Umesh Vazirani awarded $2.4M grant from DOE
10/30/23 — Research will explore ways to advance production-ready quantum computing
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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing receives $25M matching pledge
10/19/23 — Simons Institute: Gift from SFI will help support ongoing innovation and research into theoretical computing
$15.3M awarded to CA-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub
10/13/23 — UC Berkeley to co-lead Microelectronics Commons regional innovation hub funded by the U.S. Department of Defense
Eight students honored as Siebel Scholars
10/11/23 — Siebel Scholars Foundation announces class of 2024 that will receive $35,000 grants to fund last year of study
Should we take election forecasts seriously? A computer scientist says yes
08/17/23 — CDSS: Heading into the 2024 presidential election cycle, election forecaster and Berkeley Engineering alum Lakshya Jain shares how computing has changed political prediction efforts
Researchers create open-source platform for Neural Radiance Field development
07/25/23 — Plug-and-play framework makes it easier to collaborate and develop interactive 3D scenes
Speak and spell
05/17/23 — A new brain-computer interface allows users to silently spell out words in real time with near-perfect accuracy.
In training
05/17/23 — Computer scientists have created an innovative approach to machine learning that preserves privacy.
Life isn’t fair … yet
05/17/23 — Berkeley engineers have demonstrated the first proven approach to creating fairer algorithms.
Berkeley professor Michael Jordan wins inaugural World Laureates Association Prize
09/29/22 — The WLA Prize in Computer Science or Mathematics includes a $1.4 million (RMB 10 million) award
Seven honored as Siebel Scholars
09/22/22 — Seven Berkeley engineering students have been named to the Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2023
EPIC Data Lab harnesses computer science to help society
09/13/22 — CDSS: New lab is building data tools that allow justice system workers, journalists and other non-programmers to benefit from the latest computer science advances
Researchers win $5M to launch center that advances decentralization technology
08/04/22 — CDSS: Algorand Foundation funding to help democratize access to data and ensure that data remains secure
Just for you
08/02/22 — Research reveals manipulative tendencies of content recommender systems and possible ways to prevent them
Plenoxels convert 2D images into navigable, photorealistic 3D worlds in minutes
06/16/22 — Innovative technology makes 3D-rendering process fast and practical for a range of applications
Berkeley launches Sky Computing Lab to revolutionize the cloud industry
05/25/22 — CDSS: Research lab aims to build a new backbone for interconnected cloud computing.
1st-gen grad student: How I found computer sciences
05/23/22 — CDSS: Kevin Miao came to Berkeley from the Netherlands to study biology, but an introductory data science course helped him find a different path, more confidence and new leadership skills
UC Berkeley’s Rediet Abebe named 2022 Carnegie Fellow
04/26/22 — Honor includes $200,000 stipend to support the assistant professor's examination of evidentiary statistical software used in the criminal legal system
Berkeley robot learning pioneer Pieter Abbeel wins ACM Prize in Computing
04/06/22 — Award, which comes with $250,000, recognizes computing research and contributions that have fundamental impact and broad implications
‘Off label’ use of imaging databases could lead to bias in AI algorithms, study finds
03/21/22 — Biased algorithms applied to clinical data may produce images in which pathological details are blurred or missed, researchers reveal.