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Several blog posts have already been made in response to The Daily Californian’s recent piece, “Breeding the tech elite.” Generally, these responses attacked the article’s author, Libby Rainey, for drawing on and perpetuating stereotypes of “techies” as snobbish, unkempt and socially unaware. And verily, Rainey’s drawing on these stereotypes has
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Earlier this week, I found myself at a Facebook recruitment meeting in Dwinelle Hall, filing into a lecture hall with other undergraduates gathered eagerly at the prospect of working for one of the Silicon Valley’s most lucrative companies. As tech hopefuls lined up, resumes in hand, to talk with recruiters,
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For the first time in five years, a team of UC Berkeley programmers will head to Russia this summer to compete against some of the world’s best collegiate coders at an international programming contest.
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Despite UC Berkeley’s electrical engineering and computer sciences major’s status as one of the world’s most prestigious STEM programs, only 12.4 percent of students in the EECS major at UC Berkeley are female, according to the fall 2013 department census. This is representative of the larger gender disparity in the
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Your parents have probably already lectured you about always being on “the Facebook” (or, if they’re really confused, MyFace). Or you have the other extreme, and your parents literally “like” everything you post (Stop commenting on my friends’ pictures, Mom!). Well, it turns out that there actually is reason to
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Pandagrader, a project spearheaded by Professor Pieter Abeel, is a system where exams are uploaded via scanning to a login-based online system, enabling viewing and grading of exams on a personal computer.
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When students walked into their over-enrolled Computer Science 161 class on Thursday, they were shocked to encounter a set of policies that actively pressured them to drop the class.
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A reddit thread emerged Saturday regarding a cheating incident that occurred in a computer science course last semester, prompting discussion on the administrative issues that led to the incident and the consequences for the perpetrators.
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The department of Information Services and Technology (IST) is launching a new “AirBears2” wireless network today in order to upgrade the wireless user experience on campus.
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Michael Bao’s friends call him Mikey, and on the weekends, they all play Mario games on the Wii. Bao, a second-year EECS major at Cal, is known for not being particularly good at Super Mario Bros. — but when it comes to making games, Bao’s friends turn to him for
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