November 1, 2024
Division: CS
October 30, 2024
Robots could help close surgeons’ skill gaps and improve patient outcomes
Robots could soon play a larger role in surgery thanks to recent AI developments, experts said in a new Science Robotics paper published today. “A surgeon’s dexterity often separates the good surgeons from the great ones,” wrote…
October 25, 2024
EECS Undergraduate Newsletter | October 25, 2024
October 18, 2024
EECS Undergraduate Newsletter | October 18, 2024
October 18, 2024
The Pipeline: How Russian propaganda reaches and influences the U.S.
Hany Farid, a professor of digital forensics at the University of California, Berkeley, identified evidence of AI manipulation in a handful of recent Storm-1516 videos, including one from July of a man posing as a luxury car salesman to falsely claim to have sold Zelenska a…
October 17, 2024
Vivek Bharadwaj and Yicheng Zhu receive Teaching Effectiveness Award
EECS grads Vivek Bharadwaj and Yicheng Zhu have received Teaching Effectiveness Awards for 2024. The Graduate Division’s Teaching Effectiveness Award for GSIs honors those who devise solutions to teaching or learning problems they have identified in their classes and write them up in a one-page essay. These essays are published…
October 15, 2024
Public trust in U.S. elections is decreasing. But should it be?
Recent polls show public trust in the integrity of U.S. elections is decreasing, largely among Republicans. But this doesn’t signal that our elections are getting less reliable, UC Berkeley scholars said. In fact, elections in the U.S. are more secure and the results are…
October 11, 2024
EECS Undergraduate Newsletter | October 11, 2024
October 10, 2024
Alvin Cheung wins Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize
CS Associate Professor Alvin Cheung has been awarded the Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize. Cheung was cited for his groundbreaking work on “verified lifting,” applying ideas from program synthesis to dramatically improve the end-to-end performance of database-backed applications. The Dahl-Nygaard Prizes, founded in 2004 by the Association Internationale Pour les Technologies Objets (AITO),…
October 9, 2024
Faculty in computational biology and neuroscience win notable NIH award
EECS Assistant Professor Preeya Khana is one of two UC Berkeley computational biology and neuroscience scholars who received the New Innovator Award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency announced.