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October 3, 2024
UC Library shares oral history of EECS Professor Emeritus William “Bill” Oldham
The oral history of William “Bill” Oldham, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences, is now online in the UC Berkeley Library’s digital collections. Oldham joined the faculty in 1964, where he was an expert on process technology, as well as the co-founder and…
October 3, 2024
Watch a UC Berkeley digital forensics expert break down political deepfakes
Every day someone asks Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science and in the School of Information, to review images, audio and videos to determine if they are real or fake. As one of the world’s…
September 30, 2024
Bringing clarity to computational imaging
Berkeley researchers have developed a method to improve temporal resolution for Imaging microscopic samples. In a study published in Nature Methods, they demonstrated a new computational imaging tool, dubbed the neural space-time model (NSTM), that uses a small, lightweight neural network to reduce motion artifacts and solve for the…
September 26, 2024
AI hardware hub awarded $16.3M from DOD
Three projects in the California-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub (NW-AI-Hub) aimed at dramatically improving the energy efficiency of artificial intelligence hardware are getting a $16.3 million boost from the Department of Defense.
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September 24, 2024
Letta, one of UC Berkeley’s most anticipated AI startups, has just come out of stealth
“Founded by Berkeley PhD students Sarah Wooders and Charles Packer, this is a highly anticipated AI startup launch. That’s because it’s a child of Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab and is the commercial entity of the popular MemGPT open source project.”
August 30, 2024
AI Safety…Ok Doomer: with Anca Dragan
Building safe and capable models is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Can we make AI work for everyone? How do we prevent existential threats? Why is alignment so important? Join Professor Hannah Fry as she delves into these critical questions with EECS Associate Professor Anca Dragan, lead…
June 7, 2024
Opaque Launches New Platform For Running AI Workloads on Encrypted Data
“The Confidential AI platform was developed at the Berkeley RISELab, a world-renowned lab known for developing technologies such as Apache Spark and Databricks. It was at this lab where the breakthrough MC2 (Multiparty Collaboration and Competition) platform was created, incubated, and open-sourced. In 2021, this platform served as the foundation…
June 6, 2024
With AI writing so much code, should you still study computer science? This new data point provides an answer.
“Students express some concern that generative AI will affect the software engineering job market, especially for entry-level positions, but they are still excited about careers in computing,” said John DeNero in an email to Business Insider. “I tell them that I think many of the challenging aspects of software…