July 16, 2026
Maintaining leadership in space with Victoria Coleman
EECS professor and Associate Provost of BA&SC Victoria Coleman joined Space News for an episode of their Space Minds podcast.
Media Mentions
June 26, 2026
How I Co-Founded Two $100B Chip Giants: A Semiconductor Legend’s Story
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli reflects on his 50-year legacy as a UC Berkeley professor, how his tools saved Intel’s historic 386 chip, and the high-stakes choice he had to make between two companies now worth roughly $100 billion each.
June 25, 2026
The Atlantic: Emma Pierson cautions about downsides of racing ahead on AI
We always hear that AI will cure cancer. But CS Assistant Professor Emma Pierson, in spite of her high cancer risk, argues that racing ahead on generalist AI models creates unclear benefits for cancer that are outweighed by broader societal harms.
May 15, 2026
Can a Computer Scientist Still Hope?
CS Professor Armando Fox is featured in this Q/A from the California Education Learning Lab’s Substack. The conversation is a reflective piece that examines the existential and ethical crisis facing the field of computer science in the age of Generative AI.
February 9, 2026
AI research deluge: why one conference is asking authors to rank their own papers
Emma Pierson, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, agrees that self-rankings are an “exciting possibility”. “You know which papers are your ‘baby’, which papers you really love,” she says. “I think the author’s own self-ranking would be one valuable source of input if you…
February 2, 2026
TechCrunch: A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains
“Think of it like ChatGPT, but for robots,” Sergey Levine tells me, gesturing toward the motorized ballet unfolding across the room.
January 20, 2026
11 things UC Berkeley AI experts are watching for in 2026
How will AI disrupt the labor market? What will deepfake videos mean for our understanding of truth? Are we in a bubble, and if so, will the bubble burst?
December 15, 2025
The Economist: The next version of the web will be built for machines, not humans
Dawn Song, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, says marketers may need to pitch not to people, but to “agent attention”.
December 12, 2025
WIRED: Coding Support with Sarah Chasins
UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Sarah Chasins joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about coding. How did programmers code the first ever code? What remnants of the early World Wide Web still exist online? Can someone still learn programming if they hate math? How do…