April 26, 2018
Researchers, including Prof. Vladimir Stojanović, have developed a method to fabricate silicon chips that can communicate with light and are no more expensive than current chip technology. Stojanovic initially led the project into a new microchip technology capable of optically transferring data which could solve a severe bottleneck in current devices…
April 23, 2018
CS Prof. Eric Paulos and his graduate students in the Hybrid Ecologies Lab, Sarah Sterman, Molly Nicholas, and Christine Dierk, have created a prototype of a wearable color- and shape-changing braid called HäirIÖ. The hair extension is built from a custom circuit, an Arduino Nano, an Adafruit Bluetooth board, shape memory alloy,…
April 10, 2018
Graduate student Xue Bin “Jason” Peng (advisors Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine) has made a major advance in realistic computer animation using deep reinforcement learning to recreate natural motions, even for acrobatic feats like break dancing and martial arts. The simulated characters can also respond naturally to changes in the…
April 10, 2018
Prof. Ali Javey, postdoc Der-Hsien Lien, and graduate students Matin Amani and Sujay Desai have built a bright-light emitting device that is millimeters wide and fully transparent when turned off. The light emitting material in this device is a monolayer semiconductor, which is just three atoms thick. It opens the…
April 9, 2018
Prof. Stephen Derenzo is quoted in an article for Australia’s Particle about a new material for a proposed detector of weakly interactive massive particles (WIMPs). Derenzo is the lead author of a study published March 20 in the Journal of Applied Physics about a crystal called gallium…
April 3, 2018
At the ASPLOS conference in late March, John Kubitowicz and his group from 2000 were celebrated for their paper, “OceanStore: an architecture for global-scale persistent storage.” The paper was named Most Influential Paper 2018, and the authors receiving the award included David Bindel, Yan Chen, Steven Czerwinski, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels,…
March 5, 2018
A paper released on arXiv last week by a team of researchers including Prof. Dawn Song and Ph.D. student Nicholas Carlini (B.A. CS/Math ’13), reveals just how vulnerable deep learning is to information leakage. The researchers labelled the problem “unintended memorization” and explained it happens if miscreants can access to…
December 20, 2017
Prof. Ben Recht has won the Neural Information Processing System (NIPS) 2017 Test of Time Award for a paper he co-wrote with Ali Rahimi in 2007 titled “Random Features for Large-Scale Kernel Machines.” Deep learning, which involves stacking many neural networks on top of one another to learn the…
December 13, 2017
Prof. Murat Arcak, alumnus Samuel Coogan (M.S. ’12/Ph.D. ’15), and their co-authors on the paper titled “Traffic network control from temporal logic specifications,” have won the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding Paper Award. The award is presented annually by the IEEE Control Systems Society to recognize…
November 17, 2017
A new book, Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees, by EE alumnus C. L. Hoang (M.S. ’82), is set to be released by Willow Stream Publishing tomorrow. Hoang was born and raised in Vietnam during the war and came to the US in the 1970s. He wrote this travelogue about his…