Is spaghetti the key to building a better robot?
Studying how spaghetti reacts to water might offer clues to how robots built from flexible materials can better mimic human movement, according to Oliver O'Reilly, professor of mechanical engineering.
Is spaghetti the key to building a better robot?
1/22/2020, by Thomas Lee Look at some spaghetti and you might think lunch. When Oliver O’Reilly looks at spaghetti, he thinks about the future of robotics. Pasta and robots might not seem like natural bedfellows, but O’Reilly, a UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering, hopes his research can help engineers construct better models and designs for soft robots. In a paper recently published in... X
French ambassador says global institutions needed to confront technology challenges
1/16/2020, by Thomas Lee Philippe Étienne said the quickening pace of technological change requires nations to immediately build “shared governance” of the internet through both existing and perhaps new global institutions. XNew discovery makes it easier to design synthetic proteins that rival their natural counterparts
1/8/2020, by Berkeley Engineering Researchers have created a synthetic membrane that could transform fields including medicine, life sciences, alternative energy and environmental science. X
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Berkeley professor Doug Tygar, leading expert in cybersecurity and privacy, has died
1/17/2020 - Doug Tygar, professor of computer sciences and information management, died on Thursday, Jan. 16, at the age of 57. Over his 20-year tenure at UC Berkeley, he made key contributions in the areas of computer security, cryptography, privacy and digital rights management.
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UC Berkeley professor influences Facebook’s efforts to combat deepfakes
1/14/2020 - The social media giant hired Hany Farid to help it detect fake videos, but Farid says company's new policy is problematic.
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Tarek Zohdi named 2019 AAM Fellow
1/2/2020 American Academy of Mechanics - Tarek Zohdi, professor of mechanical engineering, has been named the 2019 Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, an honor accorded to only one person per year in the country.
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Grad students, Databricks founder tackle programming challenge
12/17/2019 Business Insider - RISELab spinoff Anyscale is building tools and infrastructure to run distributed applications, the next really hard problem for big data programmers.
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