September 28, 2026
UC Berkeley faculty speak at NASA lecture series
NASA: Associate provost Victoria Coleman and professor Panos Papadopoulos discuss the longstanding relationship between NASA Ames and UC Berkeley
Media Mentions
August 6, 2026
The New Yorker: What Would It Mean to See a New Color?
The article explores the creation and perception of a newly experienced color named “olo” (described as the “greenest green” or an impossibly vivid, hyper-saturated teal) that was produced artificially by a multidisciplinary team led by CS Professor Ren Ng.
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.
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?