April 26, 2018
Alumnus David Chaum (Ph.D. CS/Business Administration ’82) is the subject of a Bitcoin Magazine article titled “The Genesis Files: How David Chaum’s eCash Spawned a Cypherpunk Dream.” Before most people had heard of the internet, and most homes had personal computers, Chaum was concerned with the future of online privacy. …
April 26, 2018
Researchers, including Prof. Vladimir Stojanović, have developed a method to fabricate silicon chips that can communicate with light and are no more expensive than current chip technology. Stojanovic initially led the project into a new microchip technology capable of optically transferring data which could solve a severe bottleneck in current devices…
April 25, 2018
Prof. David Patterson is interviewed in the podcast Recode Decode for an episode titled “Meet John Hennessy and Dave Patterson, Silicon Valley’s first disruptors.” He and Hennessy won the 2018 Turing Award–the computer science equivalent of the Nobel Prize–in recognition of their development of RISC, a more efficient computer processor…
April 23, 2018
CS Prof. Hany Farid is leaving Dartmouth, where he taught for 20 years, to take up a faculty position in the EECS department. Farid specializes in digital forensics and image analysis. Some of his most well-known projects have applied computer science to test whether images have been doctored, using his…
April 23, 2018
CS Prof. Eric Paulos and his graduate students in the Hybrid Ecologies Lab, Sarah Sterman, Molly Nicholas, and Christine Dierk, have created a prototype of a wearable color- and shape-changing braid called HäirIÖ. The hair extension is built from a custom circuit, an Arduino Nano, an Adafruit Bluetooth board, shape memory alloy,…
April 19, 2018
A new Data Science major in the College of Letters and Science has been approved, effective Fall 2018. This is part of Berkeley’s active engagement with the burgeoning field of data science, which has the potential to shape numerous fields of study and practice. The major is designed to equip students…
April 19, 2018
2018 EE Distinguished Alumna Andrea Goldsmith (B.A. ’86/M.S. ’91/Ph.D. ’94) has been named the 2018-19 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Athena Lecturer for contributions to the theory and practice of adaptive wireless communications, and for the successful transfer of research to commercial technology. Goldsmith, who is currently the Stephen Harris…
April 19, 2018
In an Op-Ed piece for Medium, CS and Statistics Prof. Michael Jordan examines the limits of AI and argues for the creation of an engineering discipline encompassing data science, intelligent infrastructure (II), and intelligence augmentation (IA). Principles of analysis and design must be applied when building planetary-scale inference-and-decision-making systems…
April 18, 2018
EECS Chair Prof. James Demmel (Ph.D. ’83) and CS Prof. Emeritus Eric Brewer (B.S. ’89) have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The academy is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States and serves the nation as a champion of scholarship, civil dialogue…
April 17, 2018
EECS graduate student Michael Laskey (advisor: Ken Goldberg) is interviewed by Audrow Nash for a Robohub podcast titled “DART: Noise injection for robust imitation learning.” Laskey works in the AUTOLAB where he develops new algorithms for Deep Learning of robust robot control policies and examines how to reliably apply recent…