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…
November 3, 2017
A UC Berkeley/UC Riverside research group that includes Prof. Jeffrey Bokor, Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin, postdoc Charles-Henri Lambert, postdoctoral fellow Jon Gorchon, and EE graduate student Akshay Pattabi have developed a new, ultrafast method for electrically controlling magnetism in certain metals, a breakthrough that could lead to greatly increased performance…
November 2, 2017
A paper co-authored by postdoc Pramod Subramanyan, grad student Rohit Sinha, alumnus Ilia Lebedev (B.S. ’10), alumnus and MIT Prof. Srinivas Devadas (M.S. ’86/Ph.D. ’88), and EECS Prof. Sanjit A. Seshia has won Best Paper Award at the 2017 ACM Conference…
October 30, 2017
Three papers with Berkeley authors received the Helmholtz Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017 in Venice, Italy. This award honors papers that have stood the test of time (more than ten years after first publication) and is bestowed by the IEEE technical committee on Pattern Analysis…
October 18, 2017
EE Associate Prof. Chunlei Liu has co-authored a study which has identified a specific molecular pathway that links maternal fever early in pregnancy to some congenital heart and cranial facial birth defects. The findings, which were published in the journal Science Signaling, suggest a portion of congenital birth defects…
October 17, 2017
Computer Science faculty in the Real-Time Intelligent Secure Execution Lab (RISELab) have outlined challenges in systems, security and architecture that may impede the progress of Artificial Intelligence, and propose new research directions to address them. The paper, A Berkeley View of Systems Challenges for AI, was authored by…