May 17, 2023
CS Professor Jelani Nelson has won the ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics. The biannual award is given to those who have made a “significant contribution through the use of computing technology.” Nelson is cited “for founding and developing AddisCoder, a nonprofit organization…
March 30, 2023
In honor of Women’s History Month, Berkeley EECS and BART worked together to Embrace Equity in STEM. Over the course of 50 years, both organizations have strived to be engines of societal change and social mobility, and they continue to do so today: BART, by providing fast, reliable transportation to…
March 20, 2023
Berkeley EECS led a strong showing at the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium. SIGCSE, held last week in Toronto, Canada, is the premier venue for innovations in CS education and pedagogy. The event boasts attendance of over 1000 computer scientists from around the world,…
August 31, 2022
Now in its 11th consecutive year, CS Kickstart held its one-week computer science immersion program earlier this month, ushering in over 95 attendees to the program, a record turnout. The program is designed to introduce female-identifying first-year students to computer science at Berkeley and aims to add more diversity to…
January 18, 2022
CS Profs. John Kubiatowicz and Ken Goldberg, along with Berkeley’s Director of Research IT, Ken Lutz, have collaborated with the Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) and the Lawrence Berkeley Lab (LBL) to create an animated series called “Tuff Pupil” which teaches children, ages 7 to 10, about important cyber security concepts…
July 13, 2021
“PlushPal: Storytelling with Interactive Plush Toys and Machine Learning,” co-authored by CS Masters student Deanna Gelosi (advisor: Dan Garcia), has won the Best Full Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Interaction Design for Children (IDC) conference 2021. IDC is “the premier international conference for researchers, educators and…
February 5, 2021
CS Prof. Jelani Nelson and Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe will be participating on a panel about the “Role of Computing in Africa’s Economic Future” at the University of Michigan Africa Week conference on Tuesday, February 16th, from 9:30 am to 10:45 (EST). U-M Africa Week brings together “thought leaders…
December 17, 2020
A 15-minute video version of the children’s book “How to Train Your Robot,” written by CS Prof. Ken Goldberg and his daughter, Blooma, has been released by the CITRIS Banatao Institute. Aimed at children ages six to eleven, it tells the story of a group of 4th graders who decide…
November 19, 2019
The Hopper-Dean Foundation has awarded the EECS department $2 million over two years to support diversity initiatives in computer science. The gift follows the success of a $1M grant awarded by Hopper-Dean in 2016 to include and support more CS students from underrepresented groups at Berkeley. The grant will fund…
April 17, 2019
Third-year Computer Science undergraduate Nolan Pokpongkiat is the third place winner of the KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize, funded by the U.C. Berkeley Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. The prize recognizes “students who have developed innovative strategies to increase opportunities for children and youth, as well as…