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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.
Ball with binary numbers floating above hand

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
Simons lecture at Calvin Lab auditorium

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing gets renewed support with $35.5M grant

08/13/20 — The award brings the Simons Foundation's support of the institute, launched in 2012, to nearly $100 million.
Chenming Hu, Tsu-Jae King Liu, Jeffrey Bokor and Sayeef Salahuddin

A better way to measure progress in semiconductors

07/22/20 — Four EECS professors are featured in an IEEE Spectrum article about efforts to replace Moore's Law with a better metric to measure progress in semiconductors
Artist’s rendition of quantum entanglement

UC Berkeley to lead $25 million quantum computing center

07/21/20 — National Science Foundation grant aims to establish a multi-university institute focused on speeding the development of quantum computers
Margo Seltzer, Keith Bostic and Mike Olson

BerkeleyDB wins 2020 SIGMOD Systems Award

06/15/20 — The creators of BerkeleyDB have won the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery SIGMOD Systems Award for their "seminal work" on the revolutionary software library.
Kristin Persson

Researcher creates machine learning tool to help scientists locate materials needed for innovations

05/08/20 — Kristin Persson leads the Materials Project, an open-access online database to assist scientists searching for the next big thing in batteries, solar cells, and computer chips
Royal Society building in London

Materials sciences professor Ramamoorthy Ramesh named to Royal Society

04/29/20 — Ramesh has created nanosized materials that can power small electrical devices with minimal amounts of energy
Berkeley Conversations

Berkeley faculty discuss data science, computing in response to COVID-19

04/10/20 — Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter and Public Health Dean Michael Lu moderate April 7 roundtable with computing and data science researchers
Sanjam Garg and Aditya Parameswaran

Two engineering faculty named Sloan Research Fellows

02/12/20 — Sanjam Garg, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS), and Aditya Parameswaran, who has a joint appointment in EECS and the School of Information, were among nine Berkeley faculty members to win the prestigious research honor.
Digital data photo illustration

Berkeley’s data science division gets fresh new name

02/05/20 — The Division of Computing, Data Science and Society (CDSS) is the permanent name of Berkeley's interdisciplinary division launched in November 2018.

Berkeley professor Doug Tygar, leading expert in cybersecurity and privacy, has died

01/17/20 I School — 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.
Anyscale co-founders Robert Nishihara, Ion Stoica and Philipp Moritz

Grad students, Databricks founder tackle programming challenge

12/17/19 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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