August 30, 2024
Building safe and capable models is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Can we make AI work for everyone? How do we prevent existential threats? Why is alignment so important? Join Professor Hannah Fry as she delves into these critical questions with EECS Associate Professor Anca Dragan, lead…
June 7, 2024
“The Confidential AI platform was developed at the Berkeley RISELab, a world-renowned lab known for developing technologies such as Apache Spark and Databricks. It was at this lab where the breakthrough MC2 (Multiparty Collaboration and Competition) platform was created, incubated, and open-sourced. In 2021, this platform served as the foundation…
June 6, 2024
“Students express some concern that generative AI will affect the software engineering job market, especially for entry-level positions, but they are still excited about careers in computing,” said John DeNero in an email to Business Insider. “I tell them that I think many of the challenging aspects of software…
May 3, 2024
POLITICO interviewed EECS Professor Ben Recht as part of their Future in Five Questions series.
March 22, 2024
CS Professor Ben Recht was quoted in POLITICO in response to an AI app that creates customized music.
March 11, 2024
The New York Times profiles Covariant, an Emeryville-based AI and robotics company founded by CS Professor Pieter Abbeel and his former students, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, and Tianhao Zhang.
February 9, 2024
Quanta Magazine profiled Lenore Blum, a professor-in-residence at Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. “I had never wanted to think of myself as a woman mathematician, but I started realizing I had a role to play.”
February 5, 2024
Ion Stoica, Berkeley CS Professor, and co-founder and executive chairman of Databricks, was interviewed and quoted on the growth of generative AI startups, and their growth beyond the capabilities of current hardware.
February 5, 2024
EECS Professor Hany Farid is currently working on “monitoring AI usage in campaigning” for the 2024 Presidential elections.