August 25, 2016
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy has been named on MIT Technology Review’s “Seven over 70” list, giving recognition to innovators over 70 who are still working. Prof. Bajcsy is a roboticist still actively publishing at the age of 83. She is also director emerita of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology…
August 25, 2016
Prof. Sergey Levine, EECS alumni Oriol Vinyals and EECS postdoc Wei Gao (working with Ali Javey) have been named on MIT Technology Review’s 2016 TR35 (Innovators Under 35) who push the edge of science, creating new approaches to tackling technology challenges. In the “Pioneers” category Prof.
August 23, 2016
Prof. Sylvia Ratnasamy has been selected by Networking Women for their inaugural list of “10 women in networking/communications that you should WATCH”. Over 100 people around the world submitted nominations for this list and the women nominated have all had impact on the networking field, early in their careers. Prof.
August 16, 2016
Prof. Marti Hearst and a team in the I School are featured in a Berkeley School of Information article titled “Teaching a Computer to Write Poetry”. The discipline of Natural Language Processing aims to analyze and understand human language. Computers are learning to respond using human…
August 16, 2016
Diane B. Greene (M.S. CS 1988) is ranked #1 of the 26 most powerful female engineers in 2016 by Business Insider. Diane was a founder and CEO of VMware in 1998 and is currently the Senior Vice President of (cloud) Enterprise Business at Google, one of the most influential…
August 15, 2016
Our Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Divisions both ranked third in the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities. UC Berkeley was once again named the top public university worldwide. The ARWU annually ranks more than 1,200 universities on the quality of both faculty and research. EECS…
August 12, 2016
Incoming CS Assistant Professor Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, alumnus Shoaib Kamil (Ph.D. CS 2012 under Profs. Armando Fox and Kathy Yelick) and alumnus Wojciech Matusik (B.S. EECS 1997), along with other researchers at MIT CSAIL, Adobe, U. of Toronto, Texas A&M, and U. of Texas have developed Simit, a programming language that…
August 8, 2016
EECS Alumnus Jacques I. Pankove (BS EE 1944/MS EE 1948), who received the Distinguished Engineering Alumnus award in 2000 for building the first gallium nitride light-emitting diode (LED), died on July 12, 2016 at the age of 94. A refugee of Czarist Russia, Pankove grew up in Marseilles before emigrating…
August 3, 2016
Prof. Michel Maharbiz and Jose Carmena‘s paper on Neural Dust is featured by the online journal Neuron (Vol. 91, Issue 3, August 2016) in an article titled “Wireless Recording in the Peripheral Nervous System with Ultrasonic Neural Dust“. They, with Profs. Elad Alon and Jan Rabaey and a team…
August 2, 2016
The Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation was spotlighted in an article in the California Council on Science & Technology (CCST) website titled “UC Berkeley and UC San Diego Explore Engineering Education of the Future through Making”. The Jacobs Institute is UC Berkeley’s interdisciplinary hub for students, teachers and…