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…
March 15, 2017
A number of EECS alumni and faculty have been invited to guest lecture for a DeCal course called “Build the Future” (CS 198), designed in collaboration with startup institute The House, to get undergraduate students engaged with the Berkeley entrepreneurial ecosystem and to use their time on campus…
March 15, 2017
“Designing Technology to Counter Violent Extremism,” a course co-taught by CS Associate Prof. Björn Hartmann at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, is designed to develop technology-based solutions to ideologically motivated violence in the United States. In the class, students seek to understand the roots of violent extremism and…
March 15, 2017
Trifacta, a data wrangling startup co-founded by Prof. Joe Hellerstein (also company CSO and CS alumnus–M.S. ’92), is one of the companies profiled by Computer Weekly in an article titled “Silicon Valley startups aim to make big data capture and prep slicker.” Customers of Trifacta, which specializes in…
March 13, 2017
At the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Camp this year, Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan will lead AI4ALL, a Berkeley education program designed to introduce high potential, low income high schoolers to humanistic AI. In an article titled “The future of AI needs to have more people in it” she discusses…
March 9, 2017
CS alumnus Andrew Ng (Ph.D. ’02), Chief Scientist at Baidu, founder of Google Brain, co-founder of Coursera, and Stanford adjunct professor, describes in a video on Inside HPC how artificial intelligence is transforming the industrial landscape. He compares the impact of AI to that of electricity, which radically transformed…
March 9, 2017
Vani Mandava, the Director of Data Science at Microsoft Research, has written an article about the innovative course Foundations of Data Science taught by CS Assistant Teaching Prof. John DeNero and Ani Adhikari, a Teaching Professor in the Department of Statistics. Mandava examines the motives and experiences…
March 9, 2017
CS Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan and EECS alumna Yoky Matsuoka (B.S. ’93) are among Interesting Engineering‘s “17 Awesome Women Engineers” who are revolutionizing the engineering field in 2017. Anca is described as “one of the rising stars of the robotics scene” as the head of the InterACT Lab…
March 2, 2017
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy and EECS alumus student (now post doc in the HART Lab) Robert Matthew (M.S. EE ’15) are featured in a Berkeley Research article titled “Engineering to Restore Power to the People”. Supported by the Signature’s Innovation Fellows Program, Matthew and Prof. Bajcsy have developed…
February 28, 2017
CS postdoctoral scholar Philip Isola (Associate Prof. Alyosha Efros) is profiled in an an article in The Cornell Daily Sun titled “Computer Science Colloquium: Do Machines See What I See?” in which he discusses strategies that might allow systems to understand the visual world. “My ultimate goal is…