November 8, 2017
CS alumnus David Sontag (B.A. ’05), now an assistant professor of EECS at MIT, has been appointed to the Strategic Advisory Board of GNS Healthcare, one of the world’s leading precision medicine companies. Sontag is also the Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Career Development Professor in the Institute for Medical Engineering…
November 8, 2017
EECS junior Rohan Phadte and fellow student Ash Bhat launched their Chrome browser extension, Botcheck.me, on Halloween and it is already proving invaluable. The app determines whether news posts on Twitter likely came from real people or were generated by a bot. When an armed gunman attacked the congregants…
November 8, 2017
CS alumna Barbara Simons (Ph.D. ’81) is the subject of an article in The Atlantic titled “The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper,” which explores her conviction that there is only one safe voting technology: paper ballots. Simons, a pioneer at IBM Research, spent years trying to warn the public…
November 7, 2017
CS students enrolled in CS 194, an experimental “cyberwar” course led by Prof. Doug Tygar, have joined forces with the white hat hackers at HackerOne, a vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform. This is the first time that HackerOne–which connects hackers with tech companies, private businesses and federal agencies to…
November 7, 2017
The start-up Embodied Intelligence and its founders, Prof. Pieter Abbeel and grad students Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, and Tianhao Zhang, are the focus of two news articles: one from the New York Times titled “A.I. Researchers Leave Elon Musk Lab to Begin Robotics Start-Up,” and one from Berkeley News…
November 6, 2017
Six EECS faculty are profiled in a Berkeley Engineering article titled “Case studies in forward thinking.” Pieter Abbeel’s vision of the future is one of goal-oriented AI, where machines are learning responsibly. Claire Tomlin envisions a future of airspace management, where intelligent robots can quickly and safely react to…
November 6, 2017
Teaching Prof. Dan Garcia is quoted in a WBRC Fox 6 News article which discusses how a group of Alabama teachers are working to expand computer science education opportunities for students in rural Alabama and inner-city Birmingham. Garcia, who was part of the 2017 Alabama Teachers Computer Science Summit at…
November 6, 2017
Prof. Pieter Abbeel is featured in a New York Times article titled “Building A.I. That Can Build A.I.,” about how Google and others, in competition for a small pool of qualified researchers, are looking for automated ways to deal with a shortage of artificial intelligence experts. The key might be…
November 3, 2017
A UC Berkeley/UC Riverside research group that includes Prof. Jeffrey Bokor, Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin, postdoc Charles-Henri Lambert, postdoctoral fellow Jon Gorchon, and EE graduate student Akshay Pattabi have developed a new, ultrafast method for electrically controlling magnetism in certain metals, a breakthrough that could lead to greatly increased performance…
November 3, 2017
EE alumna Jinwen Xiao (Ph.D. ’03), now a senior director of engineering at Silicon Laboratories in Austin, Texas, is featured in a My Statesman article titled “Silicon Labs focuses on ‘mature, respectful’ workplace environment.” A computer chip design company, Silicon Labs ranks No. 1 among large employers in the…