Archive for August 2017
Prof. Leachman to be keynote speaker at International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE 47)
IEOR Professor Robert C. Leachman will be a keynote speaker at the 47th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (“CIE 47”), held in Lisbon, Portugal, October 11-13, 2017. Rob will be delivering a lecture entitled “The Engineering of Speed.” For details, see http://www.cie47.com/
Read MorePieter Abbeel and Michael Jordan join the Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley
The Department of Indusrial Engineering & Operations Research is delighted to announce that Professors Pieter Abbeel and Michael Jordan, two of the best-known experts in machine learning, have been appointed as joint faculty in IEOR in addition to their primary appointments in EECS (and Statistics for Jordan). “Profs. Abbeel and Jordan are terrific colleagues that bring…
Read MoreKen Goldberg And Pieter Abbeel Awarded $1.3M NSF National Robotics Initiative Award
IEOR professors Ken Goldberg and Pieter Abbeel, and UC Berkeley professors Anca Dragan and Stuart Russell, have been awarded the NSF National Robotics Initiative Award for their research in scalable collaborative human-robot learning. Their project will be funded at $1,374,893 over the course of three years for research in scalable robot manipulation through human immitation. The…
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