Going with the Flow
05/01/19 — Researchers have developed a machine-learning tool to manage traffic where autonomous, partially-automated and manual vehicles share the road.
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New & noteworthy
05/01/19 — Class notes and other updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni and faculty.
Eli Yablonovitch wins Franklin Medal
05/01/19 — Eli Yablonovitch was awarded the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering.
Alum’s breakthrough endometriosis test
05/01/19 — Heather Bowerman's company, DotLab, has developed the first non-invasive test for endometriosis.
Farewell
05/01/19 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni
Vasuki Swamy named 2019 Marconi scholar
04/30/19 Marconi Society — Vasuki Narasimha Swamy (Ph.D. '18 EECS) has been named a 2019 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award for her work to design robust wireless protocol frameworks for ultra-reliable low-latency communications.
UC Berkeley expands responsible data and computer sciences curriculum
04/30/19 — The Responsible Computer Science Challenge, an ambitious $3.5 million initiative, has chosen UC Berkeley as one of its inaugural awardees. The award will support UC Berkeley faculty and students in computer science, social science, and humanities to develop and scale Berkeley's groundbreaking ethics curriculum for data science and computer science.
Master plan survey highlights hot – and less-than-hot – spots at Berkeley Engineering
04/26/19 — Berkeley Engineering is working with the architectural design firm Payette to update the college's facilities master plan. Results from a February 2019 survey of faculty, staff and students are a key part of that process.
Squishy robots can drop from a helicopter and land safely
04/24/19 — New soccer-ball-shaped robots, created by engineers at Berkeley and Squishy Robotics, can fall hundreds of feet and be no worse for wear, or shape-shift in order to crawl from one point to another.
Stuart Russell is a 2019 Carnegie Fellow
04/23/19 Carnegie Corporation — Stuart Russell, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was named a 2019 Carnegie Fellow. He was recognized for his artificial intelligence work.
On rebuilding Notre Dame
04/19/19 — CEE professor Matthew De Jong discusses the proposed reconstruction of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral.
A robot that can be safely dropped out of a helicopter
04/18/19 Tech Crunch — Squishy Robotics, developed in part by mechanical engineering professor Alice Agogino, may someday help first responders assess a situation before they jump into it.
Elwyn Berlekamp, game theorist and coding pioneer, dies
04/18/19 — Elwyn Berlekamp, professor emeritus of mathematics and of EECS, developed error-correcting codes that allowed spacecraft from Voyager to the Hubble Space Telescope to send accurate and detailed images back to Earth.
Claire Tomlin elected to AAAS
04/17/19 — EECS professor Claire Tomlin is one of nine Berkeley faculty honored with membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2019.
Can’t sing? These undergrads have a karaoke booth just for you
04/16/19 — A trio of undergraduates, including M.E.T. freshman Luofei Chen and EECS junior Aayush Tyagi, have launched Oki Karaoke, a startup that hopes to bring soundproof karaoke pods, already popular across Asia, to the United States.
Jordan Edmunds named 2019 Hertz Fellow
04/16/19 Hertz Foundation — Jordan Edmunds, a PhD student in EECS, was named a 2019 Hertz Fellow. He specializes in the fabrication of neural interfaces- tools for studying and interacting with the brain.
A robot has figured out how to use tools
04/15/19 MIT Tech Review — A machine built by UC Berkeley researchers drew on experimentation, data and observation of humans to learn how simple implements could help it achieve a task.
Microscopic ‘traffic cops’ for optical communications
04/15/19 — Berkeley engineers have built a new photonic switch that can control the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently than ever - and possibly revolutionize how information travels through data centers and high-performance supercomputers.
Falling levels of air pollution drove decline in California’s tule fog
04/10/19 — The Central Valley's heavy wintertime tule fog – known for snarling traffic and closing schools - has been on the decline over the past 30 years, and falling levels of air pollution are the cause, says a new study by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.
Obituary: Jean Paul Jacob, CITRIS special advisor
04/10/19 — CITRIS Special Advisor Jean Paul Jacob, an internationally renowned expert on informatics for the 21st century, died on Sunday, April 7.