Ernest Kuh, former dean of UC Berkeley College of Engineering, dies at 86
Ernest Kuh, professor emeritus and dean of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering from 1973-80, died June 27. He was 86.
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UC Berkeley, Stanford researchers develop perspiration-based sensor system
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and Stanford University has created a perspiration-based sensor system that can provide information about the body.
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Increased CS course demand leads to overflowing auditorium
Many students filed into Wheeler Auditorium for their Friday afternoon computer science class expecting to find a seat —they just didn’t expect that seat to be the floor.
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Berkeley acronyms
Below are commonly used acronyms at UC Berkeley. GBC — Golden Bear Cafe VLSB — Valley Life Sciences Building FSM — Free Speech Movement (Cafe) CKC — Clark Kerr Campus EECS (pronounced EEKS!) — Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences SLC — Student Learning Center GSI — Graduate Student Instructor CARS
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College of Letters and Science to implement computer science GPA requirement
Following a record number of applications this spring, the computer science major in the College of Letters & Science will institute a GPA requirement, to take effect in either spring or fall 2014.
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Campus researchers advance robot-assisted surgery
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
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Berkeley professor named among world’s top innovators
Pieter Abbeel, a UC Berkeley assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences known for programming robots to learn basic household tasks like folding towels and pairing socks, has been named on a list of the world’s top young innovators published in Technology Review Tuesday. Abbeel, along with 34
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