May 21, 2019
Salto the robot, first unveiled in 2016 by the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, is now equipped with a slew of new skills, giving it the ability to bounce in place like a pogo stick and jump through obstacle courses like an agility dog. Salto can even take short jaunts around campus,…
May 15, 2019
Recent graduate Chelsea Finn (Ph.D. ’18, advisors: Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine), has won the prestigious ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is presented annually to “the author(s) of the best doctoral dissertation(s) in computer science and engineering.” In her dissertation, “Learning to Learn with Gradients,” Finn introduced algorithms for meta-learning…
May 2, 2019
Graduate student Soham Phade and his advisor, Venkat Anantharam, have won the Best Paper Award at the 9th EAI International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets 2019). Their paper, titled “Optimal Resource Allocation over Networks via Lottery-Based Mechanisms,” was in the Games for Economy and Resource Allocation category. Phade’s…
April 15, 2019
Two papers by EECS faculty have been named 2018 IEEE Micro Top Picks by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH). The papers were “A Hardware Accelerator for Tracing Garbage Collection,” co-authored by Profs. Krste Asanović and John Kubiatowicz (along with Martin Maas), and…
March 8, 2019
A research paper by EECS Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin’s group that shows direct measurement of Negative Capacitance was highlighted in an article in Nature Electronics titled “Negative capacitance found.” Negative Capacitance is a new state of ferroelectric material that was discovered by Salahuddin in 2008 and promises to significantly improve energy efficiency…
March 8, 2019
CS Teaching Prof. and alumnus Dan Garcia (M.S. ’95/Ph.D. ’00) has authored more submissions in the 50 year history of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) than anyone else. Garcia authored 61 SIGCSE submissions accepted between 2003 and 2016 (submissions were counted…
March 7, 2019
9 papers co-authored by 6 EECS faculty, 13 students, 3 post docs, and 3 alumni have made it into the Top 10 research papers ranked by TOPBOTS in four categories of AI Research. TOPBOTS is the largest publication, community, and educational resource for business leaders applying AI to their enterprises. …
February 26, 2019
“Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach,” 6th ed. by Prof. Emeritus David Patterson and John Hennessy has won a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award (“Texty”) from the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA). Textys recognize excellence in current textbooks and learning materials. Works are judged by other textbook authors and subject matter…
January 17, 2019
CS Prof. Ken Goldberg and members of the AUTOLAB including postdoc Jeffrey Mahler (Ph.D. ’18), grad students Matthew Matl and Michael Danielczuk, and undergraduate researcher Vishal Satish, have published a paper in Science Robotics which presents new algorithms to compute robust robot pick points, enabling robot grasping of a diverse…
January 15, 2019
For the first time ever, an international team of researchers–led by Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin–imaged the microscopic state of negative capacitance. This novel result provides researchers with fundamental, atomistic insight into the physics of negative capacitance, which could have far-reaching consequences for energy-efficient electronics. “The upshot is that the opposite relation…