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The six selected programs will use information technology to address challenges in various sectors, including aviation, climate resilience and sustainability, digital health, and semiconductors and systems.
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UC Berkeley study finds that vertebrates vary widely in the number of retinal cell types in the eye, but most cell types seem to have a common origin.
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The UC Noyce Initiative pursues collaborative research by building community and providing financial funding for cross-campus research projects in digital innovation.
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UC Berkeley engineering professors Ashok Gadgil and Boris Rubinsky are named 2023 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.
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An experiment in the Sierra Nevada confirms that different forest management techniques are effective at reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfire in California.
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The nation's top particle physicists issued its final report recommending future research too focus on neutrinos, dark matter and the cosmic microwave background.
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UC Berkeley graduate student argues that phenomena called "Steve" and "picket fence" are masquerading as auroras in the night sky.
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Formaldehyde is used by the body to regulate epigenetic change, and it may suppress the body's attempts to prevent the expression or overexpression of certain genes.
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Experts at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco have begun working to improve the treatment of diabetes and metabolic health using a first-of-its-kind open-source platform with broad societal benefits.
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UC Berkeley policy analyst from the Othering and Belonging Institute shares recommendations to protect people displaced from the climate crisis.
CITRIS Foundry welcomes 5 teams to fall 2023 incubator cohort
These teams are working to address significant societal challenges, including diagnosing and treating serious diseases and navigating an increasingly difficult rental housing market.
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Armando Fox and Dan Garcia, professors of electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS), are behind UC Berkeley’s pilot run, an endeavor they’ve dubbed “A’s for All (as Time and Interest Allow).”
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In fields from computer science and journalism to public policy and national security, scholars are working to advance online information integrity.
Anca Dragan describing her research during the CITRIS Research Exchange
UC Berkeley professor highlights how lessons learned in robotics concerning the importance of training and positive and negative reinforcement can apply to other virtual agents like large language models.
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The effort also results in an ultra-high resolution that is over 50 times more detail than current 3T scanners typically used in hospitals.
UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid stands at the front of a classroom, gesturing at equations projected onto a large screen
UC Berkeley professor, one of the world’s leading experts on digital forensics and human perception, talks about the storm of digital disinformation so powerful that it’s putting lives, and democracy, at risk.