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,…
August 5, 2019
A viral real-time AI art application, co-created by three current and former graduate students of CS Prof. Alexei Efros, has won two coveted awards–Best in Show and Audience Choice–at the SIGGRAPH 2019 Real-Time Live Competition. The interactive application, called GauGAN, was co-created by Ph.D. candidate Taesung Park during a summer…
August 2, 2019
CS alumnus Bill Kramer (Ph.D. 2008, advisors: David Culler and James Demmel) has been selected as the next director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), a joint research center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Kramer, currently project director and PI of the Blue Waters Project and the senior associate director for …
August 1, 2019
EECS alumna Valerie Taylor (M.S. ’86/Ph.D. ’91, advisor: David Messerschmitt), currently the director of the Mathematics and Computer Science division of Argonne National Laboratory, has been named a 2019 Argonne Distinguished Fellow. Distinguished Fellows hold the highest scientific and engineering rank at the laboratory. Taylor, whose research focuses in the areas…
July 17, 2019
Recent CS alumnus Shawn Magee (B.A. ’19) and Haas student Raja Riahi are developing an app called Wymbo to help UC Berkeley students navigate the campus’s many events and activities. They co-founded Wymbo inside Berkeley startup accelerator SkyDeck as a discovery platform: students choose what types of subjects they’re interested…
July 5, 2019
An untethered bee robot co-created by EE alumnus Robert J. Wood (PhD ’04, advisor: Ron Fearing) graces the cover the of the June 2019 issue of Nature magazine and is the subject of a Wired article titled “What Could Possibly Be Cooler Than RoboBee? RoboBee X-Wing.” Wood, now a professor…
July 1, 2019
CS Prof. Emeritus David Patterson, his former graduate student Zhangxi Tan (PhD ’13), and Lin Zhang of the Tsinghua-UC Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI), have been chosen to co-direct the new RISC-V International Open Source (RIOS) Laboratory, an non-profit research lab launched by the TBSI. RIOS aims to expand and elevate…
July 1, 2019
The Community Memory Project, a 1970’s era counterculture experiment co-founded by EECS alumnus Lee Felsenstein (B.S. ’72), is the subject of an article in California Magazine titled “’We’re Using a Computer’: Was Social Media Invented in Berkeley?” Members of the public were invited to interface with a carboard box “terminal”…
June 25, 2019
EECS alumna Gitanjali Swamy (Ph.D. ’97) testified in defense of a proposed bill (S939) she helped to draft which calls for sexual harassment and discrimination laws in Massachusetts to apply not only to employers but to investors and financiers as well–particularly private investors such as venture capitalists. The purpose of…