October 10, 2017
Turing Award-winning computer scientist Shafi Goldwasser will become the new Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley, on January 1, 2018. The Simons Institute is the world’s leading venue for collaborative research in theoretical computer science. Established on July 1, 2012…
October 10, 2017
The Department of EECS is pleased to announce the appointment of Nir Shavit as Visiting Professor, effective July 1, 2018. Shavit is a leading researcher in the field of distributed and parallel computation. The central issue in this area is managing a shared memory across a number of processors while maintaining consistency…
October 6, 2017
A team of U.C. Berkeley researchers including Associate Prof. Chunlei Liu, Prof. Ana Arias, and Associate Prof. Michael Lustig, has been awarded a $13.43 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative. The team will use the money…
October 5, 2017
CS alumna Marie desJardins (Ph.D. ’92 adviser: Stuart Russell) has won the 2017 A. Richard Newton Educator ABIE Award. The award, named in honor of the late EE Prof. Richard Newton and presented annually at the Grace Hopper Celebration, recognizes educators who develop innovative teaching practices and approaches that attract girls…
October 4, 2017
EECS alumnus and security expert Alex Stamos (B.S. ’01) is profiled in an article in Recode about his role as Facebook’s Chief Security Officer. He is currently leading their internal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and co-authored a paper explaining how Russia carried out its…
October 2, 2017
Alumnus Mark Liu (EE M.S. ’80/Ph.D. ’83) has been named Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s biggest foundry chipmaker. He is succeeding Morris Chang, who is retiring. Chang, known as the “father of Taiwan’s chip industry,’ built TSMC (an Apple Inc. supplier) into a business worth $185…
October 2, 2017
CS majors Jimmy Liu and Zuhayeer Musa are featured in a Berkeley News article titled “In undergrad startup class, students learn to build the future.” Liu and Musa co-founded a startup called Bash while still in high school. When they came to Cal, they partnered with CS Prof. Scott…
October 2, 2017
CS Prof. Pieter Abbeel, graduate student Chelsea Finn, and Brett the robot are featured in a Wired article titled “The Education of Brett the Robot” which delves into some of the nuts and bolts of machine learning. Brett (short for Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks) is…
September 29, 2017
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended a farewell ceremony for Prof. Emeritus Lotfi Zadeh, held at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) in Baku. The ceremony was attended by many prominent Azerbaijani state and government officials, scientists, and public figures. Education Minister Mikayil Jabbarov said that his last wish was…
September 29, 2017
Senior CS major Saloni Shah and Teaching Prof. Dan Garcia are featured in a TechRepublic cover story titled “The state of women in computer science: An investigative report.” They discuss some of the challenges of attracting and retaining women students in computer science, and some of the efforts that…