Computer Vision to Protect Patients — and Budgets
Alexandre Bayen and PhD student Pulkit Agrawal developed a computer vision-based system to help memory care centers monitor patient falls and to reduce them where possible.
Data Science, AI & Robotics News
NSF awards support Berkeley data science institute, national workshops
The grants recognize the campus’s leadership in data science education.
In a step toward fighting human trafficking, sex ads are linked to Bitcoin data
A UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate has developed the first automated techniques to identify adult ads tied to human trafficking rings by linking the ads to public information from Bitcoin — the primary payment method for online sex ads.
“Data for Social Good”: A New Strategy to Strengthen Citizenship
Signatures Fellow Lisa Garcia Bedolla works to help more people join in the political process, locally and nationally.
Data Science for Social Good: Giving Every Undergraduate Easy Access
A key component of Berkeley’s rich data science ecosystem is the Data Science Education Program, which offers an interdisciplinary curriculum that provides a foundation for Berkeley undergraduates of all majors to engage capably and critically with data.
A “VAST” Step Forward in Cyber Security
Signatures Innovation Fellow Vern Paxson and his team build on 20 years of experience to effectively understand and combat today’s cyber security threats.
Engineering to Restore Power to the People
Signatures Innovation Fellow Profesor Ruzena Bajcsy and postdoc Robert Matthew engineer devices to assist movement limited by stroke or other injury.
Megamovie project to crowdsource images of August solar eclipse
With only six months to go before one of the most anticipated solar eclipses in a lifetime, the University of California, Berkeley, and Google are looking for citizen scientists to document and memorialize the event in a “megamovie,” and help scientists learn about the sun in the process.
Berkeley launches RISELab, enabling computers to make intelligent real-time decisions
UC Berkeley today launched the RISELab, the successor of AMPLab, and the latest in its series of five-year intensive research labs in computer science.
UC Berkeley, Stanford study finds canvassing conversations reduce transgender prejudice
Researchers from Stanford University and UC Berkeley report in today’s edition ofScience that door-to-door canvassing by volunteers — both transgender and not — reduced voters’ prejudice against transgender people.
Three new Signatures Innovation Fellows announced
Three faculty members have been selected as 2016-17 Signatures Innovation Fellows, receiving as much as $100,000 per year each for up to two years to pursue commercially promising data science and software projects.
New app turns smartphones into worldwide seismic network
UC Berkeley scientists are releasing an Android app with the goal of creating a worldwide seismic detection network that could eventually warn users of impending jolts from nearby quakes.