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 31, 2016
As a way to provide more facetime between busy faculty and students in EECS, a new café called Tea 1 has opened in Cory Hall. After town hall discussions with EECS students, faculty and staff it was determined that a café would provide a more relaxed atmosphere for students to…
August 26, 2016
Looking at the entrepreneurial aspirations of UC Berkeley’s students in what is often called around campus the “innovation ecosystem”, EECS alumni Cameron Baradar (B.S. ’15) has opened the doors to The House, a startup institute across the street from campus on Bancroft Ave. Currently on campus there are…
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 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 8, 2016
EECS Alumnus Jacques I. Pankove (BS EE 1944/MS EE 1948), who received the Distinguished Engineering Alumnus award in 2000 for building the first gallium nitride light-emitting diode (LED), died on July 12, 2016 at the age of 94. A refugee of Czarist Russia, Pankove grew up in Marseilles before emigrating…
August 8, 2016
A new undergraduate program that integrates the study of engineering and business, the Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology Program (M.E.T.), will be taught at Berkeley’s top-ranked Haas School of Business and the College of Engineering. The Business + EECS track combines study in these two areas so that students can…
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…
August 2, 2016
The Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation was spotlighted in an article in the California Council on Science & Technology (CCST) website titled “UC Berkeley and UC San Diego Explore Engineering Education of the Future through Making”. The Jacobs Institute is UC Berkeley’s interdisciplinary hub for students, teachers and…
August 2, 2016
The Women in Technology (WIT) Leadership Round Table, started by Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu, EECS grad student Virginia Smith, EECS alumna Gitanjali Swamy and Sheila Humphreys is featured in Medium, an online community of writers, in an article titled “Women in Technology: How a Handful of…