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UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry established a new lectureship for research from traditionally underrepresented scholars in honor of campus graduate professor William Lester.
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UC Berkeley received a $25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a multiuniversity initiative aiming to develop and understand quantum computing.
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Attendees of the fourth annual Women in Tech Symposium gathered at the Bechtel Engineering Center to celebrate women in technology and discuss the future of cybersecurity.
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Sporting a silver jacket and shoes as futuristic as the subject matter of his discussion, Hartmut Neven came to UC Berkeley on Tuesday evening to present the quantum computing research he has pioneered as founder and manager of Google’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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Bob Sayles, a UC Berkeley alumnus who helped lead the restoration of the campus’s Bowles Hall residential unit, died May 14 after a brief illness, according to a campus press release. Sayles was 85.
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A Cal Hacks 3.0 team outfitted a Tesla to be driven with mind control technology during the annual campus hackathon in November.
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Last week, three UC Berkeley students traveled to Ekaterinburg, Russia, to compete in an annual international programming contest.
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Three years ago, the IBM computer Watson showcased the power of artificial intelligence when it defeated two human contestants in a game of Jeopardy! — sifting through 200 million files at the dazzling speed of 80 trillion operations a second.
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There’s one question every technophile seems to get from his or her friend: Which laptop should I get for college? That’s not really an easy question, though, because there are so many different answers. It’s like assuming that we should all drive one model of car or wear one brand
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