September 28, 2020
CS alumna Cecilia Aragon (Ph.D. ’04, advisors: Shankar Sastry and Marti Hearst) has written a memoir titled “Flying Free,” which describes how she shook off the tethers of discrimination and her debilitating fear of heights to become the first Latina pilot to win a spot on the United States Unlimited…
September 1, 2020
EECS alumni Dawn Tilbury (EE PhD ’94, advisor: Shankar Sastry) and Feng Zhou (CS PhD ’07, advisor: Eric Brewer) have been selected to present keynote addresses at the Berkeley China Summit (BCS) 2020 conference, which will be held virtually on September 18-19th. BCS is a full-day conference that aims to…
June 15, 2020
The creators of BerkeleyDB (BDB) have won the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Systems Award for their “seminal work in embodying simplicity, quality, and elegance in a high-performance key-value store that has impacted many systems and applications over the last 25…
June 9, 2020
A paper co-written by EECS alumnus Peter Mattis (B.S. ’97) is being presented at the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) International Conference on Management of Data this month. The paper, titled “CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database,” describes a cloud-native, distributed SQL database…
March 17, 2020
CS major Jason (XiangJun) Li and a few friends have developed a website designed to provide clear, reliable, up-to-date numbers and trends on the COVID-19 outbreak “for average Americans,” particularly those on mobile phones. LiveCoronaUpdates.org, which was launched last Tuesday, uses data released by the World Health Organization and official government…
February 3, 2020
Pieter Abbeel, the co-founder, president and chief scientist of the start-up Covariant, is featured in a number of articles appearing in major publications this week. The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired Magazine, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, and the IEEE Spectrum all feature articles about robots…
December 11, 2019
RISC-V, a royalty-free microprocessor architecture first developed at Berkeley, is emerging as a rival to Arm, the most successful microchip architecture in the world. The first RISC-V chip was built in 2011 as part of the open source Peer Lab Project by CS Prof. and alumnus Krste Asanović (Ph.D. ’98, advisor:…
December 11, 2019
An affordable, human-friendly robot developed by EECS Prof. Pieter Abbeel and Project Blue is among Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New” innovations for 2019. BLUE (Berkeley robot for Learning in Unstructured Environments) uses artificial intelligence and deep reinforcement learning algorithms to adapt to and operate safely in unpredictable settings, including the…
December 11, 2019
EECS Prof. and alumna Dawn Song (Ph.D. ’02, advisor: Doug Tygar) has been selected as a 2019 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Song was cited “For contributions to security and privacy” and is now part of an elite group that represents less than 1% of the Association’s global membership. …
December 10, 2019
EECS Prof. Trevor Darrell has been appointed chief scientist at Grabango, a provider of checkout-free technology for brick-and-mortar stores. Darrell is an expert in computer vision, machine learning and perception-based human computer interfaces, and leads the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (BAIR). He helped develop Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding…