Dave Patterson has been named the 2008 winner of the ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award. This award is given for seminal contributions to RISC microprocessor architectures, RAID storage systems design, and reliable computing, and for leadership in education and in disseminating academic research results into successful industrial products.
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May 15
EECS undergrad student Matt Johnson is one of five finalists for the University Medal. Established in 1871 by California Governor Henry Huntly Haight, the University Medal honors the most distinguished graduating senior on the Berkeley campus. Johnson will be starting the EECS Ph.D. program at MIT in the Fall, and when asked where he sees himself in ten years, he stated "I hope to be married to my girlfriend, Lily, and back at Berkeley as a faculty member!"
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May 13
Three of our computer science graduate students, Chetan Nandakumar, advisor Jitendra Malik, Arlo Faria, advisor Nelson Morgan, and AJ Shankar, advisor Rastilav Bodik, tied for first place at the 10th annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition at the Haas School of Business. Their entry, called Implicit Interfaces, is a revolutionary new search technology that leverages computer vision and machine learning techniques.
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May 9
Leon Chua's theory on memory resistors, nicknamed "memristor" is featured in a Nature.com news article titled, "Found: the missing circuit element". In 1971 Prof. Chua postulated the existence of memristors, essentially resistors with memory. Now, 37 years later, researchers at HP Labs in Palo Alto have created a memristor circuit that could revolutionize computing.
NY Times
Wall St. Journal (registration may be required)
SF Chronicle
May 1
Ruzena Bajcsy has been elected to the American Academy of Arts &
Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies
and independent policy research centers. The Academy honors excellence by electing to membership remarkable men and women who have made preeminent contributions to their fields, and to the world.
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April 28
EECS alumna Valerie Taylor, Ph.D. '91 has been elected to the board of the Computing Research Association. Currently she is Professor and head of the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. Her research interests are in high performance computing, with particular emphasis on the performance analysis and modeling of parallel and distributed applications.
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April 25
The latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report, "America's Best Graduate Schools 2009" have placed our Computer Science program at #1, tied with Stanford and MIT. Our Electrical Engineering program was #2, tied with Stanford. MIT came in first in this category. In Subareas (Theory and Systems), we came in first and our Programming Languages ranked #2 (behind CMU). Our undergraduate Electrical Engineering program has been ranked #2.
UC Berkeley's graduate and undergraduate Engineering program overall ranked #3 (behind MIT and Stanford).
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April 17
David Wagner led a California-commissioned study last year of the three major electronic voting systems. The findings of this study were featured in several news articles about the serious vulnerabilities in each system that would allow someone with access to just one of the machines to spread a virus that would infect all the other machines in the system and essentially control the outcome.
c|net News
PC World
April 10
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