An interview profiling Richard Karp’s career as a faculty member to Kyoto Prize winner (Japan’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize in computer science) is featured in the Berkeley Science Review, Issue 15. Also featured is an article on the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) titled, "The Sound of New Music". David Wessel, co-director of CNMAT is also a faculty member of the Par Lab, a new EECS research center opening Dec. 1, 2008.
November 20
Susan Graham has been awarded the 2009 IEEE John Von Neumann Medal for contributions to programming language design and implementation and for exemplary service to the discipline of computer science. Recipients are selected for truly outstanding contributions in computer hardware, software or systems art, scope is the processing of information and includes the subject areas of computer architecture, base technologies, systems, languages, algorithms, protocols and application domains, and overall strength of the nomination.
November 17
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincetelli has been selected to receive the 2009 IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award for pioneering innovation and leadership in electronic design automation that have enabled the design of modern electronics systems and their industrial implementation. Recipients are chosen for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields.
November 17
EECS graduate student Jike Chong has been selected to receive a Mayfield Fellowship, a year-long program at UC Berkeley that brings together grad students from Haas Business School, the College of Engineering and the School of Information Management. The program provides a broad entrepreneurship experience by combining ongoing mentoring with faculty, company executives, venture capitalists and Silicon Valley networking activities.
November 17
Chenming Hu has been selected to receive the 2009 IEEE Jun-Ichi Nishizawa Medal for technical contributions to MOS device reliability, scaling of CMOS and compact device modeling. Recipients are chosen for quality of the technical achievement, enhancement of technology, impact on the relevant technical community, impact on the profession and benefit to the society, publications and patents and the quality of the nomination.
November 17
UC Berkeley's software tools team, lead by EECS post doc Douglas Densmore, won a gold medal (only 16 of 84 teams received this distinction) in MIT's International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition on November 8-9th. They were also awarded "best software tool". The members of the team include Matthew Johnson and Nade Sritanyaratana (both bioengineering undergrads) as well as Anne Van Devender (a participant in Berkeley's SUPERB summer program).
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November 13
Connie Chang-Hasnain has been selected as one of the new National Security Science and Engineering Fellows. This is a very prestigious recognition, honoring 8 distinguished scientists and engineers in its inaugural round. Selected from over 350 applicants, the eight researchers from the first NSSEFF competition "are expected to make considerable discoveries in the core science and engineering disciplines underpinning the technology of future DoD systems".
November 10
Michael Clancy has been selected for the 2009 ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Education Community. This award honors an individual who has a long history of volunteer service to the computer science education community.
November 5
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