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…
October 24, 2017
Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) and Nexar announced the release of 36,000 high frame-rate videos of driving, in addition to 5,000 pixel-level semantics-segmented labeled images, and invited public and private institution researchers to join the effort to develop accurate automotive perception and motion prediction…
October 18, 2017
Teaching Prof. Dan Garcia is featured in an EdSurge article titled “Engineers, Recruiters and Professors Weigh In: Future Programmers Need Writing Skills, Too,” in which he discusses how career goals should shape a student’s skill set. Although not all successful coders need to be proficient writers, flexibility is important. …
October 18, 2017
EECS alumnus Bryan Catanzaro (Ph.D. ’11) is interviewd by Byron Reese for episode 13 of his series Voices in AI. Catanzaro, who is the head of Applied AI Research at NVIDIA, discusses sentience, transfer learning, speech recognition, autonomous vehicles, and economic growth. “I like to think about artificial intelligence…
October 18, 2017
EE alumnus Amnon Yariv (B.S ’54/M.S. ’56/Ph.D. ’58) has been named a 2017 Honorary Member of the Optical Society (OSA). Honorary Membership is the most distinguished of all OSA Member categories and is awarded to individuals who have made unique, seminal contributions to the field of optics. Yariv was elected…
October 18, 2017
EE Associate Prof. Chunlei Liu has co-authored a study which has identified a specific molecular pathway that links maternal fever early in pregnancy to some congenital heart and cranial facial birth defects. The findings, which were published in the journal Science Signaling, suggest a portion of congenital birth defects…
October 17, 2017
Computer Science faculty in the Real-Time Intelligent Secure Execution Lab (RISELab) have outlined challenges in systems, security and architecture that may impede the progress of Artificial Intelligence, and propose new research directions to address them. The paper, A Berkeley View of Systems Challenges for AI, was authored by…