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Call It Multiplicity: How Humans and Machines Can Work Together
In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal today, IEOR Professor Ken Goldberg argues that humans and machines are most powerful when working together. When the world’s top-ranked Go player lost to Google’s AlphaGo last month, many saw it as another step…
Ken Goldberg’s AUTOLAB Takes Robot Grasping To A New Level
New research by Professor Ken Goldberg, Jeff Mahler, and the Laboratory for Automation Science and Engineering (AUTOLAB) shows real progress on the problem of robots grasping everyday objects. DexNet 2.0 used deep learning with a cloud database of thousands of 3D objects to collect 6.7 million…
Mark Velednitsky Finds Short Proof For Traveling Salesman Problem
IEOR graduate student Mark Velednitsky has reduced a twenty-eight page proof for the traveling salesman problem (TSP) to just a few lines. Velednitsky’s proof titled “Short combinatorial proof that the DFJ polytope is contained in the MTZ polytope for the…
Exercising with Cal Fitness
While thousands of fitness apps are available, not much scientific research exists to show if these apps can actually help people achieve their exercise goals. That’s why industrial engineering and operations research Ph.D. students Yonatan Mintz and Mo Zhou, working with professor Anil Aswani, built…
IEOR 170: Industrial Design and Human Factors Project Highlights
This semester, students taking IEOR 170 encountered terrific success in their creative design projects and ideas. Ten teams of students gained hands-on experience designing real-world solutions based on the theories learned in the course. This semester the problems revolved around how to better…
MEng Alumus Featured in Inc. ’30 under 30′ list
M.Eng alumnus Han Jin, founder and CEO of Lucid VR was recently featured in Inc. ’30 under 30′ list. Lucid VR’s first product is the $499 LucidCam, a virtual reality camera that lets users capture the world in 3D. “It…
Burak Kazaz featured in Forbes for work on Wine Futures
IEOR visiting scholar and Syracuse University Professor Burak Kazaz’s research on wine analytics was recently featured in a Forbes. In Kazaz’s paper, Wine Analytics: Fine Wine Pricing and Selection under Weather and Market Uncertainty, he argues that distributors that carefully invest…
Volunteers make Cal Day a success
More than forty students volunteered their Saturday to talk to prospective students, families, and visitors from all over the globe for Cal Day, the University of California, Berkeley’s annual open house event. At the main table in the Etcheverry breezeway, students ran…
Recognizing Alumnae for International Women’s Day & Women’s History Month
Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), an internationally recognized celebration and commemoration of women’s rights, and March is Women’s History Month. We recently profiled one of our favorite female historical figures, Lillian Gilbreth, the first woman to speak at Cal graduation and a Cal alumna who…