September 6, 2016
Profs. Sanjit Seshia, Ruzena Bajcsy, Shankar Sastry, Björn Hartmann, Claire Tomlin and Tom Griffiths are the principal investigators of a new large National Science Foundation project that will tackle the problem of designing “human Cyber-Physical Systems (h-CPS)”, cyber-physical systems that work in concert with…
September 2, 2016
Profs. Shankar Sastry and Pravin Varaiya have been elected as International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Fellows. The IFAC Fellow Award is given to persons who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, in the role as an Engineer/Scientist. Prof. Sastry is recognized for…
September 1, 2016
The research of postdoctoral scholar Oscar Beijbom (supervised by Prof. Trevor Darrell at the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center) is being used to help coral researchers speed up the under-sea mapping of reefs around the world. Beijbom’s neural-networking algorithm is part of a software project, featured…
September 1, 2016
The Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, which will focus on ensuring that AI systems are beneficial to humans, is being lead by Prof. Stuart Russell, a long-time advocate of incorporating human values in the design of AI. Associate Prof. Pieter Abbeel and Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan will…
August 25, 2016
Prof. Sergey Levine, EECS alumni Oriol Vinyals and EECS postdoc Wei Gao (working with Ali Javey) have been named on MIT Technology Review’s 2016 TR35 (Innovators Under 35) who push the edge of science, creating new approaches to tackling technology challenges. In the “Pioneers” category Prof.
August 23, 2016
Prof. Sylvia Ratnasamy has been selected by Networking Women for their inaugural list of “10 women in networking/communications that you should WATCH”. Over 100 people around the world submitted nominations for this list and the women nominated have all had impact on the networking field, early in their careers. Prof.
August 16, 2016
Prof. Marti Hearst and a team in the I School are featured in a Berkeley School of Information article titled “Teaching a Computer to Write Poetry”. The discipline of Natural Language Processing aims to analyze and understand human language. Computers are learning to respond using human…
August 15, 2016
Our Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Divisions both ranked third in the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities. UC Berkeley was once again named the top public university worldwide. The ARWU annually ranks more than 1,200 universities on the quality of both faculty and research. EECS…
August 12, 2016
Incoming CS Assistant Professor Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, alumnus Shoaib Kamil (Ph.D. CS 2012 under Profs. Armando Fox and Kathy Yelick) and alumnus Wojciech Matusik (B.S. EECS 1997), along with other researchers at MIT CSAIL, Adobe, U. of Toronto, Texas A&M, and U. of Texas have developed Simit, a programming language that…
August 3, 2016
Prof. Michel Maharbiz and Jose Carmena‘s paper on Neural Dust is featured by the online journal Neuron (Vol. 91, Issue 3, August 2016) in an article titled “Wireless Recording in the Peripheral Nervous System with Ultrasonic Neural Dust“. They, with Profs. Elad Alon and Jan Rabaey and a team…