April 13, 2017
Prof. Ming Wu has been awarded the 2017 C.E.K. Mees Medal from the Optical Society of America (OSA). This medal is presented to a recipient who exemplifies the thought that “optics transcends all boundaries.” This award recognizes an original use of optics across different fields. Prof. Wu is being…
April 12, 2017
EECS Chair and CS Prof. Jitendra Malik will discuss Deep Visual Understanding from Deep Learning as one of the keynote speakers at the Embedded Vision Summit on May 2, 2017. The summit is the only event focused exclusively on the technologies, hardware, and software that bring visual intelligence to…
April 12, 2017
Prof. Katherine Yelick has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This organization has been serving the nation as a champion of scholarship, civil dialogue and useful knowledge since 1780. The Academy convenes leaders from the academic, business, and government sectors to address critical challenges…
April 10, 2017
CS Prof. Emeritus David Patterson co-authored and presented a report on Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) at a regional seminar of the National Academy of Engineering, held at the Computer History Museum in Menlo Park on April 5, 2017. TPUs, which have been deployed in Google datacenters since 2015, are printed-circuit cards…
April 7, 2017
Josephine Williamson, the EECS Director of Administrative Services, has been selected to receive the U.C. Berkeley Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award (COSA), which is the highest honor bestowed upon staff by the Chancellor. COSAs are presented to individuals and teams who, in addition to performing their normal job duties with…
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…