http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 21 May 2013 23:24:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/16/from-geeky-to-cool-statistics-is-berkeleys-fastest-growing-major/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/16/from-geeky-to-cool-statistics-is-berkeleys-fastest-growing-major/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:27:43 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34068 Being a statistician has gone from geeky to cool at UC Berkeley, where statistics has jumped to the top of the list of fastest-growing majors. In just the last four years, the number of majors has increased by 289 percent, and the trend shows no sign of reversing.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/16/from-geeky-to-cool-statistics-is-berkeleys-fastest-growing-major/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/17/ken-goldbergs-latest-big-adventure-cloud-robotics/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/17/ken-goldbergs-latest-big-adventure-cloud-robotics/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:12:57 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33297 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/17/ken-goldbergs-latest-big-adventure-cloud-robotics/feed/ 0 http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol6-issue4-may12/pipeline http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol6-issue4-may12/pipeline#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 22:08:36 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=30930 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.]]> http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol6-issue4-may12/pipeline/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/03/22/27265/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/03/22/27265/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:32:39 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27265 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 [...]]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/03/22/27265/feed/ 0 http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol5-issue7-sept11/mobilesearch http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol5-issue7-sept11/mobilesearch#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:26:19 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=16609 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.]]> http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol5-issue7-sept11/mobilesearch/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/04/desoer/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/04/desoer/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:21:39 +0000 Karen Rhodes http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1175 Charles A. Desoer, a professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the UC Berkeley, died Monday at age 84. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/04/desoer/feed/ 0