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Startup expo attracts entrepreneurs, features forum and competition

A startup expo Thursday featured more than two dozen companies, a speaker panel and a pitch competition. The event was organized by the campus business fraternity Alpha Epsilon Zeta.
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A startup expo Thursday featured more than two dozen companies, a speaker panel and a pitch competition. The event was organized by the campus business fraternity Alpha Epsilon Zeta.

Over 300 ambitious young entrepreneurs and seasoned businessmen alike gathered at Innovate@Berkeley at Hotel Shattuck on Thursday, a promotional event that showcased some of the best of Berkeley’s startups and featured a prominent panel of speakers. Read More…

Campus

ASUC President Connor Landgraf (right) and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of a campus ‘hackerspace.’

New hackerspace opens in Cory Hall

Texas Instruments partnered with UC Berkeley to open the Texas Instruments Electronics Design Lab on the first and second floors of Cory Hall. The “hackerspace” is open to all students but is dedicated to electrical engineering and computer science majors.
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Tech & Ideas

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Five Questions: Marti Hearst, ‘Big Data’ pioneer

With a massive amount of data online, computer programmers have recently taken to looking for ways to manage it all. Marti Hearst, a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information, has been at the forefront of research on working with “Big Data” to make it searchable and accessible. Her Read More…