November 15, 2017
EE alumnus Andreas Cangellaris (Ph.D. ’85) will be the next provost of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the first person to hold the job on a permanent basis in more than two years. Cangellaris joined the UI engineering faculty in 1997 and has been Dean of the College of Engineering…
November 14, 2017
CS alumna Diane Greene (M.S. ’88) sat down with Ginni Rometty and Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce conference last week to talk about women leaders in tech. Greene, who is currently the CEO of Google Cloud, started out designing offshore oil structures and systems before becoming a software engineer. She…
November 14, 2017
Prof. Stuart Russell teamed up with Autonomousweapons.org to create a provocative video called Slaughterbots, which shows what can go wrong when autonomous weapons are designed to target humans. “This short film is more than just speculation” Russell says. “It shows the results of integrating and miniaturizing…
November 14, 2017
The School of Information (I School) is now accepting applications for its new, online Master of Information and Cybersecurity (MICS) program, also known as cybersecurity@berkeley. MICS is an accredited program designed to train students with professional experience for a career in cybersecurity. Delivered online, MICS provides the technical skills and…
November 13, 2017
CS alumnus Wu-Fu Chen (Ph.D. ’77) has been elected to the Board of Directors of Crown Bioscience Inc., a global drug discovery and development company. Chen is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Acorn Campus Ventures and Partner Emeritus at Mobility Ventures LLC. He started more than a dozen companies,…
November 13, 2017
UC Berkeley is ranked #3 overall in the U.S. and global computer science rankings (CSRankings) for 2017. CSRankings is designed as a more meaningful and transparent alternative to the US News and World Report computer science ranking system–which is entirely reputation-based and relies on surveys sent to department heads and directors of…
November 9, 2017
The Investiture of EECS alumnus Gary May (M.S. ’88 and Ph.D. ’92) as the seventh chancellor of UC Davis took place on Oct. 27 in the Mondavi Center, the first event in UC Davis’ annual Homecoming weekend. May was presented with the Chancellor’s Medal by UC President Janet Napolitano, officially…
November 9, 2017
Start-up Embodied Intelligence, founded by Prof. Pieter Abbeel and his grad students Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, and Tianhao Zhang, raised $7M in a seed round yesterday led by venture capital firm Amplify Partners. VC firms Lux Capital, SV Angels, FreeS, 11.2 Capital, and A. Capital also supplied capital. Embodied Intelligence…
November 8, 2017
CS alumnus David Sontag (B.A. ’05), now an assistant professor of EECS at MIT, has been appointed to the Strategic Advisory Board of GNS Healthcare, one of the world’s leading precision medicine companies. Sontag is also the Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Career Development Professor in the Institute for Medical Engineering…
November 8, 2017
EECS junior Rohan Phadte and fellow student Ash Bhat launched their Chrome browser extension, Botcheck.me, on Halloween and it is already proving invaluable. The app determines whether news posts on Twitter likely came from real people or were generated by a bot. When an armed gunman attacked the congregants…