December 13, 2016
CS graduate student Jun-Yan Zhu (adviser: Alexei Efros) is the subject of an article in California Magazine titled “Paint by Numbers: Algorithms for the Artistically Challenged.” Zhu and his team apply the tools of machine learning to computer graphics. For example, in the team’s most recent project, they developed…
December 12, 2016
All four EECS undergraduates nominated for 2017 Computing Research Association (CRA) research awards were recognized this year. EECS undergraduate Smitha Milli won the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for the female category, Jingyi Li won 2nd place nationally, receiving Runner-up in the female category, Ashvin Nair received Finalist recognition…
December 12, 2016
According to Business Insider, most college computer science rankings only include factors like the number of research papers published, global reputation, etc., while ignoring practical coding skills. HackerRank, a free coding practice website that allows developers to hone their coding skills by solving challenges, launched a University Rankings Competition…
December 7, 2016
December 5, 2016
CS graduate student Bill Marczak (adviser: Vern Paxson) is the subject of a Vanity Fair article titled “How a grad stduent found spyware that could control anybody’s iPhone from anywhere in the world.” Last summer, Bill stumbled across a program that could spy on your iPhone’s contact list and…
December 2, 2016
Dr. Scott Beamer’s dissertation titled “Undertanding and Improving Graph Algorithm Performance” has been selected to receive the 2016 Standard Performance Evaluation Corp (SPEC) Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award recognizes outstanding doctoral dissertations in the field of computer benchmarking, performance evaluation, and experimental system analysis in general. Papers…
November 17, 2016
EECS major Daniel Pok and CS major Isabel Zhang are featured in a Berkeley News article titled “Seeing is believing”. They are the co-founders of a student organization called VR@Berkeley. The club provides students access to virtual reality equipment and training and charters project teams to explore the applications and…
November 7, 2016
On Saturday, November 5, Berkeley hosted the 2016 Pacific Northwest Regional Programming Contest, part of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. In Division I, the Berkeley Blue team, comprising Keyhan Vakil, Evan Limanto, and Ruichao Chen, took second place, behind a team from the University of British…
October 7, 2016
EECS sophomore Alexandria Finley has been selected to compete in the 2016 Genée International Ballet Competition as one of the 10 participants sponsored by the Royal Academy of Dance. One hundred dancers will compete over 10 days this December in Sydney, Australia, at the Genée, one of the most prestigious…
October 7, 2016
Alexandria Finley wasn’t expecting to earn one of the ten places at the Genée International Ballet Competition this year that was sponsored by the competition, let alone one of the 100 places to compete. But without the sponsorship, she couldn’t afford to attend the 10 day competition in Sydney, Australia…