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Fiona Doyle

Fiona Doyle wins SME metallurgy award

09/21/16 — MSE professor Fiona Doyle, dean of the Graduate Division, has been selected by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration as the 2016 recipient of the Milton E. Wadsworth Award, which recognizes distinguished contributions that advance understanding of the science and technology of non-ferrous chemical metallurgy.
EECS professor Stuart Russell

Toward human-centric A.I.

09/20/16 — Twenty years ago, Stuart Russell co-wrote a book titled Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, destined to become the dominant text in its field. Near the end of the book, he posed a question: “What if A.I. does succeed?”
Top 50

In startup sweepstakes, it’s Cal vs. Stanford

09/14/16 — In the tech entrepreneurship race, Berkeley alumni created the most companies over the past decade, while Stanford graduated the most company founders, according to the industry analytics firm PitchBook.
Macchi Bears outside McLaughlin Hall on the engineering quadrant

Berkeley again ranks well with U.S. News

09/13/16 — Berkeley remained the top-ranked public university, and engineering was again the #3 program overall and the top public engineering school, in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report annual list of “America's Best Colleges.”
Bikes, streetcars, buses and more vehicles on a San Francisco street

SF, UC Berkeley to continue collaborating on ‘smart cities’

09/09/16 — This year's bid by San Francisco and UC Berkeley failed to win the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge, but the city and university have agreed to continue to jointly explore innovative urban transportation options, and ways that technology can improve city life in general.
Otto self-driving truck on highway test run

Uber Is betting we’ll see driverless 18-wheelers before taxis

09/08/16 MIT Technology Review — With its acquisition of self-driving truck startup Otto, Uber is hoping for a shortcut in the race to profit from driverless vehicles. But research engineer Steven Shladover of Berkeley's California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology Program (PATH) sees challenges - real and perceived - in putting 40-ton trucks on the road with only software behind the wheel.
VeHICaL project approach graphic

NSF funds cyber-physical systems research

09/06/16 National Science Foundation — The NSF on Tuesday awarded $4.6 million to VeHICaL (Verified Human Interfaces, Control, and Learning for Semi-Autonomous Systems), a project led by by EECS professor Sanjit Seshia that seeks to "impact the way humans collaborate and interact with automation." Researchers include EECS professors Ruzena Bajcsy, Shankar Sastry, Bjoern Hartmann, Claire Tomlin, and Tom Griffiths.
LBNL molecular foundry

Adam Arkin on Big Data and big problems

09/02/16 — Bioengineering professor Adam Arkin digs deep on current and future efforts to to harness the genetic potential of the earth to solve problems in soil quality, water quality, plant productivity, nutrition, and human-impacted health.
Child plays a video game synced to a spirometer

Startup creates device to predict asthma attacks in kids

09/02/16 ABC-7 News — Charvi Shetty (B.S.'12 BioE), founder of Knox Medical Diagnostics, has introduced a video game that records respiratory readings from pediatric asthma patients using the company's pioneering portable spirometer and smartphone app.
Homecoming road trip

Join us for Homecoming

09/01/16 — On homecoming weekend (Sept. 30-Oct. 2), the Berkeley campus and Berkeley Engineering host a fun-packed schedule of activities, ranging from classroom lectures and a design showcase to the homecoming BBQ and football game.
BRETT, the Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks, ties a knot after watching others demonstrate it.

Berkeley launches center to align AI systems with human values

08/29/16 — Berkeley artificial intelligence expert Stuart Russell will lead a new Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, launched this week. The primary focus of the multi-university center is to ensure that AI systems are beneficial to humans.
Cameron Baradar

Welcome to The House

08/23/16 — Cameron Baradar (B.S'15 EECS) is launching the startup of startups in hopes of bolstering Berkeley's entrepreneurship community.
Wei Gao and his sensor wristband, and Sergey Levine

Seven Berkeley engineers named top innovators under 35

08/23/16 — Wei Gao, an EECS postdoc developing wearable sweat sensors to monitor health, and EECS assistant professor Sergey Levine, who helped pioneer “deep learning” for robots, are among seven Berkeley engineers on this year's list of top innovators under 35, compiled by MIT Technology Review.
Ruzena Bajcsy and Michael Stonebreaker

7 over 70: New thinking from older innovators

08/23/16 MIT Technology Review — A companion to Tech Review's annual 35 Innovators Under 35 list features seven innovators older than 70, including EECS professor Ruzena Bajcsy and EECS professor emeritus Michael Stonebraker, now at MIT.
From Dean Sastry

Best of engineering and business, in one

08/23/16 — The M.E.T. Program, our exciting new partnership with the Haas School of Business, will guide students to earn two full B.S. degrees - one in engineering, one in business.