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…
March 9, 2017
EECS alumna Sarah Bergbreiter (M.S. ’04/Ph.D. ’07) is the subject of a profile by the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland celebrating female engineering faculty during women’s history month. Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research,…
March 9, 2017
CS Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan and EECS alumna Yoky Matsuoka (B.S. ’93) are among Interesting Engineering‘s “17 Awesome Women Engineers” who are revolutionizing the engineering field in 2017. Anca is described as “one of the rising stars of the robotics scene” as the head of the InterACT Lab…
March 2, 2017
EE Profs. Ruzena Bajcsy and Stuart Russell appear in an article in the Berkeley Science Review titled “Automating Us,” in which they are quoted discussing the impacts of recent technological developments on both robots and humans.