Jitendra Malik and EECS alumnus Christoph Bregler have won the 2008 Longuet-Higgins prize for "Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision That have Stood the Test of Time". The award will be given at IEEE CVPR 2008, Anchorage, Alaska. The citation reads: "Tracking people with twists and exponential maps. An inspired application of kinematic modeling techniques from robotics to the challenge of tracking people in motion from a single camera view, including a memorable model-based analysis of the Muybridge motion study videos." This is the second consecutive award for Prof. Malik - he was a co-winner of the 2007 prize for his paper with Jianbo Shi on "Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation."
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June 30
Kam Lau won the 2009 IEEE David Sarnoff Award. The award is given for exceptional contributions to electronics; the citation reads: "For seminal contributions to improved dynamics of quantum well semiconductor lasers." This is the second major award in optoelectronics garnered by Prof. Lau this year, following the Nicholas Holonyak Award from Optical Society of America earlier this year.
June 23
Richard M. Karp has been awarded the 2008 Kyoto Prize, an international award that honors significant contributions to the scientific, cultural and spiritual development of humanity. He has been selected to receive the award for his fundamental contributions to the theory of computational complexity, which he began developing in the early 1970s by establishing the theory of NP-completeness. In addition to creating many practical computer algorithms of his own, Prof. Karp's work has exerted profound influence on the guiding principles behind the analysis and design of algorithms used in many scientific disciplines.
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June 20
Ali Javey has been selected to present his research at the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 14th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. This event will bring together engineers ages 30 to 45 who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines. The participants--from industry, academia, and government--were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations and chosen from more than 230 applicants. The symposium will examine emerging nanoelectric devices, cognitive engineering, drug delivery systems, and understanding and countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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June 18
Tsu-Jae King-Liu and Ali Niknejad were presented plaques commemorating donations from Agilent Technologies for research laboratory equipment by Zena Fong of Agilent (far right). For 2008 Prof. King-Liu received $250k for an Analog Circuits undergraduate teaching laboratory and in 2007 Prof. Niknejad received $500k for a RF and Microwave teaching laboratory. Over the past 8 years Agilent has donated $3.2M to EECS for equipment for labs, memberships to research centers, research grants and fellowships.
June 13
On June 6, 2008 a reception was held in the Hearst Memorial Mining Building to honor the departure of the current EECS Chair, Edward A. Lee (2006-2008), and to welcome the new Chairs, Stuart J. Russell and Associate Chair, Costas J. Spanos.
June 9
Also at the reception for the departing and new EECS chairs, it was a rare opportunity to capture six EECS chairs (current and former) at one time. (Left to right) Jitendra Malik (2004-2006) Stuart J. Russell (current chair), Edward A. Lee (2006-2008), Lotfi A. Zadeh (1963-1968), David Hodges (1989-1990) and Shankar Sastry (2000-2004).
June 8
Koushik Sen has won an NSF Faculty Early Career Award for his project "Scalable Automated Software Testing and Repair". This prestigious award supports junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research and excellent education which should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.
June 7
Jan Rabaey has won the 2008 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Mac Van Valkenburg award. The Van Valkenburg award is the most prestigious award offered by the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society. It was awarded to Prof. Rabaey "for seminal contributions to the fields of VLSI implementation of signal processing and communication algorithms, design methodologies and computer-aided design tools, configurable computing, and low-power digital and RF circuit and system design, and for his dedication to undergraduate and graduate education."
June 6
Over 600 people attended the Tribute to Honor Jim Gray, UC Berkeley alumnus and researcher, held at Zellerbach Auditorium on Saturday, May 31. The tribute celebrated his achievements on campus and in the field of computer science and was organized and sponsored by friends and family of Jim Gray, EECS, UC Berkeley, the ACM, IEEE, Sun Microsystems and USENIX. Webcast of the event is available at berkeley.webcast.
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June 2
Anthony Joseph has been elected to Association for Computing Machinery Council as Member-At-Large, against a very strong slate. Elected members are recognized for significant accomplishments or achieved a significant impact on the computing field.
May 27
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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