August 15, 2017
U.C. Berkeley has been ranked best in the world in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and second best in Computer Science and Engineering, in the Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU), an assessment of 500 top institutions around the globe by ShanghaiRanking. EE’s score was 333.5, beating out Stanford …
August 14, 2017
Assistant Prof. Sergey Levine, Prof. Pieter Abbeel, and graduate student Chelsea Finn are featured in a CSO article highlighting research they presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). The research was done in partnership with the NVIDIA AI Labs (NVAIL) programme. Levine’s team wants to help intelligent…
August 14, 2017
CS Prof. Ken Goldberg has joined the Strategic Advisory Board of ROBO Global, creator of the first benchmark index to track the global robotics, automation and artificial intelligence market. Goldberg leads research in geometric algorithms and machine learning for robotics and in applications from surgery to manufacturing. “Ken is truly one of…
August 9, 2017
Alumna Barbara Grosz (CS M.S. ’71/Ph.D. ’77), Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), has received the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The award recognizes the work of a researcher who has made sustained and impactful contributions…
July 27, 2017
EE alumnus Jonathan S. Maltz (Ph.D. EE ’99) is serving as the lead researcher and Chief Scientific Advisor during the clinical trials of HeartSentry, a non-invasive diagnostic tool to measure and monitor cardiovascular health. HeartSentry is being developed at Lexington Biosciences, a development-stage medical device company in Vancouver, Canada. …
July 27, 2017
CS alumnus Yannis Ioannidis (Ph.D. ’86) is featured in an article about Samsung’s purchase of Greek text-to-speech company Innoetics for close to 50 million euros. Ioannidis is president of the ATHENA Research & Innovation Center, which nurtured the startup and provided critical support during its evolution and the development…
July 27, 2017
CS Prof. Stuart Russell will be speaking on the use of AI, its long-term future and its relation to humanity, at the 2017 IP EXPO Europe showcase. IP EXPO Europe is an information technology trade show held annually in England which “brings together some of the biggest names, in their…
July 27, 2017
CS Prof. Alexei Efros (also alumnus, Ph.D. ’03) and his team have developed a new technique, leveraging deep neural networks and AI, to allow novices–even those with limited artistic ability–to quickly add realistic color to black and white images. “The goal of our previous project was to just get…
July 26, 2017
EE Profs Claire Tomlin, Costas Spanos and Connie Chang-Hasnain, and CS Prof. David Culler, are featured in a Berkeley Engineer article titled “Smart moves: California’s next-gen infrastructure,” which describes current UC Berkeley research projects that promise to transform the way we live. “What’s enabling these infrastructure changes is our…
July 26, 2017
Bioinspired robot, Salto-1P, is featured in an IEEE Spectrum article titled “Salto-1P Is the Most Amazing Jumping Robot We’ve Ever Seen.” Born in Prof. Ronald Fearing’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, Salto-1P is the most recent incarnation of the Saltatorial Locomotion on Terrain Obstacles (Salto) robot which was pronounced the…