’s own site, with live counts. The segment figures add to 1,906, one less than the total.

Pages taken, and why (four, so five pages in all for this source):

Cal-ICOR Partner With Us: the partner list and the onboarding steps.
Cal-ICOR About: partners, staff and the long-term goal.
Cal-ICOR hub usage: users by term and month, and the count of institutions.

Limits

No costs, budget, staff count or compute size (CPUs, memory, cloud spend).
The site counts “students”. It does not state the method.