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July 18, 2025
Alvin Cheung receives ACSIC Rock Star Award
CS Professor Alvin Cheung has been awarded the Rock Star Award for Mid-Career Investigators by the Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing (ACSIC). This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to computing within 12 years of completing their most recent computing-related degree. The ACSIC Rock Star Award…
July 15, 2025
Translating Legacy Code for a Safer Future: DARPA Backs Effort to Convert C to Rust
A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received a $5 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR) program. The team’s goal is…
July 14, 2025
Jennifer Chayes recognized with 2025 Richard Tapia Award for efforts to diversify computing
Jennifer Chayes, EECS Professor and Dean of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) at UC Berkeley, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing.
July 10, 2025
Jan Rabaey receives 2026 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits
EECS Professor Emeritus Jan Rabaey has been selected to receive the 2026 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits. This prestigious award recognizes his outstanding contributions to the field of solid-state circuits, as measured by his impact on society, innovation, and leadership in the field. Rabaey was cited “for…
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June 24, 2025
Fast Company: This Perplexity cofounder wants to help AI breakthroughs graduate from university labs
Andy Konwinski (CS Ph.D. 2012), with help from Google’s Jeff Dean and other AI luminaries, has launched a new institute to help turn promising academic AI breakthroughs into open-source tools, startups, and real-world products while fostering an “AI for good” research culture.
June 12, 2025
May the Best Bot Win
Started as student side project, Chatbot Arena is now the AI industry’s scoreboard—and a $100 million startup
March 31, 2025
WIRED: Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers
David Patterson, professor emeritus of computer science, has reshaped modern computing with his groundbreaking work on RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture. Wired explores how his early research at UC Berkeley laid the foundation for RISC-V, an open-source alternative now driving innovation across the industry.