January 3, 2017
Alumnus Kylan Nieh (CS BA/Business BS 2014) has made the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology list. While still a student, Kylan started his own public speaking and leadership course at the Haas School of Business and became the youngest recipient of the Business Teacher of the Year…
December 21, 2016
Alumnus Stephen W. Director (EE M.S. ’67/Ph.D. ’68) has been elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors this year. The title recognizes “academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of…
December 21, 2016
Imperva has named alumnus Roger Sippl (CS BS ’77 ) to its board of directors. Sippl is a Silicon Valley software pioneer, entrepreneur and innovator. He founded Informix Software (now part of IBM) in 1980, when he was just 24, to develop and commercialize SQL relational database software. He subsequently…
December 21, 2016
Alumnus Peter Norvig (CS Ph.D. ’86), now Director of Research at Google, is profiled in a Forbes magazine article titled “Artificial Intelligence Pioneers: Peter Norvig, Google.” The article describes Norvig’s history and accomplishments, and outlines his thoughts on human-machine partnerships and the disparate goals of neuroscience and AI research.
December 20, 2016
Quartz explores an algorithm devised by CS Prof. Trevor Darrell, L&S CS undergraduate student Dong Huk Park, CS grad student Lisa Anne Hendricks, and postdoc Marcus Rohrbach, along with researchers in the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, in an article titled “We don’t understand how AI make most…
December 20, 2016
Prof. Clark Nguyen has been selected to receive the 2017 Robert Bosch Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems Award. This award was established by the IEEE Electron Devices Society in 2014 to recognize and honor advances in the invention, design, and/or fabrication of micro or nano- electromechanical systems and/or devices. The…
December 19, 2016
Alumnus Nicholas Weaver (CS B.A. ’95/ Ph.D. ’03), who now works at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) as a security expert, was interviewed by Leandra Bernstein of ABC 33/40 for an in-depth article titled Questions remain over Russian responsibility for passing stolen DNC emails to WikiLeaks. “All the…
December 14, 2016
EE Prof. Bernhard Boser is profiled in an article in the Cal Aggie titled “Fingerprint recognition on smartphones unsafe and hackable” in which he discusses a new ultrasonic imaging process developed at UC Berkeley and UC Davis to more securely protect personal information than current finger recognition technologies. This…
December 14, 2016
Jacobs Hall, home of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation has received a Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. LEED scores buildings on how well they meet various measures of sustainability and Platinum is the highest level of certification…
December 13, 2016
CS graduate student Jun-Yan Zhu (adviser: Alexei Efros) is the subject of an article in California Magazine titled “Paint by Numbers: Algorithms for the Artistically Challenged.” Zhu and his team apply the tools of machine learning to computer graphics. For example, in the team’s most recent project, they developed…