August 30, 2017
EE alumnus Sam Blackman (M.S.E. ’99) died over the weekend of a reported cardiac arrest at age 41. He was the chief executive and co-founder of AWS Elemental, and considered one of the highest-profile tech executives in Portland. He worked at Silicon Graphics and Intel, and spent six years designing…
August 30, 2017
Enrollment in CS 61A, The Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs, has increased from 1,568 students last fall to 1,762 students this semester. CS 61A is a popular introductory coding class–a requirement for EECS majors–co-taught by Assistant Teaching Professor Jon DeNero and Prof. Paul Hilfinger. The live lecture attendance is…
August 30, 2017
Undergraduate students Jian Lu (EECS junior), Walt Leung (CS sophomore), Jiayi Chen (CS junior), and Malhar Patel (EECS junior) placed 3rd at the Greylock Hackfest in July. Their platform, BeAR, allows multiple users to connect to the same #AR (augmented reality) session. The Hackfest, sponsored by Greylock Partners,…
August 25, 2017
CS alumnus Andrew Ng (Ph.D. ’02), one of the world’s leading authorities on AI, interviews EE Prof. Pieter Abbeel for Heroes of Deep Learning, an interview series from Ng’s cousera course, Deep learning AI. “Work in Artificial Intelligence in the EECS department at Berkeley involves foundational research in core…
August 25, 2017
EE Alumnus Charles Giancarlo (M.S. ’80) has been named Chief Executive Officer of Pure Storage, the market’s leading independent all-flash data platform vendor for the cloud era. Giancarlo previously served in senior executive roles at Silver Lake Partners and Cisco Systems, Inc. “Charlie is an exceptionally talented leader with a…
August 25, 2017
The Management, Engineering, & Technology (M.E.T.) program welcomed it’s inaugural class of 40 students this week–drawn from about 2,500 applicants. Undergrads who are admitted to M.E.T. combine courses at the Haas School of Business with one of three engineering tracks, including EECS. While they take classes in both subjects throughout…
August 23, 2017
EE alumnus Nima Jafarian (B.S. ’04) has been appointed Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at PowerSphyr, one of the world’s most innovative providers of wireless power technology. He is responsible for leading product management and marketing for SkyCurrent™, a ground-breaking wireless power system which combines near-field and…
August 23, 2017
CS alumnus Andrew Ng (Ph.D. ’02, adviser: Michael Jordan) has been singled out by NewsCenter.io as one of 7 leaders shaping the AI revolution. Ng founded the “Google Brain” project, which developed massive-scale deep learning algorithms. He led the AI group at Baidu, China’s largest search engine company,…
August 18, 2017
U.C. Berkeley made StudySoup’s list of the top 20 female-friendly computer science programs in the country. The graduate student group WICSE (Women in Computer Science and Engineering) is credited for the ranking because they are working to “build a more inclusive environment in the industry. In addition to outreach…
August 18, 2017
CS graduate student Rebecca Portnoff (adviser: David Wagner) has developed the first algorithm to identify adult ads tied to human trafficking rings by linking the ads to public information from Bitcoin — the primary payment method for online sex ads. “The technology we’ve built finds connections between ads,” says Portnoff.