How the Fire Research Group at UC Berkeley is tackling the problem of intensifying fires through interdisciplinary cooperationOn the problem of wildfires on the West Coast, how COVID-19 is complicating fire response, the interdisciplinary nature of fir…
Category: research
research
UC Berkeley team partners in new $20M AI food systems research center
On August 26, 2020, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced it will be funding a new food systems research center in partnership with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The award o…
MLSys 2020: Experiencing cutting edge research in machine learning and systems
By Yifan Bai, MEng ’20 (EECS)The Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys) is an annual conference targeting research in systems and machine learning (ML). This year it was held in Austin, Texas. I was honored to have an opportunity to attend …
Government-funded research increasingly fuels innovation
A quantitative analysis shows that almost a third of patents in the U.S. rely on federal research funding6/20/2019, by Linda VuTotal granted U.S. patents by U.S. inventors (blue bars), and subtotal that rely on federal research (orange bars) and patent…
Facebook Area 404 visit — organized by Jacobs Design Institute
Facebook Area 404 visit — organized by Jacobs Design InstituteBy Clara LimReception of Area 404, where we exchanged for passes before starting the tourIt’s another day at Building 17 of Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters. From the outside, it looks lik…
