May 23, 2017
EECS sophomore Rohan Phadte and Interdisciplinary Studies major Ash Bhat have built a Messenger bot called NewsBot to help users discern whether articles are “fake news” on Facebook. Besides determining the validity of an article, it also offers a barometer that shows where an article might fit on the…
May 22, 2017
CS Prof. Stuart Russell gave an engaging TED talk in April describing some of the problems in, and possible solutions for, creating a species that is smarter than humans. He argues that building provably altruistic, humble, and humanitarian machines might help us avoid some of the pitfalls inevitable in…
May 22, 2017
2017 EE Distinguished Alumnus Anantha Chandrakasan (B.S. ’89/M.S. 90/Ph.D. 94) and EECS alumna Gitanjali Swamy (Ph.D. ’97) are both participating in a TiE-Boston and IIT AGNE panel discussion on the “unique strengths of and challenges for female innovators and the ecosystem that supports them.” Anantha is the Vannevar Bush Professor…
May 22, 2017
Computer vision pioneer Prof. Avideh Zakhor is the subject of a Mercury News profile titled “Avideh Zakhor: the brains behind Google Earth and Street View,” which touches on her emigration from Iran, the creation of the 3-D city modeling technology for a Defense Department-funded start-up which she ultimately sold…
May 11, 2017
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…
May 10, 2017
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…
May 9, 2017
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…
May 9, 2017
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…
May 8, 2017
Professors Jan Rabaey and Pieter Abbeel were named in the top 5 of the 2017 top 50 pioneers by the “De Tijd” (translation buttons provided above the article), the Belgian equivalent of the Financial Times. Prof. Rabaey is currently the scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research…
May 3, 2017
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…