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Tag: EECS
Big NSF grant funds research into training robots to work with humans
December 17, 2012:
What if robots and humans, working together, were able to perform tasks in surgery and manufacturing that neither can do alone? That’s the question driving new cloud robotics research by UC Berkeley professors Ken Goldberg and Pieter Abbeel and colleagues from four other universities, who were awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Preventive medicine for pipelines
May 21, 2012:
A pipeline-monitoring system using MRI technology could warn of dangerous wear before explosions occur. The innovation was developed by Professor Emeritus Jerome Singer and two College of Engineering alums.
Micro/Nanofabrication Lab mourns one of its own
March 22, 2012:
BERKELEY — Colleagues of the late Gee-Minn (Jimmy) Chang, an engineer at UC Berkeley’s Marvell Nanolab, formerly Berkeley Microlab, wrote this obituary to honor his contributions to the lab, to the campus and to the many students he mentored. R. I. P. Gee-Minn (Jimmy) Chang, 1956-2012 Gee-Minn (Jimmy) Chang died of a heart attack suddenly on March 6. He was [...]
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.
Charles Desoer, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences, dies
November 4, 2010:
Charles A. Desoer, a professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the UC Berkeley, died Monday at age 84.
