November 6, 2017
Six EECS faculty are profiled in a Berkeley Engineering article titled “Case studies in forward thinking.” Pieter Abbeel’s vision of the future is one of goal-oriented AI, where machines are learning responsibly. Claire Tomlin envisions a future of airspace management, where intelligent robots can quickly and safely react to…
November 6, 2017
Teaching Prof. Dan Garcia is quoted in a WBRC Fox 6 News article which discusses how a group of Alabama teachers are working to expand computer science education opportunities for students in rural Alabama and inner-city Birmingham. Garcia, who was part of the 2017 Alabama Teachers Computer Science Summit at…
November 6, 2017
Prof. Pieter Abbeel is featured in a New York Times article titled “Building A.I. That Can Build A.I.,” about how Google and others, in competition for a small pool of qualified researchers, are looking for automated ways to deal with a shortage of artificial intelligence experts. The key might be…
November 3, 2017
A UC Berkeley/UC Riverside research group that includes Prof. Jeffrey Bokor, Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin, postdoc Charles-Henri Lambert, postdoctoral fellow Jon Gorchon, and EE graduate student Akshay Pattabi have developed a new, ultrafast method for electrically controlling magnetism in certain metals, a breakthrough that could lead to greatly increased performance…
November 3, 2017
EE alumna Jinwen Xiao (Ph.D. ’03), now a senior director of engineering at Silicon Laboratories in Austin, Texas, is featured in a My Statesman article titled “Silicon Labs focuses on ‘mature, respectful’ workplace environment.” A computer chip design company, Silicon Labs ranks No. 1 among large employers in the…
November 2, 2017
A paper co-authored by postdoc Pramod Subramanyan, grad student Rohit Sinha, alumnus Ilia Lebedev (B.S. ’10), alumnus and MIT Prof. Srinivas Devadas (M.S. ’86/Ph.D. ’88), and EECS Prof. Sanjit A. Seshia has won Best Paper Award at the 2017 ACM Conference…
November 2, 2017
Two EECS alumni were instrumental in the creation and establishment of KALX radio on campus in the 1960s. Jim Welsh (B.S.’67), along with geology major Marshall Reed, started what was then known as Radio Kal in the basement of the Unit 2 dorm with a disposable collection of records, a…
November 1, 2017
EECS alumnus Amit Kumar (B.S. ’03) and the venture firm Accel are launching a mentorship program called Accel Scholars to support EECS undergraduates. Accel will work with a select group of students over the course of a year, hosting networking dinners and also guaranteeing the students an internship at a portfolio…
November 1, 2017
EECS undergraduate Rohan Phadte and Interdisciplinary Studies major Ash Bhat are the subjects of a Wired article titled “The College Kids Doing What Twitter Won’t,” about their creation of a Google Chrome browser extension that checks whether Twitter profiles are bots. It describes the genesis of their partnership, which…
October 30, 2017
EECS alumnus Eric Schmidt (M.S. ’79/Ph.D. ’82) will deliver the opening keynote address at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference in March 2018. Schmidt worked at Bell Labs and Xerox PARC before becoming president of Sun in the 1980s. Over the next two decades, Schmidt becamed the…