Literally Switching Strategies to Handle the Internet Data Flood
Turning cars into robot traffic managers
Patent awarded for DNA-targeting complex at heart of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing
New test rapidly identifies antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’
Xu, Titov receive million-dollar New Innovator awards
CZ Biohub awards $13.7 million for new collaborative health research
UC Berkeley startup accelerator gets a boost from venture fund
Five innovators join the ranks of the Bakar Fellows
Urban Resilience: Hiding in Plain Sight
CRISPR-EZ: Improving on a Good Thing
Ramping up Production of Vital Industrial Products
Medical Exams: There’s an App for That
Smart Materials: Getting the Sun to Pull Down the Shade
Mechanical Engineering To Aid Back Surgery
Haas Startup Squad connects MBA students to Skydeck
Computer Vision to Protect Patients — and Budgets
Three innovators elected to National Academy of Inventors
New robots can see into their future
Blockchain Lab receives campus-first Bitcoin donation
Doctoral student wins Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
Berkeley startup to train robots like puppets
Fed up, two UC Berkeley students launch tool to spot Twitter bots
$1.5 million ‘New Innovator’ grants to two young faculty members
Visionary Award honors three Berkeley intellects shaping the future
Student-designed medical device wins Fast Company award
UC Berkeley Sutardja Center launches new lab to take on $1 trillion meat industry
Biomedical startups featured in the New York Times
European Patent Office to grant UC a broad patent on CRISPR-Cas9
In a sample of blood, researchers probe for cancer clues
UC Berkeley, power company Enel launch innovation hub
Physiological Changes Tracked Moment to Moment
Trading in the Scalpel for a Sharper Blade
“Editing” New Metamaterials Brings Light Into Focus
New Bakar Fellows director sees Berkeley’s entrepreneurial spirit in faculty
Crowdfunding expands innovation financing to underserved regions
Green light for Berkeley: Feds move on $11 million for S.F. transit innovation
Berkeley innovators named fellows of National Academy of Inventors
In startup sweepstakes, it’s Cal vs. Stanford
$4.6 million grant to improve how automated cars, drones interact with humans
UC Berkeley launches Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence
UC Berkeley artificial intelligence (AI) expert Stuart Russell will lead a new Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, launched this week.
Study: Berkeley, UC startups vital to California’s economy
As a vital engine of California’s economy, UC Berkeley has been generating startups at an ever-faster rate in recent years and stimulating more and more companies and jobs.
Six at Berkeley receive new 30 Under 30 Award for global food crisis work
Six of 30 young people honored today by the University of California for their innovative work helping to solve the global food crisis are from the Berkeley campus.
President Obama awards National Medals to Alivisatos, Hu
President Barack Obama yesterday honored two UC Berkeley faculty members at the White House, awarding chemist Paul Alivisatos with the National Medal of Science and electrical engineer Chenming Hu with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Life with machine: Robot relationships get real
Berkeley’s renowned programs in artificial intelligence and robotics involve scores of professors in the College of Engineering. Their aim is to create machines with the intelligence to better serve and work with human beings.
Aduro Biotech helps launch new immunotherapy, vaccine effort
UC Berkeley cancer immunologists are teaming up with colleagues working on infectious disease to create a new Immunotherapeutics and Vaccine Research Initiative.
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.
Making waves: Turning ocean power into electricity
Ocean waves have vast energy potential. The Electric Power Research Institute estimates the total wave energy resource along the United States coastline at 2,640 terawatts per year. One terawatt can supply more than 93,000 typical U.S. homes with power annually.
“Deep Learning”: A Giant Step for Robots
Bakar Fellow Pieter Abbeel studies deep learning in robots. The robot BRETT (Berkeley Robot for Elimination of Tedious Tasks) has mastered a range of skills, including folding laundry, knot-tying, and basic assembly.
A New Recipe for Construction
Bakar Fellow Ronald Rael is advancing a type of 3-D printing that could add more beauty, variety and sustainability to building designs.