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Firefighter in helmet amid wildfire flames.

Fighting wildfires with computing and data science

07/13/21 — Berkeley's Fire Research Group uses algorithms, machine learning, and simulation to improve fire prevention efforts.
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Berkeley engineering students pull off novel chip design in a single semester

06/17/21 — In an advanced circuit design course, 19 students with no prior experience in chip design went from basic introductions to tape-out by the end of a four-month period, resulting in a novel chip that will be manufactured this summer.
Weiss/Manfredi rendering of aerial view of the Gateway. Note: design is provisional and in development.

Trio of $25 million gifts accelerates transformation of computing and data science

06/07/21 — Gifts will support construction of the Gateway, the planned hub for collaborative data science and computing education and research, and the creation of two new faculty positions
Databricks

Accidental billionaires

06/02/21 Forbes — How seven Berkeley artificial intelligence engineers who didn't want to make a cent are now worth billions
David Culler

EECS professor David Culler awarded Berkeley Citation

05/21/21 — The prestigious honor, one of the highest given by UC Berkeley, recognizes achievements that exceed the standards of excellence
Nicholas Tomlin, Dan Klein, and Eric Wallace

The language of probabilities

05/13/21 — Professor Dan Klein and his Berkeley Natural Language Processing Group helped a computer win the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
Jacobs Institute Project Support

Berkeley engineers win Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Awards

04/27/21 — Nine engineering teaching groups were honored for innovations in remote instruction
Gloria Tumushabe at a laptop computer

Cultivating female coders in Africa

04/26/21 — Graduate student Gloria Tumushabe has launched Afro Fem Coders, a remote coding program for women in Africa.
Ali Ghodsi

How Databricks bet big on the cloud

04/09/21 Forbes — A conversation with co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi, whose Berkeley-born data analytics company is now valued at $28 billion.
Schematic of three distinct lasers circling above flat optical antenna

Light unbound: Data limits could vanish with new optical antennas

02/25/21 — Berkeley engineers demonstrate new method of harnessing properties of lightwaves, enabling dramatic increase in the amount of data carried
Head shot of Alessandro Chiesa

Alessandro Chiesa among five UC Berkeley faculty named Sloan Research Fellows

02/16/21 — The two-year fellowships are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early career researchers
Shafi Goldwasser-portrait photo

Cryptography pioneer Shafi Goldwasser receives the Women in Science Award

02/11/21 Simons Institute — The L’Oréal-UNESCO honor for Goldwasser, director of the Simons Institute, comes on the International Day for Women & Girls in Science
Head shot of David Patterson

David Patterson receives prestigious Frontiers in Knowledge award

02/10/21 BBVA Foundation — The UC Berkeley Turing laureate shares the prize, which includes 400,000 euros, with Stanford's John Hennessy for turning computer architecture into a science and designing the processors that power today’s devices.
EECS graduate student Gloria Tumushabe using a laptop

Teaching young Ugandan women to code

02/03/21 — Gloria Tumushabe, a MasterCard Foundation Scholar in EECS, wanted to be more than an engineer; COVID gave her the chance
Computer scientist Jelani Nelson with his daughter at their home in Berkeley

The computer scientist who shrinks big data

12/08/20 Quanta Magazine — EECS professor Jelani Nelson designs clever algorithms to remember slivers of massive data sets; he also teaches kids in Ethiopia how to code
A microscope image of the structures used to initiate the magnetization switching

Researchers break magnetic memory speed record

10/29/20 — Advance could lead to new generation of ultrafast computer chips that retain data even when there is no power
Five new Faculty Fellows for 2020-21

Berkeley Engineering announces five new faculty fellows

09/28/20 — Five new faculty members are joining the College of Engineering as faculty fellows, with ample funding to equip labs, hire graduate students and get their research projects up and running.
2021 Siebel Scholars

Eight Berkeley engineers honored as 2021 Siebel Scholars

09/23/20 — Graduate students from bioengineering, computer science and energy science are among more than 90 selected worldwide.
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UC Berkeley and MIT awarded $12.5M to study critical issues in data science

09/01/20 — New Foundations of Data Science Institute, funded by NSF, to include 20 UC Berkeley faculty across multiple disciplines
Abstract globe with neural connections.

Berkeley leads $10M program to probe foundations of deep learning

08/25/20 CDSS — EECS professors to head five-year, multi-institution research project funded by NSF, Simons Foundation
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