Looking for student groups to join at Cal? Berkeley has over 1,000 student groups looking to recruit YOU! That includes registered student organizations (RSO’s), fraternities, sororities, and student government (ASUC & GA). Find your community at Cal by going to CalLink from January 25th-27th, for Calapalooza, the LEAD Center’s virtual student involvement fair. Each student group will have its...
Design Field Notes, DES INV 95, is back for the spring semester! Please join us in welcoming this dynamic group of artists, designers, and academics in design-related fields, as they share about their work and practice. Each talk will be facilitated through Zoom, and is open to all students and the public.
Kicking off the series is Sarah Fathallah. Fathallah is a designer, researcher, and...
With the incredible growth of machine learning (ML) over recent years has come an increasing concern about whether ML systems’ objectives truly capture their human designers’ intent: the so-called “alignment problem.” Over the last five years, these questions of both ethics and safety have moved from the margins of the field to become arguably its most central concerns. The result is something of...
Craving more community? Visit the Student Union Open House from February 1st-7th. Site goes live February 1st. Have fun, win prizes, learn about our services. We’ll be holding a quiz night, craft night, and even a MarioCart tournament! Grand prize Apple Airpods or Nintendo Switch!
This lecture will deal not with the visualisation of sounds but rather the sonofication of images. What is politically at stake when an image behaves like a sound? The lecture will present ways of using sound and sonic imagination as new propositions for producing and reading images that are continuous with the omnidirectional and uncontainable way that sound propagates both throughout the space...
Design Field Notes, DES INV 95, is back for the spring semester! Please join us in welcoming this dynamic group of artists, designers, and academics in design-related fields, as they share about their work and practice. Each talk will be facilitated through Zoom, and is open to all students and the public.
The extent of the COVID-19 pandemic is still truly unknown due to the unavailability of SARS-CoV-2 tests. The development of new types of diagnostics will greatly increase the global testing capacity.
Cristina Davis works at the interface of mechanical design, data analytics, and chemistry. She designs and implements cutting-edge chemical sensor systems to solve real-world problems and enable trace chemical detection in challenging environments. Her research group is diverse and interdisciplinary in composition and in research. Researchers from engineering, chemistry, and computer science have...
Hannah Ginsborg, Ken Goldberg, and David Marno explore how the technological and social shifts of the COVID era have changed the ways in which we pay attention.
