Space mapping
06/02/18 — LeoLabs' radar technology tracks space debris and determines if it is hazardous to satellites or other spacecraft.
News
Out of the GAIT
06/02/18 — Students in the Fung Fellowship are building digital health technologies to meet the challenges of aging.
Then & now
06/02/18 — Over the past 150 years, Berkeley Engineering has created a legacy of innovation and public service.
Universities and the digital transformation of society
06/02/18 — Dean S. Shankar Sastry considers Berkeley's role during this age of artificial intelligence, cloud computing and the Internet of Things.
Solar power windows
06/02/18 — Researchers have created windows that automatically darken to block heat while also generating electricity.
‘Invisible’ displays
06/02/18 — A new development in LED technology may lead to “invisible” or vanishing displays.
Robot’s play
06/02/18 — Robots can manipulate objects they have never encountered before by building on previous play and observations.
Curing diseases with CRISPR
06/01/18 — Berkeley engineers are using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to advance cures for ALS and Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Blockchain comes to campus
06/01/18 — Blockchain at Berkeley, a student group, is bringing together those interested in engineering, business and technology law.
Dam scanning
06/01/18 — CEE professor Robert Kayen used lidar technology to evaluate the health of the Hume Lake Dam.
Solar cruiser
06/01/18 — Berkeley's CalSol team designed a new solar-powered vehicle that can hold four passengers.
Q+A on nuclear nonproliferation
06/01/18 — Bethany Lyles Goldblum is working on new technologies to aid in the detection of nuclear threats.
Redesigning wind power
06/01/18 — Berkeley Engineering students have designed a wind turbine that is quiet, efficient and protects birds.
Patterson wins Turing Award
06/01/18 — ECS professor David Patterson won the A.M. Turing Award for his work, with Stanford's John Hennessy, on RISC processor design.
Dean’s word: Leading our students toward a new future of work
06/01/18 — Dean S. Shankar Sastry reflects on how to best prepare students for the jobs of the future.
Fighting human trafficking
06/01/18 — Algorithms can link online sex ads to bitcoin transactions, identifying human traffickers.
Those four-wheeled robots on campus, explained
05/31/18 — The presence of talented EECS student engineers, along with plenty of hungry students and a gourmet local food scene, goes a long way to explain the decision by Felipe Chavez to launch his robot-powered meal delivery startup Kiwi in Berkeley.
A.M. Turing Award lecture to be livestreamed
05/29/18 HPC Wire — EECS professor emeritus David A. Patterson and former Stanford president John L. Hennessy, who received the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures, will jointly present the Turing Award Lecture on June 4 at the International Symposium of Computer Architecture in Los Angeles. The Turing Award lecture is open to the public and will be livestreamed.
Breaking new ground for TBSI
05/23/18 — The Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute reached a major milestone this month as ground was broken on a new campus in Shenzhen, China.
The future of AI depends on high school girls
05/23/18 The Atlantic — From a coding summer camp for high schoolers at Stanford to a project showcase for teens and their mentors at Berkeley, AI4All is working to widen the pipeline of women entering the field of artificial intelligence.