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- So an EECS prof and an undergrad walk into a computer lab
Beneath its jokey exterior, Jester 4.0 is serious research, a recommender system that employs complex mathematics to match users with others of similar tastes and preferences. Someday soon, Eigentaste 5.0 the sophisticated algorithm on which it's based could even help Chuck Norris find a portfolio of charities to support. Published: 13 February - Three faculty elected to National Academy of Engineering
Three UC Berkeley faculty are among 65 new members elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Membership in the academy is considered one of the highest professional distinctions accorded an American engineer. Published: 12 February - Joint Nokia research project to capture traffic data using GPS-enabled cell phones
Researchers from UC Berkeley and Nokia are testing technology that could soon transform the way drivers navigate through congested highways. In the unprecedented field experiment, transportation researchers tested the feasibility of using GPS-enabled mobile phones to monitor real-time traffic flow while preserving the privacy of the phones users. Published: 08 February - Tracking gliding behavior in the "flying" lemur
Among the gliding animals, the colugo or "flying" lemur of Southeast Asia is the champ. It's able to glide the length of two football fields with its doormat-sized skin flaps. UC Berkeley researchers are strapping backpacks to these animals to find out how they do it. Published: 07 February - Engineers create new adhesive that mimics gecko toe hairs
A new anti-sliding adhesive developed by UC Berkeley engineers may be the closest man-made material yet to mimic the remarkable gecko toe hairs that allow the tiny lizard to scamper along vertical surfaces and ceilings. The researchers say that such an adhesive could one day be used to outfit a small robot that could climb up walls. Published: 29 January - Frances Allen: A pioneer in high-performance computing
The explorer, adventurer, and renowned computer scientist will be on campus to deliver a Regents Lecture, The Challenge of the Multi-Cores: Think Sequential, Run Parallel, at 4 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31, in Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center. The Berkeleyan caught up with her last week for a conversation. Published: 23 January - Antoni K. Oppenheim, world expert on combustion and heat transfer, dies at 92
Antoni Kazimierz Oppenheim, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of mechanical engineering and one of the world's leading experts on combustion and radiation heat transfer, died Saturday, Jan. 12, at the age of 92. Published: 22 January - Obituary
Paul Plouffe, a longtime lecturer for chemical engineerings undergraduate writing program, has died. He was 68. Published: 16 January - SETI@home looking for more volunteers
The longest-running search for radio signals from alien civilizations is getting a burst of new data from an upgraded Arecibo telescope, which means the SETI@home project needs more desktop computers to help crunch the data. Published: 02 January - New biochip could replace animal testing
The drug industry, the cosmetic industry and the chemical industry in general generate scads of new products each year, and each must be tested for human toxicity. Since animal testing of some products, like cosmetics, will soon be banned, a rapid and inexpensive way to test new chemicals for toxicity is needed. Enter the DataChip and MetaChip, two quarter-sized biochips developed by chemical engineers at UC Berkeley and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Published: 18 December - THEMIS probes view auroral substorms, bowshock explosions
As the five THEMIS probes approach an optimal lineup for studying magnetic substorms that tickle the Northern Lights, they already have revealed new information about how solar energy leaks into the Earth's magnetosphere and about explosions generated at the magnetosphere's bowshock. Published: 11 December - Early warning system predicted shaking from Oct. 30 quake
An earthquake early warning system now being testing throughout the state correctly predicted ground shaking in San Francisco from October's 5.4 magnitude Alum Rock quake a few seconds before the ground started moving. Published: 10 December - Fin whales' big gulp
When it comes to big gulps, baleen whales take the prize. Scientists have measured the volume of water engulfed when fin whales lunge after prey, and calculate it to be about the size of a bus. Published: 27 November - New technique captures chemical reactions in a single living cell for the first time
A team of UC Berkeley bioengineers have developed a technique that for the first time enables the detection of chemical signals from biomolecules in a single living cell with unprecedented resolution. By coupling metallic nanoparticles with biomolecules, researchers can obtain information critical to cell-based drug discovery, early disease detection and biomedical diagnostics. Published: 19 November - Its no page-turner, but . . .
The Disabled Students' Program's Assistive Technology Center matches students who are blind, visually impaired, physically limited, or learning-disabled with the software and hardware they need to make their careers at Berkeley less fraught and more successful. Published: 14 November
