Innovations Home Innovations Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2008 Archive
Dean’s MessageBest of Both WorldsAs someone who came to Berkeley 30 years ago as an international student, I was pleased to see that international enrollments are up significantly for the first time since the post-September 11 backlash cast a chill over immigrant-friendly policies at U.S. colleges and universities. Upcoming Events Want to enhance your career potential as a design engineer? The College of Engineering is offering a series of premier digital format and online certificate courses in integrated circuit design and computer architecture. These full semester and short courses feature our world-renowned EECS faculty. Space is limited so enroll now. Classes begin January 22, 2008. Read more at: http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/calview/ and https://globe.berkeley.edu/login/. January 31, 2008 Regents' Lecture: Fran Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita and the first female recipient of the Turing Award, will speak on "The Challenge of the Multi Cores: Think Sequential, Run Parallel." February 21, 2008 Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium: EECS faculty answer your questions about the future of technology.
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In This Issue:
As the biotech industry has grown, Professors Lee Schruben, Rob Leachman and Phil Kaminsky of Berkeley’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) have watched the young field bring lifesaving new drugs to market. They have also seen that their potential benefit to society isn’t always realized when these drugs are priced out of reach or when stocks run short. Recognizing that some good IEOR principles could address these problems, they organized the first NSF symposium on Biomanufacturing and Logistics Systems in 2006.
In remote villages along Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, the seemingly simple act of switching on a light is anything but simple. It’s usually impossible. Mathias Craig (B.S.’01 CEE) wants to change that. Craig, 29, is cofounder of blueEnergy, a nonprofit organization that is harnessing the power of the wind to illuminate homes, schools and rural clinics in an impoverished region where nearly 80 percent of the population have no electricity. Since 2004, blueEnergy has brought wind turbines to six Nicaraguan communities, providing electricity to some 1,500 people.
EECS undergraduate Henry Wang had never heard of Enrico Caruso until last year. That's a surprising admission given that the 21-year-old senior now spends hours weekly scrutinizing the famed tenor's rendition of La Donna è Mobile. Wang is part of an ambitious project that seeks to preserve historic collections of music, speeches and other audio recordings dating back to the earliest days of recorded sound.
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