September 27, 2017
CS Prof. Emeritus Lotfi Zadeh has posthumously won a 2017 Golden Goose Award for “Fuzzy Logic, Clear Impact,” sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The award honors teams of scientists whose silly-sounding taxpayer-funded research has returned serious benefits to society. “Zadeh proposed these revolutionary concepts…
September 25, 2017
CS Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan is one of the subjects of a San Francisco Chronicle article titled “Humanizing cars, sensitizing humans,” about how the rise of robot vehicles will require reprogramming our relationship with them. Dragan was interviewed for the section on “emotional intelligence” and what a robot car…
September 22, 2017
The American Institute of Architects (AIA)’s Committee on Architecture for Education (CAE) has awarded the Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation a 2017 Award of Merit. “Education continues to evolve, and the projects from this year’s Education Facility Design Awards program…represent the state-of-the-art learning environments being developed in today’s learning spaces,”…
September 20, 2017
Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology Program (M.E.T.) student Arvind Sridhar (CS/Business) has been awarded a $25,000 Davidson Fellows scholarship. The award is presented annually by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development to 20 students based on “significant work” in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, literature, music and philosophy. Sridhar’s scholarship was granted…
September 20, 2017
CS alumnus Nikunj Oza (M.S. ’98/Ph.D. ’01), now a research scientist in the Intelligent Systems Division of the NASA Ames Research Center, talks about NASA’s perspectives on Deep Learning for an HPC User Forum video. He presents a broad overview of work at NASA in data sciences, data mining, and…
September 20, 2017
CS Ph.D. student Pulkit Agrawal (advisers: Jitendra Malik and Jack Gallant) is the subject of a Quant Magazine article titled “Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious.” Agrawal is working at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab with CS grad student Deepak Pathak, Pathak’s adviser Prof. Trevor Darrell, and CS…
September 20, 2017
Research co-authored by EE Prof. Ali Javey has demonstrated that the power of photosynthesis can be harnessed to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at efficiencies far greater than plants. The achievement marks a significant milestone in the effort to move toward sustainable sources of fuel. The study, titled…
September 18, 2017
CS Prof. Katherine Yelick is the subject of an interview in HPCwire in which she discusses the promise and progress of exascale science. The article follows on the heels of Yelick’s keynote address on “Breakthrough Science at the Exascale” at the ACM Europe Conference in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this month. …
September 14, 2017
EE Prof. Jan Rabaey has won the 2017 Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Aristotle Award. The award recognizes SRC-supported faculty whose deep commitment to the educational experience of SRC students has had a profound and continuing impact on their professional performance and, consequently, a significant impact for members over a long period…
September 14, 2017
EE graduate student Ava Tan (advisor: Sayeef Salahuddin) has won Best in Session (Processing) for her paper “Characterization of the Interface States of Ferroelectric Hafnium Zirconium Oxide” at TECHCON 2017. Judging criteria is based on the novelty/quality of research work, relevance of the work to the semiconductor industry, and the…