How UC Berkeley researchers are making online spaces safer for all
10/02/24 — Researchers are building tools to support freedom of expression on the internet while minimizing the potential for harm
AI & robotics
Watch a UC Berkeley digital forensics expert break down political deepfakes
10/01/24 — Hany Farid shows how to spot AI-generated political content
AI hardware hub awarded $16.3M from DOD
09/26/24 — Hub led by Stanford and UC Berkeley gets funding for three projects aimed at ultra-efficient hardware for AI applications
Kristin Persson receives DOE’s Distinguished Scientist Fellow Award
08/12/24 — Berkeley Lab: Award recognizes “pioneering advancements in data-driven materials design and discovery,” provides $1M in direct funding to support her research
Dozing at the wheel? Not with these fatigue-detecting earbuds
08/05/24 — Berkeley researchers have created earpieces that identify brain activity associated with relaxation and drowsiness
CS Ph.D. student aims to improve AI for underserved languages and communities
08/01/24 — CDSS: Hellina Hailu Nigatu to develop computing tools with “community values in mind”
Student engineers named UC Berkeley Climate Innovation fellows by CITRIS
06/14/24 — CITRIS: Rising entrepreneurs Youngseok Jo and Bear Häon will receive $10,000 each to advance innovative projects that address urgent environmental challenges
Using AI to get people out of their cars and into HOVs
06/10/24 — HumanLight traffic signal technology incentivizes ridesharing
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
05/31/24 — MIT Technology Review: Researchers are using generative AI, other techniques to teach robots new skills — including tasks they could perform in homes
Ready to roll
05/31/24 — Advanced navigation for spherical robots like BB-8 may be possible thanks to new insights into holonomy.
Grand designs
05/31/24 — An innovative design method leverages AI and additive manufacturing to create better-performing materials.
Bridging the brain
05/31/24 — A new interdisciplinary class explores the relationship between art, AI and robotics.
Researchers design soft actuators that mimic ‘bone-in-flesh’ structure of human limbs
05/28/24 — Devices exhibit ultrafast performance, extreme impact resistance — and can be easily fabricated in under an hour
Five engineering professors among 2024 Spark Award winners
05/22/24 — Bakar Fellows Program: Recipients embody the spirit of innovation and collaboration that defines UC Berkeley’s entrepreneurial ecosystem
EECS professor Hany Farid and I School Ph.D. students featured on PBS Nova
04/17/24 — School of Information: The episode, “A.I. Revolution,” covers the dangers of deepfakes — and how easily they can be created
Francisca Vasconcelos chosen as Paul and Daisy Soros New American fellow
04/17/24 — CDSS: EECS doctoral student to receive up to $90,000 through merit-based program for immigrants, children of immigrants
How to keep AI from killing us all
04/09/24 — UC Berkeley researchers: Companies should not be allowed to create advanced AI systems until they can prove they are safe
How scientists are accelerating chemistry discoveries with automation
04/08/24 — Berkeley Lab: New statistical-modeling workflow, developed by MSE professor Kristin Persson’s group, may help advance drug discovery and synthetic chemistry
UC Berkeley summit tackles AI governance, trust, ethical tech
03/21/24 — School of Information: Computer scientists Stuart Russell and Deborah Raji discuss European Union AI Act
Watch this robot as it learns to stitch up wounds
03/05/24 — MIT Technology Review: Berkeley researchers' AI-trained surgical robot was able to sew six stitches on its own — and has lessons for robotics as a whole