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karp

May 11, 2017

Paper co-authored by Richard Karp receives 2017 RECOMB Test of Time Award

Prof. Richard Karp and coauthors Jacob Scott, Trey Ideker and Roded Sharan have received the 2017 RECOMB (International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology) Test of Time Award for their paper “Efficient Algorithms for Detecting Signaling Pathways in Protein Interaction Networks”. Prof. Karp also won awards at…

c6-patterson

May 10, 2017

David Patterson is leading one of Google’s most crucial projects

Prof. Emeritus David Patterson is profiled in a CNBC article which describes how he postponed retirement to conduct research at Google into the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), an ambitious new chip that’s designed to run at least 10 times faster than today’s processors and is sophisticated enough to handle…

muller

May 9, 2017

Rikky Muller awarded the 2017 Keysight Early Career Professor Award

Assistant Prof. Rikky Muller has been awarded the 2017 Keysight Early Career Professor Award. The Keysight Early Career Professor Award is established to recognize and encourage excellent research enabling design, test or measurement of electronic systems. The program seeks to establish strong collaborative relationships between Keysight researchers and leading professors…

sam-kumar

May 9, 2017

Sam Kumar is 2017 University Medal runner up

EECS major Sam Kumar is a runner up for the 2017 University Medal.  Candidates for the University Medal must have overcome significant challenges, made a difference in the lives of others and carry a GPA of 3.96 or higher.  Sam is involved in research related to software-defined buildings, has spent…

malik

May 3, 2017

Jitendra Malik recipient of the ACM and AAAI Allen Newell Award

Prof. Jitendra Malik has been named recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Allen Newell Award. The Allen Newell award is presented to an individual for career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer…

sanjaymehrotra

May 2, 2017

Sanjay Mehrotra is Micron’s new President and CEO

Alumnus Sanjay Mehrotra (EECS B.S. ’78/M.S. ’80) has been named Micron’s new President and CEO.  Mehrotra co-founded SanDisk in 1988 and led the company through several strategic acquisitions (including SMART Storage Systems, Fusion-io, Schooner, and FlashSoft, that helped transform the company from a component supplier into a systems provider) until…

aminer

April 27, 2017

Berkeley CS faculty among the most influential in their fields

U.C. Berkeley has the top ten most AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award winners across all fields of computer science in 2016 and the top five most award winners in the fields of Computer Vision, Database, Machine Learning, Multimedia, Security, Computer Networking, and System.  The 28 CS faculty members included…

huskey

April 21, 2017

Harry Huskey is dead at age 101

Computer pioneer Harry Huskey, who designed the G15–which might be called the first “personal computer”–at Berkeley in 1954, has died.  He taught and conducted research into computer language in the EE department from 1954 to 1967, when he left to found and direct the computer center at U.C. Santa Cruz. …

efros

April 19, 2017

Alyosha Efros has won the 2016 ACM Prize in Computing

Professor Alexei (Alyosha) Efros has won the 2016 Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Prize in Computing, formerly known as the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award. This award recognizes early-to-mid-career contributions that have fundamental impact and broad implications. Prof. Efros was cited for groundbreaking data-driven approaches to computer graphics and computer vision…