April 12, 2017
EECS Chair and CS Prof. Jitendra Malik will discuss Deep Visual Understanding from Deep Learning as one of the keynote speakers at the Embedded Vision Summit on May 2, 2017. The summit is the only event focused exclusively on the technologies, hardware, and software that bring visual intelligence to…
April 10, 2017
CS Prof. Emeritus David Patterson co-authored and presented a report on Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) at a regional seminar of the National Academy of Engineering, held at the Computer History Museum in Menlo Park on April 5, 2017. TPUs, which have been deployed in Google datacenters since 2015, are printed-circuit cards…
April 5, 2017
CS Prof. Michael Jordan, graduate students Philipp Moritz and Robert Nishihara, and research in the RISELab are featured in a Datanami article titled “Meet Ray, the Real-Time Machine-Learning Replacement for Spark.” Ray is one of the first technologies to emerge from RISELab, the successor to AMPLab and its host…
April 4, 2017
The paper “X-Trace: A Pervasive Network Tracing Framework”, authored by EECS alumi Rodrigo Fonseca (Ph.D. ’08) and George Porter (Ph.D. ’08) and Professors Randy Katz, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, has received the 2017 Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) Test-of-Time Award. X-Trace was…
April 4, 2017
Charles Bordenave, an EECS/Statistics postdoc (Sept. 06-07) has been awarded thePrix Marc Yor by the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) of France. Charles Bordenave was an EECS/Statistics postdoc co-supervised by Prof. Venkatachalam Anantharam (EECS) and Prof. David Aldous (Statistics) and is currently with the French National…
March 24, 2017
EE Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu, who participated in a semiconductor “Moore’s Law” panel discussion at the South by Southwest festival in Texas, is featured in an Electronic Design article titled “Forget Scaling. Moore’s Law Panel Talks Power Consumption.” Tsu-Jae, who helped pioneer the Finfet transistor in 1998, describes some…
March 23, 2017
Postdoctoral researcher Matthias Vallentin is developing VAST, a forensic analysis tool designed to help prioritize the investigation of computer security breaches. It complements Bro, a security tool devised by Prof. Vern Paxson when he was a graduate student 22 years ago and which is now used worldwide, to instantly collect huge volumes…
March 22, 2017
CS graduate student Baiyu Chen (advisor: Alexei Efros) and Anthony Barrs were awarded top prize and $50,000 for their design at the Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge. Their idea, profiled in an article for Fortune, was to construct a “Hyperlane,” or a single platform the size…
March 22, 2017
Tomás Vega, a senior computer science and cognitive science major, was part of a team that participated in the first collegiate Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM) event and which was profiled in a Jewish News article titled “Cal students pull a marathon to engineer disability solutions.” His team, led by…
March 15, 2017
Prof. Dan Garcia was interviewed in a PBS Newshour article titled “This Pi Day, use math to beat your friends at classic toy games”. To celebrate Pi Day, mathematicians and physicists explored three classic toys, hula hoops, yo-yo’s and Connect Four on ways to be the most successful…