In 2001 when Fernando Pérez was still a graduate student in particle physics, he kept bumping into walls with a popular programming language he was using called Python, as he tried to analyze an elusive theoretical phenomenon known as the quantum vacuum.
UC Berkeley artificial intelligence (AI) expert Stuart Russell will lead a new Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, launched this week.
Introducing this year’s top innovators under 35, a list compiled each year by MIT Technology Review.
California voters oppose an effort to abolish the death penalty and strongly support a competing measure that would streamline procedures in capital cases.
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.
California voters overwhelmingly support a sweeping gun control measure on the November ballot, including strong majorities of both parties and independent voters.
Search-and-rescue dogs are prized for their ability to sniff out a hiker buried in deep snow. But how exactly do their noses work?
What’s life like aboard a scientific research vessel plying the California coast deploying robots to unlock important data about climate change?
