November 2, 2017
Two EECS alumni were instrumental in the creation and establishment of KALX radio on campus in the 1960s. Jim Welsh (B.S.’67), along with geology major Marshall Reed, started what was then known as Radio Kal in the basement of the Unit 2 dorm with a disposable collection of records, a…
November 1, 2017
EECS alumnus Amit Kumar (B.S. ’03) and the venture firm Accel are launching a mentorship program called Accel Scholars to support EECS undergraduates. Accel will work with a select group of students over the course of a year, hosting networking dinners and also guaranteeing the students an internship at a portfolio…
November 1, 2017
EECS undergraduate Rohan Phadte and Interdisciplinary Studies major Ash Bhat are the subjects of a Wired article titled “The College Kids Doing What Twitter Won’t,” about their creation of a Google Chrome browser extension that checks whether Twitter profiles are bots. It describes the genesis of their partnership, which…
October 30, 2017
EECS alumnus Eric Schmidt (M.S. ’79/Ph.D. ’82) will deliver the opening keynote address at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in March 2018. Schmidt worked at Bell Labs and Xerox PARC before becoming president of Sun in the 1980s. Over the next two decades, Schmidt becamed the…
October 30, 2017
Three papers with Berkeley authors received the Helmholtz Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2017 in Venice, Italy. This award honors papers that have stood the test of time (more than ten years after first publication) and is bestowed by the IEEE technical committee on Pattern Analysis…
October 30, 2017
The Caffe team researchers (’13 alumnus and current GSR Yangqing Jia, grad student Evan Shelhamer, ’17 alumnus Jeff Donahue, ’15 alumnus Sergey Karayev, grad student Jonathan Long, former postdocs Ross Girshick and Sergio Guadarrama, and Prof. in Residence Trevor Darrell) have been awarded the Mark Everingham Prize at the International…
October 26, 2017
Mattel has launched a line of biologically inspired foldable robot bugs designed in collaboration with Dash Robots, a spin-off of the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab (BML). The researchers at BML, under the direction of Prof. Ron Fearing, draw inspiration from nature to build more efficient robotics. The new toys, called …
October 26, 2017
The experiences of EECS freshman Rebecca Chery, a participant in the Pre-Engineering Program (PREP), are described in a Berkeley Engineering article titled “PREP by design.” PREP is a three-week program that gives incoming engineering majors a head start on academics, networking and professional development. Chery’s team used equipment at…
October 25, 2017
EE Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been appointed Non-Executive Chairman of UltraSoC, a pioneering semiconductor IP technology start-up based in Cambridge, UK. The appointment comes as the company drives accelerating adoption of its IP for debug during chip design, and of its embedded intelligent analytics capabilities for monitoring wider system performance…
October 24, 2017
U.C. Berkeley ranked #5 in Engineering and #8 in Computer Science on the 2018 U.S. News and World Report list of Best Global Universities. Rankings are based on reputation, citations, research, publications, and collaboration. Tsinghua University was top ranked on both lists. Berkeley ranked #2 and #3 for global research…