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PalmOne Case Study: UC Berkeley School Of Education
White Papers The UC Berkeley School of Education wanted to help K-12 students grasp the complex scientific concepts through the integration of Palm handhelds and the WISE (Web based Inquiry Science Environment) project.
[April 18, 2004, 1:04]
Podcast-Ready Network Prepares UC Berkeley For Next-Generation Campus
White Papers University of California, wanted to prepare the campus for next-generation, multimedia learning and expand reach to enable public access to classroom content. The challenge was to ensure campus network will accommodate increased demand.
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
The HCI Emphasis At UC Berkeley's SIMS
White Papers HCI education at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley is focused primarily in the masters program. This is a professional masters degree, akin to those awarded to MBAs, as opposed to a research...
[April 21, 2006, 1:01]
Universities Win Funding To Model Cyberterrorism
News One of the challenges of creating effective defence programs for attacks from viruses and worms is that they are only tested in moderate-sized private research facilities or through computer simulations that are not representative of the way the...
[October 16, 2003, 12:00]
Gnutella Pioneer Gene Kan Dies
News A memorial fund is being set up in Kan's name at UC Berkeley. Checks should be made out to "UC Regents" but clearly marked for the Gene Kan fund. Kan graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997, with degrees in electrical...
[July 9, 2002, 8:28]
Gates' Foundation To Fund Synthetic Biology
News Jay Keasling, a UC Berkeley professor and a pioneer in the synthetic-biology field, says these techniques can also be used in toxic cleanup or to neutralise poisons such as sarin. For this project, UC Berkeley is issuing royalty-free licences on...
[December 14, 2004, 8:05]
Academic Elected To OASIS Board
News Before teaching at UC Berkeley, Glushko co-founded Passage Systems, in 1992, and Veo Systems in 1997. The members of OASIS elected University of California at Berkeley adjunct professor Robert Glushko to the group's board of directors.
[February 23, 2005, 11:00]
University Reports Data Hack
Talkback In California, there is the more prestigious University of California system, comprising UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside UC Merced and UC San Franciso (health...
[April 26, 2005, 14:03]
Researchers To Build Peer-to-peer Storage Monsters
News This week, in fact, the lead developer of Microsoft Farsite is attending a Lake Tahoe research retreat sponsored by UC Berkeley computer science students working on OceanStore. The University of California at Berkeley -- with backing from the...
[January 10, 2001, 8:26]
Knowledge Experiences Exponential Growth
News That, said researchers at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems, amounts to the print collections of the Library of Congress -- 500,000 times over. The UC researchers estimated that stored information had doubled since its last...
[October 29, 2003, 9:00]
Intel And Universities Team To Create Super-Internet
News Our goal is to provide a playing field for people to try their ideas on," said Dave Culler, a UC Berkeley professor and manager of Intel's research "lablet" associated with the university. Intel, Princeton University, the University of California...
[June 24, 2003, 7:32]
Wireless Could Be Bridge To Digital Divide
News Newton was among the many scholars, public officials and business leaders participating in the "Bridging the Divide" conference organised by UC Berkeley's Management of Technology Program along with the United Nations Industrial Development...
[April 5, 2004, 13:15]
Nanotube Breakthrough Paves Path For Carbon Chips
News Growing them directly on silicon has been proposed as a solution, but this is the first project in which researchers accomplished that, according to scientists at Stanford and UC Berkeley. Researchers at Stanford University and the University of...
[January 8, 2004, 7:50]
Funding Crisis Threatens SETI@home
News If there are philanthropists who think the project is worthwhile, I would, on behalf of SETI Australia and UC Berkeley, gratefully receive it," he said. The revelation comes at a time when there are indications that relations between SETI@home...
[October 15, 2002, 9:07]
Intel Dives Into Pervasive Computing
News David Culler, a professor at UC Berkeley, said there is still a lot to learn. A branch for studying "extremely" networked systems, or networks containing numerous nodes that stretch over small and large geographic areas, has just started at the...
[August 28, 2001, 9:19]
W3C Applauds Microsoft 'reprieve'
News That browser was written by Wei in 1993, a year before the filling date of the UC patent, when he was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. Microsoft said that, on the contrary, the company had won on the most important points...
[March 3, 2005, 7:15]
Why Migration Doesn't Mean Brain Drain
News Saxenian joined the School of Information Management at UC Berkeley as a professor in 1995, shortly after the specialty school was created as one of the first in the country to combine library and computer sciences.
[September 8, 2006, 12:55]
Spintronics To Save Moore's Law?
News Scientific and technical work will also be dispersed over the campuses of Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara. Stanford University and three other California schools have formed a joint effort to advance research...
[March 10, 2006, 9:10]
Sun Has Betrayed Us All
Talkback This completely ignores the fact that Sun is the second largest contributor to the Open Source community after UC Berkeley. Firstly, we'd like to express our extreme disappointment with your decision to publish such a thoroughly slanted article...
[October 12, 2004, 3:12]
Terabyte Hard Drives Are Ready
News As a reference, the print collection in the Library of Congress comes to about 10TB of information, according to the How Much Information study from UC Berkeley. Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would...
[January 5, 2007, 7:44]
