UC Berkeley alumnus Eric Schmidt, current executive chairman and former chief executive officer of Google, will be the keynote speaker at the May 12 commencement ceremony this year.
Schmidt was chosen from a list of candidates through a survey distributed to the graduating senior class by The Californians, the student organization responsible for coordinating the ceremony. The class’s vote was then approved by Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s office.
“UC Berkeley has one of the best computer science departments in the world, and it is exciting to see the University honor this by choosing such a prominent member in computer science as our commencement speaker,” said Jacob Newman, external vice president of the Computer Science Undergraduate Association, in an email.
Schmidt — who received his master’s degree and doctorate in computer science from the campus and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University — sits on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and “helped grow (Google) from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology,” according to his profile on the company’s website.
Schmidt joined Google in 2001 and served as the company’s chief executive officer for 10 years. Now, as executive chairman, he provides business and policy advice to the chief executive officer and senior leadership in addition to overseeing the company’s relationship with the government and other corporations.
Paul Jacobs, chief executive officer of Qualcomm, spoke at last year’s commencement ceremony. However, prominent figures have been dissuaded from speaking in previous years due to protests by unions representing campus service and technical workers.
Two scheduled speakers declined to speak at the campus’s 2010 commencement because of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 and University Professional and Technical Employees Local 1 boycott of graduation speeches on nine of the 10 UC campuses.
“In the past we haven’t been able to get big name speakers,” said Lila Blanco, associate director of university events and ceremonies, in a 2009 interview with The Daily Californian. “Each time we would ask a politician to come, we would ask if they would cross the picket lines, but they said, ‘absolutely not.’”
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On 2012/02/21 StanfordDaily article “virtual-learning” in Comments part regards to a murder case about a Stanford student May Zhou with which Eric Schmidt had threatened my life: ====================
@concernedNetCitizen,
About your ARROGANT question “If you think you have evidence (and i mean physical evidence) to the contrary why do you not take it to the police, or at least post what evidence you have (and I mean PHYSICAL evidence like fibres, DNA, fingerprints and the like).”
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I am not physically in America, so I’d rather communicate with the police officer who’s respnosible for May Zhou’s case via email to tell serious stuff, my contact [[email protected]] , or we could discuss it right here on this board. Before the officer who’s responsible would contact me for a serious discussion, how could you know there is no such PHYSICAL evidence to say May Zhou’s death is definitely
a murder but not a suicide? As a matter of fact, such PHYSICAL evidence already exists and that’s what I am going to tell.
The point at this time is, who is this officer who’s respnosible for May Zhou’s case, whom I should talk to? Could you have me connect with this officer? I have serious stuff to report
Meanwhile, why don’t you help us to figure out what’s the motivation behind May Zhou’s death
Censorship on my comments would only make people more curious of what’s going on, and people would believe in what I said more.
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Truly admire the name of Berkeley. No intention of offending people of Berkeley, but what I am going to tell is tough to hear but real happenings. We need attention from the whole society to concur such anti-humanity crimes and I bet people of Cal would not advertize a fascism criminal who had endangered human lives either:
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Eric, we know your name has a huge impact on human society, but how could you stand for your fame without completely clarifiying those accusations listed here? Can you deny any one of them?
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Eric Schmidt had threatened my life with the death of Stanford student May Zhou during his fight with
Stanford. Eric Schmidt is part of this plot in May Zhou’s death. He had also conspired my life at a
later time, and which had cost his Google CEO position.
It started from a 2004 Stanford campus assault case, in which a lady named Gabriele Scheler bitterly assaulted me; Police concluded that I am a victim while Scheler is a criminal suspect after serious investigation; However Sebastian Thrun later joined Scheler to false accuse me at Stanford, and Eric Schmidt had joined them to support Sebastian Thrun and Gabriele Scheler against ruling from Stanford and police. During their tough fight with Stanford in the early 2007, Eric Schmidt and Sebasitan Thrun’s side had murderred May Zhou to threaten me, by telling me: “You see May Zhou, she’s an Asian (me too an Asian), … Police might not even find out who did it, what if it happened to you?” , and to terrorize Stanford (because May Zhou is Stanford student), and they did plot a murder on me as well last year when they found I would not compromise but insist on clarifying their crimes
These accusations had been confirmed by authorities investigation and stand still which Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun dare not deny to the public so far. Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun had not paid for their crimes
Eric Schmidt: Here is my reply to you in September, 2011; Remember, the more you seem busted, the more grounds you are losing. calm down
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Eric Schmidt on Sep 2, 4:02 AM said On BusinessInsider: @Peter Cao: “Peter. It’s me, Eric. I thought we already talked about this. I am going to squash you like a bug if you keep posting on this comment board. What you don’t know (but surely suspected) is that the video cameras I installed in your house are allowing me to track everything you do. In fact, I am live streaming your pathetic life, including all the insane searches you do about my home address and love interests, to all my friends on the Stanford faculty. Next I will bring in my mafia-like dark killing power to bear. ”
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Eric, be you real or not Schmidt, so finally, your psychological defense was broken, now that your mind became insane.
Didn’t I defeat you globally wherever you go? You still don’t understand, that’s because your deeds, killing the innocent and threatening the victim, would not be tolerated anywhere on this planet. Anyone would be alerted of this case when you assisted a Stanford Computer Science faculty Sebastian Thrun to counter Stanford ruling against him and to threatening me from fighting against your crimes, by threatening me with the real murder case of Stanford student May Zhou; in fact, police investigation had confirmed it is people on you (Schmidt) and Thrun’s side who murdered May Zhou, before I would post the case on the web. Quite a scandal unheard of in history of college education.
I clearly aware your side is closely watching me though I am a powerless victim on the other side of the earth, because you fear me of my speech to the public about your crimes, crimes you dare not deny, but would drive you insane as you are now. I never search your address or personal issues, other than posting your deeds on the web, this time you are really irritated and finally displayed the evil you to the public.
Have some manners please. That’s not going to save you of your fate as a loser … You still have to explain to the public of your crimes behind May Zhou’s case and plotted murder on me, which got you removed from your CEO position, and so You still have to face the legal conseqences.
This is actually a war between fascism and anti-fascism. At this stage, fascism still prevail in our lives. Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun are just two forefront people we can see in this fascism circle. There is a whole pack of fascists behind them to cover up their crimes.
Anyway, Eric Schmidt and Sebastian Thrun’s names are not clear in Stanford Student May Zhou’s death, nor in their conspiracies on my life last year; and neither Eric Schmidt nor Sebastian Thrun dare deny their involvment into such crimes to the public. But without clarification of this case, the criminal suspect side had committed more and more retaliatory crimes on victims. Can anyone deny this fact?
What’s the problem? I bet that’s because they are afraid of facing the legal consequences once they deny these accusations to the public. That is the point.
Time to clarify these anti-humanity crimes to the public and have those criminals concurred at authorities and get them pay for their crimes
Censorship on my comments would only make people more curious of what’s going on, and people would believe in what I said more.
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Truly admire the name of Berkeley. No intention of offending people of Berkeley, but what I am going to tell is tough to hear but real happenings. We need attention from the whole society to concur such anti-humanity crimes and I bet people of Cal would not advertize a fascism criminal who had endangered human lives either
Censorship on my comments would only make people more curious of what’s going on, and people would believe in what I said more.
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Truly admire the name of Berkeley. No intention of offending people of Berkeley, but what I am going to tell is tough to hear but real happenings. We need attention from the whole society to concur such anti-humanity crimes and I bet people of Cal would not advertize a fascism criminal who had endangered human lives either
Censorship on my comments would only make people more curious of what’s going on, and people would believe in what I said more.
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Truly admire the name of Berkeley. No intention of offending people of Berkeley, but what I am going to tell is tough to hear but real happenings. We need attention from the whole society to concur such anti-humanity crimes and I bet people of Cal would not advertize a fascism criminal who had endangered human lives either
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more reasons you should NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/why-do-innocent-people-confess.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print
False confessions have figured in 24 percent of the approximately 289 convictions reversed by DNA evidence, according to the Innocence Project. Considering that DNA is available in just a fraction of all crimes, a much larger universe of erroneous convictions surely exists. If nearly a quarter of overturned convictions involves a false confession, police interrogations are creating an epidemic of injustice.
Local politicians seem to want to blame the occupy movement for everything messed up within their city like the u.s. blames iran for everything messed up in the middle east.nice try but will not fly.
In other words, the student lives in Oakland and illegally attends BHS. Most of the problems at BHS are caused by non resident gangbanger students from Oakland and Richmond, but the PC apparatchiks won’t actually investigate their residency, for fear of appearing biases against African Americans.
“There is currently no known motive and no suspects have been arrested, according to the Tribune.”
No details at about the suspect, none, nada, nothing, zip, zilch, zero.
Of course that doesn’t stop you from trolling.
Pathetic Troll is Pathetic.