March 15, 2017
“Designing Technology to Counter Violent Extremism,” a course co-taught by CS Associate Prof. Björn Hartmann at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, is designed to develop technology-based solutions to ideologically motivated violence in the United States. In the class, students seek to understand the roots of violent extremism and…
March 15, 2017
EE Prof. and co-director of the Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses Jose Carmena participated in a discussion with the Kavli Foundation about technologies that might be used to treat mental illness or enhance memory. Prof. Carmena, who has co-developed brain-machine interfaces and implantable microsensors, says “we have learned a…
March 15, 2017
Trifacta, a data wrangling startup co-founded by Prof. Joe Hellerstein (also company CSO and CS alumnus–M.S. ’92), is one of the companies profiled by Computer Weekly in an article titled “Silicon Valley startups aim to make big data capture and prep slicker.” Customers of Trifacta, which specializes in…
March 14, 2017
Thanks to a generous gift from the entertainment virtual reality company Immerex, a new lab is being outfitted for Berkeley’s accelerating work in AR/VR – augmented reality and virtual reality. The new lab, which will be located in Cory Hall, will be named the Immerex Virtual Reality Lab and…
March 13, 2017
At the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Camp this year, Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan will lead AI4ALL, a Berkeley education program designed to introduce high potential, low income high schoolers to humanistic AI. In an article titled “The future of AI needs to have more people in it” she discusses…
March 13, 2017
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been named recipient of the 2017 IEEE TCCPS (Technical Committee on CyberPhysical Systems) Technical Achievement Award. This award recognizes significant and sustained contributions to the cyber-physical system (CPS) community based on the impact of high-quality research made by the awardee throughout their lifetime. Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli ‘s research…
March 10, 2017
EECS Prof. Emeritus Kenneth K. Mei, innovator in computational electromagnetics, passed away on Feb 16, 2017 at the age of 84. Prof. Mei was born in China, served as an interpreter during the Korean War, earned his degrees at the University of Wisconsin, and joined the EECS department in 1962. …
March 9, 2017
CS alumnus Andrew Ng (Ph.D. ’02), Chief Scientist at Baidu, founder of Google Brain, co-founder of Coursera, and Stanford adjunct professor, describes in a video on Inside HPC how artificial intelligence is transforming the industrial landscape. He compares the impact of AI to that of electricity, which radically transformed…
March 9, 2017
Alumnus Gary Dean Hornbuckle (EE B.S. ’61/M.S. ’62/Ph.D. ’67), a pioneer in the computing industry who formed a number of his own companies, passed away on March 1, 2017. He spent 2 years on the research staff at M.I.T. before forming Applicon, Inc. in 1969, one of the first Computer…
March 9, 2017
Vani Mandava, the Director of Data Science at Microsoft Research, has written an article about the innovative course Foundations of Data Science taught by CS Assistant Teaching Prof. John DeNero and Ani Adhikari, a Teaching Professor in the Department of Statistics. Mandava examines the motives and experiences…