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The Simons Foundation has awarded a landmark $60 million grant to UC Berkeley to establish a theory of computing institute that promises to catalyze new advances in broad disciplines that affect our everyday lives, from how we spend our money to how we fight disease.
Tag: computer science
Economists, computer scientists awarded prestigious Sloan fellowships
February 19, 2013:
UC Berkeley economists Frederico Finan and Yuriy Gorodnichenko and computer scientists Björn Hartmann and Michael Lustig are among 126 young scholars awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships for 2013.
Rewriting quantum chips with a beam of light
June 27, 2012:
The promise of ultrafast quantum computing has moved a step closer to reality with a technique to create rewritable computer chips using a beam of light. College of Chemistry professor Jeffrey Reimer and researchers from The City College of New York used light to control the spin of an atom’s nucleus in order to encode information.
NSF grant funds computer-assisted programming project
April 4, 2012:
UC Berkeley engineers, led by computer scientist Ras Bodik, will join the University of Pennsylvania and seven other research institutions in a project to make computer programming faster, easier and more intuitive. Dubbed ExCAPE, the project is led by Penn and funded by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Expeditions in Computing program.
Big grant for Big Data: NSF awards $10 million to harness vast quantities of data
March 29, 2012:
Never before has data analysis been so hot. The quest to capture the massive amounts of data being produced in our world — and thus unveil answers to some of society’s most vexing problems — has gotten a $10 million boost, via a National Science Foundation award to UC Berkeley.
Q&A: Sylvia Ratnasamy on helping students build their own networks
February 15, 2012:
Newly awarded a 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Sylvia Ratnasamy, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences in UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, talks about her passion for improving the Internet and for helping students build their own networks.
From EECS, an intelligent approach to mobile news
September 15, 2011:
Two grad students in EECS have developed a computer model that makes it easy to read summaries of news articles on smart phones and cell phones.
Ferroelectrics could pave way for ultra-low power computing
September 12, 2011:
UC Berkeley engineers have shown that by using ferroelectric materials, they can pump up the charge accumulated at a capacitor for a given voltage, a phenomenon called negative capacitance. The achievement could reduce the power draw of today’s electronics, and break the bottleneck that has stalled improvements in computer clock speed.
Magnetic memory and logic could achieve ultimate energy efficiency
July 1, 2011:
Information theory dictates that a logical operation in a computer must consume a minimum amount of energy. Today’s computers consume a million times more energy per operation than this limit, but magnetic computers with no moving electrons could theoretically operate at the minimum energy, called the Landauer limit, according to UC Berkeley electrical engineers.
New Intel lab will focus on secure computing
June 7, 2011:
Intel Labs announced a second Intel Science and Technology Center to open at UC Berkeley with a focus on secure computing. Funded by $15 million over five years, the new center will encourage tighter collaboration between university thought leaders and Intel.
Three faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 19, 2011:
Sociologist Claude Fischer, cognitive scientist Michael Jordon and theoretical chemist Martin Head-Gordon have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
