March 5, 2018
A paper released on arXiv last week by a team of researchers including Prof. Dawn Song and Ph.D. student Nicholas Carlini (B.A. CS/Math ’13), reveals just how vulnerable deep learning is to information leakage. The researchers labelled the problem “unintended memorization” and explained it happens if miscreants can access to…
March 5, 2018
Alumnus Shankar Raman (EE M.S. ’88), now a professor of literature at MIT, has been named a 2018 MacVicar Fellow. The MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program recognizes professors who are champions of teaching and advising, and who engage with students to advance the mission of the Institute. After obtaining his…
March 5, 2018
Robotics researchers from Berkeley’s AUTOLab, led by IEOR and EECS professor Ken Goldberg, have built a heaving robotic platform — mimicking the motion of a breathing, heart-beating human patient — to help develop algorithms that robotic surgical assistants can use to guide their cutting. This research is the subject of…
March 5, 2018
Neuroscience researchers, including Prof. Jose Carmena, have demonstrated the astounding flexibility of the brain by training neurons that normally process input from the eyes to develop new skills, in this case, to control a computer-generated tone. Carmena, the senior author of a paper about the development that appeared in the…
March 2, 2018
The RISELab, led by Prof. Ion Stoica, has received an Expeditions in Computing award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), providing $10 million in funding over five years to enable game-changing advances in real-time decision making technologies. The award is presented to research teams pursuing large-scale, far-reaching and potentially transformative…
February 28, 2018
Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, who passed away in 2017, was an avid photographer who grew up in a multicultural environment, surrounded himself with a cosmopolitan crowd, and always kept his mind open to new ideas. In the 1960s and 70s, he enjoyed capturing the people around him in a series of…
February 21, 2018
CS graduate student Ling-Qi Yan (advisors: Ravi Ramamoorthi/Ren Ng) and researchers at U.C. San Diego are the subject of an article in TechXplore titled “Scientists improve computer rendering of animal fur.” He is part of a team that developed a method for dramatically improving the way computers simulate fur, and…
February 21, 2018
EECS alumnus Dan Wallach (B.S. ’93) will testify before the Texas Senate Select Committee on Election Security at a hearing about recent election irregularities in Texas, a review of voting security protocols and the responsibilities and duties of members of the Electoral College. Specifically, the hearing will examine the use…
February 21, 2018
CS alumnus Steve Wozniak (B.A.’86) was the inaugural speaker in the Business Thought Leader series at the University of South Florida College of Business. He answered pre-submitted questions that asked for his best advice for college students and what he might tell his younger self. He shared his “smiles minus…
February 20, 2018
For the second year running, UC Berkeley has won the Fiesta Bowl Overwatch Collegiate National Championship, sweeping UC Irvine 3-0. CS majors Kevin “SlurpeeThief” Royston and Gandira “Syeikh” Prahandika were on the Berkeley team, which battled in front of a sold-out crowd at the game in Tempe, Arizona, the first partnership…