Leon Chua's theory on memory resistors, nicknamed "memristor" is featured in a Nature.com news article titled, "Found: the missing circuit element". In 1971 Prof. Chua postulated the existence of memristors, essentially resistors with memory. Now, 37 years later, researchers at HP Labs in Palo Alto have created a memristor circuit that could revolutionize computing.
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May 1
Ruzena Bajcsy has been elected to the American Academy of Arts &
Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies
and independent policy research centers. The Academy honors excellence by electing to membership remarkable men and women who have made preeminent contributions to their fields, and to the world.
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April 28
EECS alumna Valerie Taylor, Ph.D. '91 has been elected to the board of the Computing Research Association. Currently she is Professor and head of the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. Her research interests are in high performance computing, with particular emphasis on the performance analysis and modeling of parallel and distributed applications.
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April 25
The latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report, "America's Best Graduate Schools 2009" have placed our Computer Science program at #1, tied with Stanford and MIT. Our Electrical Engineering program was #2, tied with Stanford. MIT came in first in this category. In Subareas (Theory and Systems), we came in first and our Programming Languages ranked #2 (behind CMU). Our undergraduate Electrical Engineering program has been ranked #2.
UC Berkeley's graduate and undergraduate Engineering program overall ranked #3 (behind MIT and Stanford).
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April 17
David Wagner led a California-commissioned study last year of the three major electronic voting systems. The findings of this study were featured in several news articles about the serious vulnerabilities in each system that would allow someone with access to just one of the machines to spread a virus that would infect all the other machines in the system and essentially control the outcome.
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PC World
April 10
Kam Lau has been selected to receive the 2008 Nick Holonyak Award from the Optical Society of America "for seminal contributions to high-speed direct modulation of semiconductor lasers through enhanced differential optical gain."
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March 31
Christos Papadimitriou has been awarded the 2008 Katayanagi Prize for Research Excellence (formerly known as the Katayanagi Senior Prize in Computer Science). The prize is "awarded annually to an established researcher with a record of outstanding and sustained achievement". The prize carries a $20,000 honorarium.
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March 26
Pravin Variaya has been selected to receive the prestigious 2008 AACC (American Automatic Control Council) Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award. The Bellman Award is given for distinguished career contributions to the theory or application of automatic control. It is the highest recognition of professional achievement for U.S. control systems engineers and scientists.
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March 25
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