Origin science
11/01/15 — Where did the first Americans come from? Recent findings suggest evidence that both supports and dispels some earlier ideas about the origin of the Americas.
Electrical engineering
Toy tinkerer makes good
11/01/15 — Prolific inventor and designer Jack McCauley (EECS '86) has made a $2.5-million gift to establish the McCauley Family Fund in Design Innovation to support programs within the Jacobs Institute.
Undergrad research on the rise at Cal
10/27/15 Blum Center — A team of six young EECS students working in the Computational Imaging Lab, whose LED array dome extended the reach of the CellScope microscope, exemplifies the mutual benefits of research by undergraduates at UC Berkeley.
Battling malware from within
10/22/15 PC Magazine — In a keynote address at the MalCon 2015 conference, EECS professor Vern Paxson offered an innovative idea for handling large-scale security problems like malware distribution, fake accounts and spam-spewing botnets: infiltrate the attacker from the outset.
Yablonovitch wins condensed matter physics prize
10/21/15 American Physical Society — EECS professor Eli Yablonovitch, director of the Berkeley-based NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science, has been awarded the 2016 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize by the American Physical Society "for seminal achievements in solar cells and strained quantum well lasers, and especially for creating the field of photonic crystals."
EECS-linked startups boost entrepreneurship ranking
09/30/15 — With 118 startups under their collective belt, faculty and alumni in EECS have contributed heavily to UC Berkeley's #2 ranking for VC-backed undergraduate entrepreneurs and companies, as measured by the venture-capital research firm PitchBook.
Researchers talk new diagnostic methods at global tech conference
09/18/15 — Four Berkeley Engineering professors took part in the World Economic Forum's ninth Annual Meeting of the New Champions last week in Dalian, China, leading a discussion on how breakthroughs in medical diagnostic technologies are transforming healthcare.
Foundation honors 9 Berkeley graduate students as Siebel Scholars
09/11/15 — The Siebel Scholars Foundation has named its 2016 class of exceptional graduate students, including nine from Berkeley. The Berkeley cohort includes five students from bioengineering, three from computer science and one from energy science.
EECS/TI art dedication ceremony
09/10/15 — On Thursday morning (Sept. 10), EECS and Texas Instruments will dedicate an art installation gifted to the department by TI and photographer Lekha Singh.
Preschool for robots
09/08/15 Bloomberg Business — Want machines to learn the way human toddlers do? You need a “classroom” equipped with Lego blocks and plenty of patience. Just ask Brett, or robotics professor Pieter Abbeel.
Stethoscope meets smartphone and the heart knows it’s right
09/08/15 LA Times — The Eko Core digital stethoscope, developed by a trio of Berkeley alumni, aims to bring auscultation - the ancient medical practice of listening to a patient's heartbeat - squarely into the 21st century. It was cleared for sale in the U.S. this month.
Self-sweeping laser could dramatically shrink 3-D mapping systems
09/03/15 — A new approach that uses light to move mirrors could usher in a new generation of laser technology for a wide range of applications, including remote sensing, self-driving car navigation and 3-D biomedical imaging. The engineering team was led by EECS professor Connie Chang-Hasnain.
Nature’s mood rings: How chameleons really change color
08/31/15 KQED — A PBS program on chameleons' color-changing abilities also looks at work led by EECS professor Connie Chang-Hasnain to create a color-changing array out of nano-sized silicon ribbons etched onto a flexible film.
Entrepreneur and alumna Rikky Muller named a top Innovator under 35
08/18/15 Berkeley Research — Rikky Muller (Ph.D.'13 EECS), co-founder of the medical device start-up Cortera Neurotechnologies, has been named one of 35 Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review. Muller's research into hardware that buzzes the brain at the right moments could help treat debilitating mental disorders.
Get this show on the code
08/17/15 Insight@Berkeley — As vice president of design and engineering at TiVo, Margret Schmidt (B.S'92 EECS) is passionate about the dynamic and fulfilling nature of product creation. She got a dose of that in her favorite Berkeley class, an E110 Venture Design course that required creation of a business plan and a final idea presentation.
Modern-day Edison creates design innovation fund
07/27/15 — Jack McCauley's (B.S'86 EECS) has been a lifelong tinkerer, inventor and modern-day Edison whose inventions have spanned several disciplines and industries.
Genes yield clues to arrival of first Americans
07/21/15 — Statistical models, including one created by EECS and statistics associate professor Yun Song, confirm that the original Americans crossed a land bridge from Siberia in a single wave no more than 23,000 years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age.
Ernest S. Kuh, Berkeley Engineering professor and dean emeritus, 1928–2015
07/08/15 — Ernest S. Kuh, dean and professor emeritus at the College of Engineering and an internationally renowned expert in electronic circuit theory, died on June 27. He was 86. A campus memorial will be held this September.
UC Berkeley holds NSA-sponsored hacking summer camp for teens
07/06/15 KGO-TV — It is summer camp season and at UC Berkeley it is the government's cyberspies - the National Security Agency - who are sponsoring the summer fun. Instead of cloak and dagger, it's all about codes and hackers.
Institute of Physics awards Newton Medal to Eli Yablonovitch
07/01/15 — The United Kingdom's Institute of Physics has awarded its prestigious Isaac Newton Medal to EECS professor Eli Yablonovitch, a pioneer in the field of optoelectronics and nanophotonics.