April 6, 2017
The Beauty and Joy of Computing, an introductory computer science curriculum taught by Prof. Dan Garcia has received a $311,975 grant from InfoSys for a Professional Development week “BJCpalooza” for teachers to be held July 17-21, 2017 at UC Berkeley. Approximately 200 high school teachers from across the…
April 5, 2017
Alumnus Denis Shing Fai Yip (B.S. ’90/M.S. ’91) has been named Chief Executive Officer of Digital China Holdings Limited. He will focus on integrating big data and cloud computing technologies into the company’s global industrial system. Mr. Yip has been involved with information management, software, and global sales and services…
April 5, 2017
CS Prof. Michael Jordan, graduate students Philipp Moritz and Robert Nishihara, and research in the RISELab are featured in a Datanami article titled “Meet Ray, the Real-Time Machine-Learning Replacement for Spark.” Ray is one of the first technologies to emerge from RISELab, the successor to AMPLab and its host…
April 5, 2017
BiasBusters @ Cal EECS will make a presentation at this year’s Community Grants Showcase: Changing Social Norms on April 19, 2017. BiasBusters @ Cal EECS focuses on engaging EECS faculty, staff, and students to shift culture and increase the inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in our community. The…
April 5, 2017
Dr. Daniel Garcia and his course “CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing” (BJC) are featured in a New York Times article about curricula designed to develop computational thinking in students. The article, titled “Learning to Think Like a Computer,” covers strategies at a number of top institutions and…
April 4, 2017
The paper “X-Trace: A Pervasive Network Tracing Framework”, authored by EECS alumi Rodrigo Fonseca (Ph.D. ’08) and George Porter (Ph.D. ’08) and Professors Randy Katz, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, has received the 2017 Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) Test-of-Time Award. X-Trace was…
April 4, 2017
Charles Bordenave, an EECS/Statistics postdoc (Sept. 06-07) has been awarded thePrix Marc Yor by the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) of France. Charles Bordenave was an EECS/Statistics postdoc co-supervised by Prof. Venkatachalam Anantharam (EECS) and Prof. David Aldous (Statistics) and is currently with the French National…
April 4, 2017
Graduate students Radhika Mittal (advisors: …
March 29, 2017
Alumna Valerie Taylor (EE M.S. ’86/Ph.D. ’91) has been appointed the next director of the Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. Taylor has received numerous awards for distinguished research and leadership and authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in…
March 24, 2017
EE Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu, who participated in a semiconductor “Moore’s Law” panel discussion at the South by Southwest festival in Texas, is featured in an Electronic Design article titled “Forget Scaling. Moore’s Law Panel Talks Power Consumption.” Tsu-Jae, who helped pioneer the Finfet transistor in 1998, describes some…