EECS News Fall 2001

Professor Pravin Varaiya has won the Control Heritage Award for 2001, IEEE Field Award for the Control Systems Society for his contributions to "stochastic control and differential games" and applications to "intelligent transportation systems."
December 4, 2001

Professor Christos Papadimitriou has been elected as an ACM Fellow for "outstandingly novel and fundamental contributions to computer science and especially to complexity theory, database theory and combinatorial optimization."
November 29, 2001

Professors Alan Smith and Elwyn Berlekamp have been elected fellows by the American Association for the Advancement in Science. Dr. Smith was honored for "distinguished contributions to the performance analysis of computer systems, particularly the design of memory hierarchies and cache memory design." Dr. Berlekamp was distinguished for "contributions to algebraic coding theory and mathmatical theory of combinatorial games."
November 26, 2001

James Demmel and Avideh Zahkor, EECS Professors, recognized as IEEE Fellows
November 19, 2001

Berkeley places in ACM Pacific Northwest Regionals
November 14, 2001

Intel Opens Berkeley Research Lab Oakland Tribune
Nov. 13, 2001

Professor's Culler's Intel Lablet Opening Cermony held Friday
Nov. 9, 2001

UC Berkeley Joins Virtual Development Center becomes eighth university site in innovative IWT program
IWT Press Release, Nov. 6, 2001

EDA Consortium Honors Industry Pioneer, Educator and Researcher Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli with the 2001 Kaufman Award
EDA Consortium Press Release, Nov. 5, 2001

VERTEX Design Contest Kick-Off, Sastry speaks at Engineering Club, Jump-Starts First UC Berkeley Technology Design Competition!
Daily Californian, Nov. 6, 2001

Assistant Professor Specializes in Helping Disabled
Oakland Tribune, Oct. 28, 2001