September 13, 2019
Two EECS faculty and one alumnus are the authors with the most number of papers accepted to the upcoming 2019 Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), one of the most popular and influential AI conferences in the world. CS Prof. Sergey Levine took the top spot with 12…
September 10, 2019
The Berkeley Campus Memorial, which will be held on Tuesday, September 10, from 12 noon to 1 pm, will honor 6 members of the EECS community who died this year: alumna and ICSI member Sally Floyd (M.S. ’87/Ph.D. ’89, advisor: Richard Karp), alumnus and EECS faculty-in-residence/advisor to CITRIS Jean Paul…
September 8, 2019
EECS graduate student Carlos Biaou (M.S. ’18, advisor: Vivek Subramanian) has won a UC Berkeley Sather Gate Young Volunteer Award. Berkeley volunteer awards are given to “people who give generously of their time and expertise to serve the Berkeley community.” Biaou was the president of the Black Graduate Engineering and…
September 5, 2019
EECS alumnus Bruce Hajek (Ph.D. ’79, advisor: Eugene Wong), who has been on the faculty of the Grainger College of Engineering, and a researcher in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 40 years, has been named head of UIUC’s Department of Electrical and Computer…
September 5, 2019
CS alumna Sally Floyd (M.S. ’87/Ph.D. ’89, advisor: Richard Karp), best known as one of the inventors of Random Early Detection (RED), an active queue management scheme widely credited with saving the internet from collapse in the 1990s, has died at age 69. Floyd graduated from Berkeley with a B.A.
August 27, 2019
EECS alumnus Richard Din (B.S. EECS/B.A. Econ ’08), the co-founder of revolutionary food-delivery app Caviar, has imagined and helped to create a small, select, new course being offerred fall semester through the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET). The course, which cannot be documented or attended by visitors, will…
August 26, 2019
Berkeley Remix Podcast Season 4, Episode 2, explores the contributions of UC Berkeley Engineering to the rise of the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley in the 1960s and 70s. “Berkeley Lightning: A Public University’s Role in the Rise of Silicon Valley” focuses on the development of SPICE, the first…
August 22, 2019
EECS students, postdocs, alumni, and faculty were front and center at the 28th USENIX Security Symposium in Santa Clara last week. In addition to the Test of Time and Distinguished Paper Awards (see below), Keynote Speaker Alex Stamos (B.S. ’01), previously the Chief Security Officer of Facebook, highlighted the threat model work of current…
August 22, 2019
CS Profs. and alumni David Wagner (Ph.D. ’00) and Eric Brewer (B.S. ’89), and alumni Ian Goldberg (Ph.D. ’00) and Randi Thomas (M.S.) have won the 2019 USENIX Test of Time Award for their 1996 paper titled “A Secure Environment for Untrusted Helper Applications.” The paper, which introduced a fundamental…
August 7, 2019
The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing has announced the creation of the Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lectures, named in honor of CS Prof. Emeritus Richard Karp, the Institute’s Founding Director. The series will feature talks by leading researchers in the foundations of computing including Sanjeev Arora (Ph.D. ’94,…