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…
September 29, 2017
Chancellor’s Professor of Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience Jose Carmena, and Prof. Michel Maharbiz, are the subjects of a California Magazine article titled “Dust in the Machine,” about brain-machine interface (BMI) research. In 2013, Carmena, Maharbiz, then-graduate student Dongjin Seo (Ph.D. ’16), Prof. Jan Rabaey, and Prof. Elad Alon published a…
September 28, 2017
EECS alumnus Shahin Farshchi (B.S. ’02) is the subject of one of a series of Iranian Americans’ Contributions Project (IACP) interviews that explore the personal and professional backgrounds of prominent Iranian-Americans who have made seminal contributions to their fields. Farshchi is currently a Partner at Lux Capital Management where he has…
September 27, 2017
CS alumnus Garth Gibson (M.S. ’84/B.S. ’91) has been named CEO of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Toronto, Canada. The newly-formed Vector has received $50-million funding from Ontario and $85-million-plus from more than 30 companies, including Shopify Inc., Magna International Inc., Canada’s big banks and U.S. tech giants…
September 27, 2017
U.C. Berkeley is #3 in the Best Computer Science Schools rankings of the 50 Best Master’s in Computer Science Degrees for 2017. The rankings were based on a methodology which aggregates data from Payscale, U.S. News and World Report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as well as information from the…
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,”…