October 26, 2018
2005 CS Distinguished Alumna Barbara Simons (Ph.D. ’81) is the subject of a Berkeley Engineering profile celebrating the 150th anniversary of U.C. Berkeley. Simons, who is a past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has been drawing attention to the pitfalls of electronic voting since 2003. She’s a…
October 8, 2018
EECS alumna Carol Shaw (EE B.S. ’77/CS M.S. ’78), one of the first female industrial video grame designers, is the subject of a University of Missouri, Kansas City News article celebrating women in STEM. Shaw, who was always drawn to engineering and math, used punch cards and Fortran for her…
October 2, 2018
The life and career of EECS Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy were celebrated with a commemorative bobblehead doll in her image at the 2018 Grace Hopper Conference (GHC) in Houston, Texas, last week. Bajcsy was recognized alongside Engineering and CS legends Grace Hopper, Annie Easley, and Mae Jemison by GHC sponsor Liberty…
September 26, 2018
Undergraduate Elizaveta Tremsina, a member of the EECS Honors Program who is triple-majoring in CS, Physics and Applied Math, took first place in the Microsoft-sponsored student research poster competition at the 2018 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing. Her project, titled “Your Story Recorded in a Magnet: Micromagnetic Simulations…
August 27, 2018
EECS alumnus Gary May (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. ’91, advisor: Costas Spanos), currently serving as the Chancellor of UC Davis, is one of the subjects of a Philadelphia Tribune article titled “ACROSS AMERICA: Three African-Americans Claim Rare Engineering Accomplishment.” May, along with two other African-Americans, was inducted into the National…
August 17, 2018
UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering has seen a 7 percent increase in the number of female students admitted for the 2018–19 academic year, according to the college’s admissions statistics. Multiple strategies have been implemented in recent years to increase the number of female engineering students: reaching out to middle school students,…
August 1, 2018
EE alumna Valerie Taylor (M.S. ’86/Ph.D. ’91) has been promoted to the position of CEO and President of the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in Information Technology (CMD-IT). CMD-IT is a national center comprised of corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profits, that is focused on engaging under-represented groups…
July 30, 2018
The inaugural edition of PanamaHackea, an educational hackathon for the peoples of Panama, will be held on Saturday, September 29, 2018, in Torre de Las Américas, Panama City. This event is the brainchild of 6 students from 4 schools, including Berkeley CS junior Rafael Félix, who hope to inspire and empower “a…
July 25, 2018
CS alumna Nancy Amato (M.S. ’88, advisor: Manuel Blum) has been chosen to lead the highly ranked University of Illinois Department of Computer Science — the first woman to hold that position. She will oversee a fast-growing department that has 80 faculty members and more than 2,400 students, plus 700…
June 5, 2018
Susan Eggers (Ph.D. ’89), the 2009 CS Distinguished Alumna, is the recipient of the 2018 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award–the first woman so honored in the award’s 39 year history. The award is administered jointly by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),…