CS Faculty List

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	Maneesh Agrawala Assistant Professor
		635 Soda Hall, 643-8220, maneesh@eecs Research Interests: Graphics (GR); Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Office Hours: W 2:30-4pm, F 5-6pm, 615 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 294-10. Visualization, M W 1:00-2:30P, 405 Soda

	Krste Asanović Associate Professor
		430 Soda Hall, 510-642-6506, krste@eecs Research Interests: Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC); Design of Electronic Systems (DES); Integrated Circuits (INC); Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT) Office Hours: M 1-3 (email to confirm), 430 Soda Assistants: Tammy Johnson, 719 Soda, 643-4816, tamille@eecs

	Ruzena Bajcsy Professor
		665 Soda Hall, 510-642-9423, bajcsy@eecs Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR); Graphics (GR); Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer vision; Bridging information technology to humanities and social sciences; Security (SEC) Office Hours: M W 9-10, 665 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 39M. Information Technology in Society: Ethical, Policy and Legal Issues of Designing New Technology, M 2:00-4:00P, 320 Soda EE C125. Introduction to Robotics, TuTh 2:-00-3:30P, 299 Cory

	Brian A. Barsky Professor
		785 Soda Hall, 510-642-9838, barsky@cs Research Interests: Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Graphics (GR); Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); computer-aided geometric design & modeling visualization in scientific computing, computer-aided cornea modeling and visualization Office Hours: Tu/Th 5-6, 785 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 39J. The Art and Science of Photography: Drawing with Light, F 12:00-2:00P, 405 Soda CS 194-8. Advanced Digital Animation, T T 4:00-6:00P, 380 Soda CS 294-7. The Art of Animation, M 3:00-6:00P, 380 Soda

	Peter Bartlett Professor
		723 Soda Hall, 510-642-7780, bartlett@eecs Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, statistical learning theory; Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR) Office Hours: Tue 9:30-10:30, 399 Evans; Thu 3-4, 723 Soda

	Ras Bodik Associate Professor
		773 Soda Hall, 510-642-2488, bodik@eecs Research Interests: Programming Systems (PS), Software engineering; Program analysis; Computer architecture Office Hours: Wed 9:30-10:30, 773 Soda; Mon 2:30-3:30, 773 Soda; -- Assistants: Tammy Johnson, 719 Soda, 643-4816, tamille@eecs

	Eric Brewer Professor
		623 Soda Hall, 510-642-8143, brewer@cs Research Interests: Energy (ENE); Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Security (SEC); Developing regions; Programming languages Office Hours: M 2:30-3:30, Th 1-2, 623 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 262A. Advanced Topics in Computer Systems, MW 1:00-2:30P, 306 Soda

	John F. Canny Professor
		637 Soda Hall, 510-642-9955, jfc@cs Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR); Graphics (GR); Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Security (SEC) Office Hours: Tu 3-4, 529 Soda; W 4-5, 529 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 160. User Interfaces, M W 10:30-12:00P, 306 Soda

	Michael J. Clancy Senior Lecturer
		779 Soda Hall, 510-642-7017, clancy@cs Research Interests: Programming Systems (PS); Computer science education; Programming languages and environments Office Hours: Tu 1:30-3:00, W 1:15-4:45, 779 Soda Assistants: Alexandra Falchi, 385 Soda, 510-642-7699, afalchi@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 61CL. Machine Structures, W 6:00-7:00P, 4 LeConte CS 298-40. CITRIS Education, TU 10:00-12:00, 606 Soda CS 301. Teaching Techniques, F 4:00-5:30P, 405 Soda

	David E. Culler Professor
		627 Soda Hall, 510-643-7572, culler@cs Research Interests: Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC); Energy (ENE); Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Programming Systems (PS); Security (SEC); Parallel architecture; High-performance networks; Workstation clusters Office Hours: T 3:30-5, F 10-11, 627 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 61CL. Machine Structures, W 6:00-7:00P, 4 LeConte

	Trevor Darrell Adjunct Associate Professor
		trevor@eecs Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

	James Demmel Professor
		737 Soda Hall, 510-643-5386, demmel@cs Research Interests: Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC); Scientific Computing (SCI); Numerical analysis; Linear algebra Office Hours: M 9-10, T 1-2, W 10-11, 737 Soda Assistants: Tammy Johnson, 719 Soda, 643-4816, tamille@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 298-6. Matrix Computations and Scientific Computing, W 11:00-12:30P, 380 Soda

	Jerome A. Feldman Professor
		739 Soda Hall, 510-666-2914, jfeldman@cs Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Security (SEC); cognitive science Office Hours: M 1-2, by e-mail appointment, 739 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS H196A. Senior Honors Thesis, UNSCHED CS H196B. Senior Honors Thesis, UNSCHED CS 297. Field Studies in CS

	Michael Franklin Professor
		687 Soda Hall, 510-642-1662, franklin@cs Research Interests: Database Management Systems (DBMS), Distributed Systems; Mobile and pervasive computing; Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT) Office Hours: On Leave; Meetings by appointment only., 687 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 186. Introduction to Databases, T T 11:00-12:30P, 306 Soda

	Dan Garcia Lecturer SOE
		795 Soda Hall, 510-642-9595, ddgarcia@cs Research Interests: Education (EDUC); Graphics (GR); Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Computational Game Theory Assistants: Alexandra Falchi, 385 Soda, 510-642-7699, afalchi@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): Self-paced CS ( 3S, 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D, 9E, 9F, 9G, 9H, 47A, 47B, 47C), C10 Hearst A CS 3L. Introduction to Symbolic Programming, M 5:00-6:00P, 390 HMMB CS 98-1. Macintosh Student Developers for OS X, Th 5:30-7:30P, 320 Soda CS 98-2. GamesCrafters, M 6:00-9:00P, 606 Soda CS 98-3. UC Berkeley Undergraduate Graphics Group (UCBUGG), TH 5:00-7:00P, 310 Soda CS 194-8. Advanced Digital Animation, T T 4:00-6:00P, 380 Soda CS 198-1. Macintosh Student Developers for OS X, Th 5:30-7:30P, 606 Soda CS 198-2. GamesCrafters, M 6:00-9:00P, 606 Soda CS 198-3. UC Berkeley Undergraduate Graphics Group (UCBUGG), TH 5:00-7:00P, 310 Soda

	Minos Garofalakis Adjunct Associate Professor
		minos@eecs Research Interests: Database Management Systems (DBMS)

	Ken Goldberg Professor
		4189 Etcheverry Hall, 510-643-9565, goldberg@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR), Networked robots; Robotics for automated manufacturing; Design of parts and devices for automation; Graphics (GR); Security (SEC); Art and technology Office Hours: MW 1:15-2pm, 4189 Etcheverry Assistants: Shivani Bhatia, 642-1012, shivanib@erso

	Susan L. Graham Professor Emerita, Professor in the Graduate School
		771 Soda Hall, 510-642-2059, graham@cs Research Interests: Graphics (GR); Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Programming Systems (PS); Scientific Computing (SCI); Software development environments, software engineering Office Hours: M 2-3:30, 771 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 298-18. Titanium, W 2:30-4:00P, 606 Soda

	Thomas Griffiths Below the Line, Assistant Professor
		3210 Tolman Hall, 642-7134, tom_griffiths@berkeley.edu

	Brian K. Harvey Lecturer SOE
		781 Soda Hall, 510-642-8311, bh@cs Research Interests: Education (EDUC) Office Hours: W 10-11:30, Th 4:10-5, 781 Soda Assistants: Jenny Jones, 339 Soda, 642-9044, jennyj@cs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 61A. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, M W F 2:00-3:00P, 1 Pimentel CS C195. Social Implications of Computers, M W 4:00-5:30P, 373 Soda

	Marti Hearst Below the Line, Associate Professor
		212 South Hall, 510-642-8016, hearst@ischool Research Interests: information retrieval, user interfaces, computational linguistics Office Hours: M 1:10-2:10, W 1:10-2:10, 212 South Assistants: Barbara Goto, 510-643-2614, bgoto@sims

	Joseph M. Hellerstein Professor
		685 Soda Hall, 510-643-4011 Research Interests: Database Management Systems (DBMS); Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Security (SEC) Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 294-39. Data Management for Collaborative Environments, T T 12:30-2:00P, 310 Soda CS 298-12. Database Seminar, F 1:00-2:30P, 606 Soda

	Paul N. Hilfinger Associate Professor
		787 Soda Hall, 510-642-8401, hilfingr@cs Research Interests: Programming Systems (PS); Scientific Computing (SCI); Software engineering; Parallel programming techiques Office Hours: Tu 1-2, Th 2-3, 787 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 61B. Data Structures, M W F 1:00-2:00P, 120 Latimer

	Michael Jordan Professor
		731 Soda Hall, jordan@cs Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR); Signal Processing (SP); Statistical Machine Learning Office Hours: 3:00-4:00, Thursday, 731 Soda; 3:00-4:00, Tuesday, 401 Evans

	Anthony D. Joseph Associate Professor
		465 Soda Hall, 510-643-7212, adj@cs Research Interests: Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Security (SEC); Computer and Network Security; Distributed systems; Mobile computing; Wireless networking; Software engineering, and operating systems Office Hours: M 2-3pm, Tu 2-3pm, 413 Soda Assistants: Kattt Sammon, 465 Soda, 3-3499, sammon@eecs; Christina Allen, 465 Soda, 3-0264, callen@eecs

	William M. Kahan Professor
		733 Soda Hall, 510-642-5638, wkahan@cs Research Interests: Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC); Scientific Computing (SCI); Computer architecture; Scientific computing; Numerical analysis Office Hours: Irregular- phone for app't

	Richard M. Karp Professor
		621 Soda Hall, 510-642-5799, karp@cs Research Interests: Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Theory (THY) Office Hours: M 1:30-2:30, 621 Soda Assistants: Jenna Shafer, 695 Soda, 642-9467, jennasha@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 270. Combinatorial Algorithms and Data Structures, T T 12:30-2:00P, 405 Soda

	Randy H. Katz Professor
		465 Soda Hall, 510-642-8778, randy@cs Research Interests: Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC); Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Distributed and networked systems design and implementation Office Hours: M 2-3, Th 1-2, 645 Soda Assistants: Kattt Sammon, 465 Soda, 3-3499, sammon@eecs; Christina Allen, 465 Soda, 3-0264, callen@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 268. Graduate Computer Networking, T T 2:00-3:30P, 405 Soda

	Daniel Klein Assistant Professor
		775 Soda Hall, 510-643-0805, klein@cs Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning Office Hours: Tuesday 12:30-1:30pm, 775 Soda; Thursday 12:30-1:30pm, 775 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 188. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, T T 12:30-2:00P, 277 Cory

	John D. Kubiatowicz Associate Professor
		673 Soda Hall, 510-643-6817, kubitron@cs Research Interests: Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Security (SEC); Computer architecture; Quantum computer design; Internet-scale storage systems; Peer-to-peer networking Office Hours: M/W 2:00-3:00, 673 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 162. Operating Systems and System Programming, M W 4:00-5:30P, 100 Lewis

	Jitendra Malik Professor
		725 Soda Hall, 510-642-7597, malik@cs Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR); Graphics (GR); Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Signal Processing (SP); Office Hours: M 11-12, Tu 11-12, 725 Soda Assistants: Tammy Johnson, 719 Soda, 643-4816, tamille@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS C280. Computer Vision, T T 2:00-3:30P, 310 Soda

	Elchanan Mossel Associate Professor
		423 Evans Hall, mossel@stat Research Interests: Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Theory (THY)

	George Necula Associate Professor
		783 Soda Hall, 510-643-1481, necula@cs Research Interests: Programming Systems (PS); Security (SEC); software engineering, security, program analysis Office Hours: Wed 1:30-2:30, 783 Soda Assistants: Liliana Gonzalez, 510-642-8395, lilianag@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 298-22. Programming Systems, M 4:00-5:30P, 320 Soda

	James O'Brien Associate Professor
		633 Soda Hall, 510-642-0865, job@eecs Research Interests: Graphics (GR); Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Scientific Computing (SCI); Computer animation, physical simulation, surface modeling, human perception of motion, computational geometry, image processing, scientific computing Office Hours: F 2-4, 633 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 184. Foundations of Computer Graphics, M W 2:30-4:00P, 306 Soda

	Lior Pachter Associate Professor
		1081 Evans Hall, 510-642-2028, lpachter@math Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)

	Christos Papadimitriou Professor
		689 Soda Hall, 510-642-1559, christos@cs Research Interests: Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Database Management Systems (DBMS); Theory (THY) Office Hours: We Th 5-6, 689 Soda Assistants: Jenna Shafer, 695 Soda, 642-9467, jennasha@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 70. Discrete Math & Probability, T T 11:00-12:30P, 105 North Gate CS 70-2. Discrete Math & Probability, M W 2:00-4:00P, 293 Cory CS 294-29. Algorithmic Game Theory, M W 2:30-4:00P, 405 Soda

	David A. Patterson Professor
		465 Soda Hall, 642-6587, pattrsn@eecs Research Interests: Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC), Computer Architecture and Systems: Parallel Computing performance, correctness, productivity; Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT) Office Hours: M 2-3, 413 Soda Assistants: Kattt Sammon, 465 Soda, 3-3499, sammon@eecs; Christina Allen, 465 Soda, 3-0264, callen@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 194-4. Web 2.0 Programming Using Ruby on Rails, T T 5:00-6:30P, 306 Soda

	Vern Paxson Associate Professor
		737 Soda Hall, 3-4209, vern@eecs Research Interests: Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Security (SEC) Office Hours: By appointment - send email, 630 ICSI

	Satish Rao Professor
		681 Soda Hall, 510-642-4328, satishr@cs Research Interests: Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Theory (THY) Office Hours: M 11-12, 679 Soda Assistants: Jenna Shafer, 695 Soda, 642-9467, jennasha@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 170. Introduction to CS Theory, T T 9:30-11:00A, 306 Soda CS 294-26. Algorithm Toolkit, M W 10:30-12:00P, 310 Soda

	Stuart J. Russell Professor, Chair
		389 Soda Hall, 510-642-8736, russell@cs Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR); machine learning; real-time decision-making; algorithms; probabilistic reasoning; computational biology Office Hours: By appointment, 389 Soda Assistants: Alexandra Falchi, 385 Soda, 510-642-7699, afalchi@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 298-3. EECS Colloquium, W 4:00-5:30P, 306 Soda CS 298-10. AI/Robotics/Vision, TH 4:00-5:30P, 320 Soda CS 602. Independent Study for Doctoral Students

	Koushik Sen Assistant Professor
		683 Soda Hall, 510-642-2420, ksen@cs Research Interests: Programming Systems (PS), Software Engineering, Programming Languages, and Formal Methods: Software Testing, Verification, Model Checking, Runtime Monitoring, Performance Evaluation, and Computational Logic.; Security (SEC) Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 169. Software Engineering, M W 1:00-2:30P, 310 Soda

	Carlo H. Séquin Professor
		639 Soda Hall, 510-642-5103, sequin@cs Research Interests: Graphics (GR); Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Art, mathematics, and geometrical sculpture; CAD tools, geometric modeling Office Hours: Mon 11-12, Wed 2-3, or by appointment, 639 Soda

	Scott Shenker Professor
		465 Soda Hall, 510-643-3043, shenker@icsi Research Interests: Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Security (SEC); Internet Architecture, Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Game Theory, Wireless Sensornets Office Hours: Send me email to arrange

	Jonathan Shewchuk Associate Professor
		625 Soda Hall, 510-642-3936, jrs@cs Research Interests: Graphics (GR); Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Scientific Computing (SCI), Computational geometry; Computer arithmetic; Numerical analysis; Theory (THY) Office Hours: Mondays 5:30-6:30 pm, 625 Soda; Thursdays 3-4 pm, 625 Soda

	Horst Simon Adjunct Professor
		50B-4230 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 510-486-7377, hdsimon@eecs Research Interests: Scientific Computing (SCI) Assistants: Roxanne Clark, 50B-4238 LBNL, 510-486-6118, raclark@lbl.gov

	Alistair Sinclair Professor
		677 Soda Hall, 510-643-8144, sinclair@cs Research Interests: Theory (THY); Randomized algorithms; applied probability; statistical physics Office Hours: M 1:30-2:30, Tu 12:45-1:45, 677 Soda Assistants: Jenna Shafer, 695 Soda, 642-9467, jennasha@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 271. Randomness and Computation, T T 9:30-11:00A, 310 Soda CS 298-2. Theory Seminar, M 4:00-5:30P, 306 Soda

	Alan J. Smith Professor
		735 Soda Hall, 510-642-5290, smith@cs Research Interests: Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC); Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Computer System Performance Analysis Office Hours: On Sabbatical-email for Mondays by appt, 735 Soda Assistants: Diana Chang, 734 Soda, 2-8271, smithsec@eecs

	Dawn Song Assistant Professor
		675 Soda Hall, 510-642-8282, dawnsong@cs Research Interests: Security (SEC) Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 161. Computer Security, M W 9:00-10:30A, 310 Soda

	Yun S. Song Assistant Professor
		683 Soda Hall, 510-642-2211, yss@eecs Research Interests: Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Theory (THY); Applied Probability Office Hours: W 5:15-6:15, 321 Evans; Th 11:30-12:30, 765 Soda Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 174. Computers and Discrete Probability, T T 5:00-6:30P, B51 Hildebrand

	Ion Stoica Associate Professor
		465 Soda Hall, 510-643-4007, istoica@eecs Research Interests: Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Security (SEC); Networking and distributed computer systems, Quality of Service (Q of S) and resources management, modeling and performance analysis Office Hours: T 4-5:30, 465 Soda Assistants: Kattt Sammon, 465 Soda, 3-3499, sammon@eecs; Christina Allen, 465 Soda, 3-0264, callen@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): EE 122. Introduction to Communication Networks, MW 4:00-5:30P, 277 Cory

	Bernd Sturmfels Professor
		925 Evans Hall, 510-642-4687, bernd@math Research Interests: Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Theory (THY) Office Hours: T 9:45-11am, F 10:30-11:30am, 925 Evans

	Luca Trevisan Associate Professor
		679 Soda Hall, 510-642-8006, luca@eecs Research Interests: Security (SEC); Theory (THY), (Computational Complexity, Randomness in Computation, Combinatorial Optimization) Office Hours: Tu 2-3, 679 Soda; Th 2-3, 679 Soda Assistants: Jenna Shafer, 695 Soda, 642-9467, jennasha@eecs

	Doug Tygar Professor
		531 Soda Hall, 510-643-7855, doug.tygar@gmail.com Research Interests: Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Security (SEC); electronic commerce, computer security, cryptography, privacy Office Hours: by appointment, 531 Soda Assistants: Barbara Goto, 510-643-2614, bgoto@sims Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 294-22. Security, TU 2:00-5:00P, 320 Soda

	Umesh Vazirani Professor
		671 Soda Hall, 510-642-0572, vazirani@cs Research Interests: Security (SEC); Theory (THY), Complexity theory Assistants: Jenna Shafer, 695 Soda, 642-9467, jennasha@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS C191. Quantum Information Science and Technology, T T 12:30-2:00P, 180 Tan CS 294-26. Algorithm Toolkit, M W 10:30-12:00P, 310 Soda CS 298-14. TGIF, F 3:30-5:00P, 373 Soda

	David Wagner Associate Professor
		629 Soda Hall, 510-642-2758, daw@cs Research Interests: Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT); Security (SEC); Computer Security, cryptography, systems, and theory Office Hours: T 1:00-2:00pm, 629 Soda Assistants: Angie Abbatecola, 784 Soda, (510) 643-6413, angie@cs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 261. Security in Computer Systems, T T 11:00-12:30P, 310 Soda

	John Wawrzynek Professor
		631 Soda Hall, 510-643-9434, johnw@cs Research Interests: Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC) Office Hours: M 4:00-5:30 and by appointment, 631 Soda Assistants: Rakhi Cook, 510-643-4013, rakhic@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 194-6. Digital Systems Project Laboratory, M 10:30A-12:00P, 405 Soda CS 250. VLSI Systems Design, T T 12:30-2:00P, 320 Soda

	Katherine A. Yelick Professor
		777 Soda Hall, 510-642-8900, yelick@cs Research Interests: Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO); Programming Systems (PS); Scientific Computing (SCI); parallel programming techniques Assistants: Tammy Johnson, 719 Soda, 643-4816, tamille@eecs

	Lotfi A. Zadeh Professor Emeritus, Professor in the Graduate School
		729 Soda Hall, 510-642-4959, zadeh@cs Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR); soft computing, knowledge-based systems Assistants: Ixel Chavez, 510-642-8271, flaca@eecs Teaching Schedule (Fall 2008): CS 298-11. Search Engines & Soft Computing, TU 4:00-5:00P, 310 Soda