September 7, 2017
CS Assistant Prof. Sergey Levine explores how deep learning will unleash robotics in an NVIDIA AI Podcast which first aired on Sept 1st. “One of the most important things is that you have to somehow communicate to the robot what it means to succeed,” Levine said in a conversation with…
September 6, 2017
CS Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, known as the Father of Fuzzy Logic, passed away on the morning of September 6, 2017. He was 96. Zadeh touched many lives and had a tremendous impact on many scientific and technological fields. He is best known as the founder of fuzzy mathematics, fuzzy set…
September 5, 2017
EE Prof. Edward A. Lee has published his first book for a general audience, Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology (MIT Press, 2017). In it, Lee observes that engineering is a deeply intellectual and fundamentally inventive process and that the producers of digital technology…
August 31, 2017
Graduate student Yang You (advisor: James Demmel) has won a 2017 ACM IEEE Computer Society George Michael Memorial Fellowship for his work on designing accurate, fast, and scalable machine learning algorithms on distributed systems. The award, which was named in honor of George Michael, one of the founding fathers…
August 30, 2017
Anupama Kaul (EE Ph.D. 2000) has been named director of the University of North Texas College of Engineering’s PACCAR (Pacific Car and Foundry Company) Technology Institute. Kaul was a task manager at Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology before joining the University of Texas at El Paso…
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…