April 9, 2018
Prof. Stephen Derenzo is quoted in an article for Australia’s Particle about a new material for a proposed detector of weakly interactive massive particles (WIMPs). Derenzo is the lead author of a study published March 20 in the Journal of Applied Physics about a crystal called gallium…
April 3, 2018
At the ASPLOS conference in late March, John Kubitowicz and his group from 2000 were celebrated for their paper, “OceanStore: an architecture for global-scale persistent storage.” The paper was named Most Influential Paper 2018, and the authors receiving the award included David Bindel, Yan Chen, Steven Czerwinski, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels,…
March 29, 2018
The Foundations of Data Science (Data 8X), which is being offered free online this spring for the first time through the campus’s online education hub, edX, is the fastest-growing course in UC Berkeley’s history. Taught by Prof. David Wagner, Assistant Teaching Prof. John DeNero (recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Teaching…
March 21, 2018
The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) announced today that the winners of the 2017 ACM Turing Award are UC Berkeley’s David A. Patterson and Stanford University’s John L. Hennessy for “pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.
March 21, 2018
The Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering programs have been ranked #1 and #2 respectively by U.S.News & World Report, continuing our tradition as one of the best EECS graduate programs the world. In the 2019 rankings, Electrical/Electronic/Communications Engineering moved up from #3 to #1, tying with MIT and Stanford. …
March 15, 2018
EE postdoctoral fellow Amal El-Ghazaly, who works with the Nanoelectronics and Nanostructures Group, is featured in a Berkeley News article as one of the 25 scholars from Berkeley, Stanford, Caltech and UCLA who’ve won postdoctoral fellowships from the NSF-sponsored California Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP). The…
March 15, 2018
Assistant Teaching Prof. John DeNero has won the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. The award, presented by the Academic Senate, recognizes U.C. Berkeley’s brightest teaching stars for their inspiring and transformational teaching. DeNero says his teaching goal is not necessarily to make students happy but to help them learn how to…
March 12, 2018
College of Engineering Distinguished Alumna Barbara Simons (Ph.D. ’81) is the subject of an article in the Dail Kos titled “Computer scientist Barbara Simons proves how easy it is to hack elections—and how it can be stopped.” Simons, who runs Verified Voting, has been a longtime advocate for bringing paper ballots back…
March 7, 2018
Prof. Michael Jordan has been named a Plenary Lecturer at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August. ICM is considered the world’s premier forum for presenting and discussing new mathematical discoveries. Plenary speakers are invited from around the world…
March 7, 2018
Undergraduate students Ganeshkumar Ashokavardhanan (EECS + Business M.E.T.), Naomi Jung (CS BA), and Louie McConnell (EECS + Business M.E.T.) have been selected to participate in the 2018 KPCB Engineering Fellows Program, named one of the top 5 internship programs by Vault. Over the course of a summer, KPCB Engineering Fellows join…