As a special feature for the Technology and Ideas Issue, the Daily Cal interviewed Eliot Sun (founder and CEO) and Timothy Liu (founder) of Kloudless, an online storage service. “Kloudless” aims to move all email attachments to cloud hosting services. The founders’ goal, according to their website is to free Read More…
The robot can’t walk. It can’t talk or clean your living room, but it might one day save your life. A team of faculty and students at UC Berkeley are attempting to transform the way surgery is performed by inviting robots into the operating room and allowing surgeons to hand Read More…
Brittany Judoprasetijo is accustomed being one of only a handful of women sprinkled across male-dominated engineering classes. “Usually, it doesn’t bother me,” said Judoprasetijo, a UC Berkeley senior majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. “Of course, it does get kind of lonely.” Judoprasetijo is one of many students in Read More…
On the night of Mothership HackerMoms’ Halloween party, the entrance to the hackerspace on Adeline Street is blocked by a handmade wooden gate. A repurposed shipping pallet, complete with added hinges and metal pull-handles, serves as a barrier to stop the half-dozen young children there to participate in Halloween crafts Read More…
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As hundreds of students walked out in the rain last Thursday to call for rolling back tuition, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau told CBS News that more tuition hikes are inevitable despite increased taxes on the rich from Proposition 30. New tuition hikes would be outrageous, considering that the university has raised Read More…
UC Berkeley’s next chancellor is tasked with navigating the campus through a particularly tumultuous and precarious moment in its history. Though the passage of Proposition 30 offers some respite, as the University of California no longer faces a midyear budget cut, it is only a glimmer of hope on an Read More…
When UC Berkeley recently wrapped up a private fundraising challenge two years ahead of schedule, the campus proved how vital alternate funding sources are for a strong academic environment. And though concerns about privatization are warranted to a certain extent, it is encouraging to see substantial sums of private money Read More…
Proposition 30, approved by California voters last Tuesday, has allowed the state’s educational systems to duck a bullet: We’ve avoided massive trigger cuts and other revenue losses that would have been imposed had the proposition not been approved. The proposition’s temporary increases in sales taxes and top-bracket income taxes will Read More…