November 7, 2018
UC Berkeley computer theorists led by CS Prof. Umesh Vazirani, published a proof of random circuit sampling (RCS) as a verification method to prove quantum supremacy in a paper published Monday, Oct. 29, in the journal Nature Physics. Quantum supremacy is the term that describes a quantum computer’s ability to…
November 6, 2018
A paper written by CS Prof. David Culler and alumnus Jonathan Hui (M.S. ’05/Ph.D. ’08) in 2008 titled “IP is Dead, Long Live IP for Wireless Sensor Networks” has won the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) 2018 Test of Time Award. The paper…
October 26, 2018
2005 CS Distinguished Alumna Barbara Simons (Ph.D. ’81) is the subject of a Berkeley Engineering profile celebrating the 150th anniversary of U.C. Berkeley. Simons, who is a past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has been drawing attention to the pitfalls of electronic voting since 2003. She’s a…
October 16, 2018
UC Berkeley is the top ranked university in the third annual Octoverse Report list of “Open source contributions made by employees of different organizations,” with 2700 contributions. Berkeley is the fourth ranked organization overall–after Microsoft, Google, and Red Hat. The Octoverse Report is…
October 8, 2018
CS postdoctoral researcher Urmila Mahadev (advisor: Umesh Vazirani) has come up with an interactive protocol by which users with no quantum powers of their own can employ cryptography to put a harness on a quantum computer and drive it wherever they want, with the certainty that the quantum computer is…
August 2, 2018
CS alumnus Jun-Yan Zhu (Ph.D. ’17, advisor: Alexei Efros)…
July 23, 2018
EECS graduate students Nick Antipa and Grace Kuo, along their advisor Associate Prof. Laura Waller, have penned an article for Photonics Media titled “Lensless Cameras May Offer Detailed Imaging of Neural Circuitry” about a new architecture which could enable simultaneous monitoring of millions of neurons in 3D space at…
May 31, 2018
“PerfFuzz: Automatically Generating Pathological Inputs,” written by graduate students Caroline Lemieux and Rohan Padhye, and Profs. Koushik Sen and Dawn Song, will receive a Distinguished Paper Award from the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2018 in Amsterdam in July. PerfFuzz is a method to automatically…
May 16, 2018
CS alumnus Aviad Rubinstein (Ph.D. ‘ 17, advisor: Christos Papadimitriou) is the recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Hardness of Approximation Between P and NP.” In his thesis, Rubinstein established the intractability of the approximate Nash equilibrium problem and several other…
May 1, 2018
The research of Associate Prof. Laura Waller is highlighted in a Berkeley News article titled “Editing brain activity with holography.” Waller is co-author of a paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience that describes a holographic brain modulator which can activate up to 50 neurons at once in a three-dimensional…