| Yahoo! Inc. announced it has expanded partnerships with top U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. UC Berkeley, Cornell University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Carnegie Mellon University will be using Yahoo!’s cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale systems software research and explore new applications that analyze Internet-scale data sets, ranging from voting records to online news sources. More
April 9
EECS alumni Sehat Sutardja, Pantas Sutardja and Weili Dai, founders of Marvell Technology Group Ltd., were featured in a Wall Street Journal.blogs article titled “Fabs, in Berkeley? Yes, With Help From Marvell Founders”. Marvell donated more than $20M for Sutardja Dai Hall, the 141,000-square-foot building that is now home for the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
March 16
 The 2009 BEARS conference drew almost 300 participants for a full day of presentations of current research being conducted in EECS research centers. Topics included the future of wireless networks (BWRC), neural cell replacement for Parkinson’s Disease (BSAC), and Berkeley’s View on Cloud Computing (RAD Lab) and many more. Presentations were given by professors Jan Rabaey, Kris Pister, Kameshwar Poolla, Armando Fox, David Patterson, and Shankar Shastry. The keynote talk was given by Prof. Randy Katz titled “A Systems View of the Energy Challenge”. At the catered lunch in the Hearst Memorial Mining Building posters of contestants in the Berkeley Business Plan Competition were up for viewing. After lunch several EECS research centers hosted an Open House with live demos, talks and poster sessions.
February 12, 2009
On June 9, 2008 a Sun Modular Datacenter (SUN MD), also known as “Project Blackbox” was delivered and installed next to Soda Hall. The SUN MD is the world's first virtualized datacenter in a shipping container with an IT infrastructure that delivers the highest levels of performance. Due to outgrowing the constraints of current datacenter space within Soda Hall, the SUN MD was conceived as a solution for building a larger datacenter without using more classroom and office space. It will replace 6 traditional machine rooms and allows “plug & play” into the department’s existing infrastructure. The initial plan will house the equipment clusters of three high profile research projects, the RAD Lab, PAR Lab and Deter Lab.Video - "UC Berkeley: Sun Modular Datacenter Installation"
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August 26
 Over 700 people attended the tribute honoring UC Berkeley alumnus and researcher Jim Gray held at Zellerbach Auditorium on Saturday, May 31, to celebrate his achievements on campus and in the field of computer science. The tribute was organized and sponsored by Friends and Family of Jim Gray, the Industrial Relations Office, EECS, UC Berkeley, the ACM, IEEE, Sun Microsystems and USENIX. Several articles appeared in the news and a webcast of the event will be available at berkeley.webcast.
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June 2, 2008
 Intel and Microsoft are partnering with the new Parallel Computing Lab to accelerate developments in parallel computing and advance the powerful benefits of multi-core processing to mainstream consumer and business computers. David Patterson is the director, and principal investigators include Krste Asanovic, Ras Bodik, James Demmel, Kurt Keutzer, John Kubiatowicz, Koushik Sen, and Katherine Yelick. Berkeley was ranked #1 in a competition with 25 other computer science departments. Intel and Microsoft expect to invest a combined $10 million over the next five years to the UC Berkeley Parallel Computing Lab. More>>
March 17
 Professor Ali Niknejad was featured in an Agilent Technologies interview titled "Agilent Researcher and UC Berkeley Professor Discuss the Mutual Benefits of Their Industry-University Relationship". One of Agilent's mandates is to take an active role in supporting higher education and research by building solid, mutually beneficial relationships with colleges and universities around the world in areas of common interest. Agilent's University Relations programs include research grants, mentorships, and philanthropic equipment grants, among other activities.
March 17
 The IMPACT (Integrated Modeling, Process, and Computation for Technology) research project has just been funded for an $8.8M budget over the next four years. IMPACT's objective is to bring together world-class researchers dedicated to the creation of knowledge and tools that will enable IC design and IC manufacturing to cooperate smoothly as IC technologies move past the 45nm node. The PI is Kameshwar Poolla. Other EECS professors involved are Elad Alon, Nathan Cheung, Chenming Hu, Michael Lieberman, Andy Neureuther, Tsu-Jae King Liu, and Costas Spanos. The sponsors are UC Discovery and the following companies: AMD, Applied Materials, ASML, Cadence, Canon, Ebara, Hitachi Global Storage, IBM, Intel , KLA-Tencor, Magma Design, Marvell, Mentor Graphics, Novellus, Panoramic, Sandisk, Spansion, Synopsys, Tokyo TEL, and Xilinx.
February 7
 The University of California, Berkeley announced plans to establish the first endowed faculty chair at the Berkeley Center for New Media with a donation of $1.6 million from craigslist, one of the most popular Web sites in the world. The donation, which will support research, symposia and lectures, will be matched with $1.5 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for a total of $3.1 million. This donation conveys that new media, as a subject, is analogous to biology, geology ... that it is a timeless, very important and rigorous field.... Craigslist chief executive officer Jim Buckmaster said the campus' technical innovations and history of counterculture motivated him to donate to the center. "It's hard for me to think of any single entity to which Craigslist and the Internet at large, or the Bay Area and the world at large owes more," he said in an e-mail. "Our top public universities are the best things we have for us, and supporting them is always important, but especially so at a time when private universities are using their unprecedented wealth in a predatory manner." More >>
January 23, 2008
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