February 23, 2012, Berkeley, CA – At the Berkeley Engineering research conference (BEARS2012) there was a breakout session from the BWRC group on the advances and long term directions in wireless communications and networking. The breakout was led by Ken Lutz, the Director of the center followed by a presentation by Prof. Jan Rabaey which [...]

 February 23, 2012, Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium, UC Berkeley—Michael Jordan described the emerging challenges of computing and tracking big data. This field is ripe with opportunity and peril. Big data offers the ability to greatly increase personalization, to get completely targeted content just for you. One problem is to eliminate false positive selections in [...]

 February 23, 2012, Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium, UC Berkeley—David Wagner described the research to secure computers for the users’ benefit. Security is hard, just look at the hack of the Google Gmail server by Chinese operatives. Other companies have experienced breaches but haven’t disclosed the event. Many hacks are possible because of weaknesses in [...]

 February 23, 2012, Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium, UC Berkeley—Claire Tomlin described the applications of control theory to the manipulations of big data. These new functions require changes not only in the algorithms for larger scale, but also the nature of the data sets themselves. Combining the structures of big data with control theory allows [...]