Ray Meetup at Galvanize SF!
Join us for Ray (http://ray.io/) meetup on January 30th at 6:00pm, hosted at Galvanize SF! Please RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Ray-Meetup/events/267883815/ The post Ray Meetup at...
View ArticleRISELab Open House and Poster Session 2/13/20
This year’s BEARS Symposium will be held on Thursday 2/13/20 at the International House in Berkeley from 9am-5pm. https://eecs.berkeley.edu/research/bears/2020 Concurrently, RISELab will host an Open...
View ArticleProf. Aditya Parameswaran awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
Prof. Aditya Parameswaran, RISELab faculty, is one of the nine Sloan Research Fellowship recipients from UC Berkeley, in recognition of his work on building tools to enable people unfamiliar with...
View ArticleProfessor Alvin Cheung receives IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award
RISELab’s Alvin Cheung was chosen for the IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award. Alvin was recognized for his work at the intersection of data management and programming languages. Congratulations Alvin! The...
View ArticleProfessors Popa and Song featured in Berkeley Engineering Magazine
RISELab Faculty members Raluca Popa and Dawn song are profiled in the April 2020 Berkeley Engineering feature “Reinventing Cybersecurity.” Find it here. The post Professors Popa and Song featured in...
View ArticlePlease join the first Ray Summit Connect
Hello, Anyscale will be hosting a complimentary new online speaker series, Ray Summit Connect, throughout the Summer. Join these events to learn more about the future of Ray. The first hour-long event...
View ArticleNew Video – RISELab: Our Story
The post New Video – RISELab: Our Story appeared first on RISE Lab.
View ArticleTWIML Podcast: Rethinking Model Size: Train Large, Then Compress with Joseph...
Join RISELab’s Joseph Gonzalez on the TWIML (This Week in Machine Learning) Podcast for a discussion of his paper “Train Large, Then Compress: Rethinking Model Size for Efficient Training and Inference...
View ArticleRISELab Best Paper Awards
RISELab researchers were recognized with best paper awards at recent SIGMOD, VLDB and ICDE conferences. 2019 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award “Interactive Checks for Coordination Avoidance”, VLDB...
View ArticleIEEE Data Engineering Bulletin: COVID-19 Contact Tracing Update
Please check out Professor Gonzalez’s post to the June Edition of the IEEE Data Engineering bulletin. This special edition provides an overview of several of the major digital contact tracing efforts...
View ArticleThe Modin view of Scaling Pandas
The post The Modin view of Scaling Pandas appeared first on RISE Lab.
View ArticleRay Summit happening this Wednesday, September 30th through Thursday, October...
Inaugural Ray Summit is happening this Wednesday, September 30th through Thursday, October 1st. With thousands of the global Ray community from over 100 countries planning to attend, it’s an important...
View ArticleRISE Camp 2020 materials are available now!
Video recordings of all the presentations can be viewed on our YouTube channel. Slides and tutorials can be found on the event website. Thanks to all the participants who made RISE Camp 2020 a success!...
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Natacha Crooks wins 2020 ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie dissertation award
Originally posted on UC Berkeley EECS News Natacha Crooks wins 2020 ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie dissertation award CS Assistant Prof. Natacha Crooks has won the 2020 ACM Special Interest Group on...
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SEC 2020 Best Paper Award!
Congratulations to Samvit Jain and Prof. Joey Gonzalez of RISELab for winning the Best Paper award at The Fifth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing for the collaborative paper “Spatula: Efficient...
View ArticleMichael Jordan wins 2021 AMS Ulf Grenander Prize
Prof. Michael I. Jordan, one of RISELab affiliated faculty, has been awarded the 2021 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling. The prize, which was...
View ArticleBest paper award at NeurIPS 2020
RISELab faculty Prof. Michael Mahoney and his postdocs Michal Derezinski and Rajiv Khanna are recipients of NeurIPS 2020 Best Paper Award for their paper “Improved Guarantees and a Multiple-Descent...
View Article“Neural-Backed Decision Trees” Accepted to ICLR 2021
Want to improve accuracy, interpretability, and generalization for your production models? Check out “Neural-Backed Decision Trees” from Professor Joseph E. Gonzalez’s group — including Alvin Wan, Lisa...
View ArticleVideo: “A Programmable Cloud: CALM Foundations and Open Challenges”
Catch Joseph Hellerstein’s keynote address from POPL 2021: “A Programmable Cloud: CALM Foundations and Open Challenges”. Available on youtube here. The post Video: “A Programmable Cloud: CALM...
View ArticleRead + Watch: “New Directions in Cloud Programming” from CIDR 2021
RISELab researchers Alvin Cheung, Natacha Crooks, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Matthew Milano presented “New Directions in Cloud Programming” at CIDR 2021. Read the paper here. Watch the talk on youtube....
View ArticleRSVP for the RISELab Poster Session / BEARS Symposium – Thursday February 11,...
We are pleased to announce that RISELab will hold a virtual poster session as part of the BEARS 2021 Research Symposium on February 11, 2021 from 1:00-2:30pm PST. This virtual event will highlight the...
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David Patterson wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Congratulations Dave! Reposted from EECS News: CS Prof. Emeritus David Patterson has won the 13th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies. He shares...
View ArticleAlessandro Chiesa awarded the 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship
RISELab faculty member Alessandro Chiesa–along with five other Berkeley assistant professors–was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to...
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Alvin Cheung awarded the 2020 Intel Outstanding Researcher Award
Congratulations Alvin! Originally posted on EECS News and Intel.com: EECS Assistant Profs. Alvin Cheung and Jonathan Ragan-Kelley are among 18 winners of Intel’s 2020 Outstanding Research Awards (ORA)....
View ArticleMichael Mahoney Interview on Ben Lorica’s Data Exchange podcast
Listen to the interview here. The post Michael Mahoney Interview on Ben Lorica’s Data Exchange podcast appeared first on RISE Lab.
View ArticleJoe Hellerstein Named Dananami “Person to Watch”
Meet 2021 Datanami Person to Watch Joe Hellerstein The post Joe Hellerstein Named Dananami “Person to Watch” appeared first on RISE Lab.
View ArticleWe don’t need Data Engineers, we need better tools for Data Scientists
In most companies, Data Engineers support the Data Scientists in various ways. Often this means translating or productionizing the notebooks and scripts that a Data Scientist has written. A large...
View ArticleDouble congratulations to Mike Jordan!
A couple of announcements regarding Prof. Mike Jordan came in today: 1) Mike joins only a handful of distinguished Berkeley faculty members who have been elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal...
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Falx: Visualization by Example
https://falx.cs.washington.edu Falx makes visualization easy by synthesizing visualizations of the full dataset from small examples Modern visualization tools aim to let data analysts easily create...
View ArticleGreat Forbes article about Databricks
Databricks is one of the companies with roots in UC Berkeley – specifically, AMPlab and RISElab. This Forbes article gives the in depth narrative of their phenomenal success. (Subscription may be...
View ArticleGenerous gift to Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) by...
In a true Cal spirit of giving back, RISELab director, Prof. Ion Stoica, makes a very generous gift to Berkeley CDSS. You can read the full article here. The post Generous gift to Division of...
View ArticleBloomberg article on SiFive
SiFive, a company co-founded by RISE affiliate faculty (Krste Asanovic) and students, is making business news headlines. Full article here (may require subscription). The post Bloomberg article on...
View ArticleOpaque raises $9.5M seed to secure sensitive data in the cloud
See the article on TechCrunch. https://opaque.co/ The post Opaque raises $9.5M seed to secure sensitive data in the cloud appeared first on RISE Lab.
View ArticleMAGE Wins Best Paper Award at OSDI
The paper “MAGE: Nearly Zero-Cost Virtual Memory for Secure Computation” was among three selected at this Best Paper award at OSDI ’21. Congratulations to Sam Kumar, Dave Culler and Raluca Ada Popa for...
View ArticleRay Summit 2021
Ray Summit was a huge success this year, with seventy one individual speakers presenting over three days to an audience of more than twelve thousand attendees. Visit the Ray Summit website to view the...
View ArticleSo you want to build an open source tool/library as a grad student
This is a collection of experiences and recommendations for building an open source community as a grad student The post So you want to build an open source tool/library as a grad student appeared...
View ArticleThe inside story of how UC Berkeley became the incubator for red-hot...
Business Insider reports on how RISELab’s unique research model has sparked a generation of successful startups, featuring interviews with RISELab directors Raluca Ada Popa, Ion Stoica, and other RISE,...
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Sam Kumar wins OSDI Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award
Congratulations Sam! Originally posted on EECS NEWS: Submitted by Magdalene L. Crowley on July 19, 2021 – 11:52am Sam Kumar wins OSDI Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award CS graduate student Sam Kumar...
View ArticleRISE postdoc Hao Zhang wins Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI ’21 for:...
Congrats Hao! RISE lab postdoc Hao Zhang–working with Prof. Ion Stoica–has won the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI ’21 for the paper: “Pollux: Co-adaptive Cluster Scheduling for Goodput-Optimized...
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EPIC Lab receives $2M NSF grant to build tools for criminal justice big datasets
Originally posted on EECS NEWS: Submitted by Magdalene L. Crowley on September 7, 2021 – 1:55pm EPIC Lab receives $2M NSF grant to build tools for criminal justice big datasets CS Prof. Joseph...
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Secure computation: Homomorphic encryption or hardware enclaves?
Originally posted on Medium: Written by Raluca Ada Popa on September 16, 2021 How to collaborate with confidential data without sharing it. Secure computation has become increasingly popular for...
View ArticleVideo: Interview with Professor Alvin Cheung on Machine Programming and...
Professor Alvin Cheung talks with Justin Gottschlich, Principal AI Scientist and Director/Founder of Machine Programming Research at Intel Labs, about his journey to Berkeley, machine programming, and...
View Article“RAMP-TAO: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook’s Online TAO Data Store”...
Congratulations to RISELab’s Audrey Cheng, Natacha Crooks, Ion Stoica, Peter Bailis and their Facebook collaborators! “RAMP-TAO: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook’s Online TAO Data Store“, won...
View ArticleJunior faculty in RISELab receive tenure
Congratulations to RISELab co-directors Joey Gonzalez and Raluca Ada Popa for their recent tenure announcements! The post Junior faculty in RISELab receive tenure appeared first on RISE Lab.
View ArticleThe Turing Test Is Bad for Business
Originally posted on Wired: Written by Daron Acemoglu, Michael I. Jordan, and E. Glen Weyl on November 8, 2021 FEARS OF ARTIFICIAL intelligence fill the news: job losses, inequality, discrimination,...
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Podcast: The Data Wranglers
Join RISELab Co-Director Joe Hellerstein on The Data Wranglers podcast. Check the latest episode Best Use Cases of Apache Kafka with Jun Rao and more from The Data Wranglers website. The post Podcast:...
View ArticleHow AI Fails Us
Divya Siddarth, Daron Acemoglu, Danielle Allen, Kate Crawford, James Evans, Michael Jordan, E. Glen Weyl The dominant vision of artificial intelligence imagines a future of large-scale autonomous...
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Forbes: “Berkeley Research Lab Group Mints Second Billion-Dollar Business In...
Anyscale cofounders Robert Nishihara, Ion Stoica, and Philipp Moritz Anyscale is making news with their latest round of funding, featured in articles this week in Forbes: “Berkeley Research Lab Group...
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Ion Stoica to deliver keynote at Data@Scale
Register for Data@Scale to catch Ion’s keynote May 18! https://datascale2022.splashthat.com/ The post Ion Stoica to deliver keynote at Data@Scale appeared first on RISE Lab.
View ArticleNew Blog “How Machine Learning Became Useful: Reflecting on a Decade of...
Joey Gonzalez wrote a blog reflecting on the past decade of ML systems research and how data and compute were catalyzed by new ML abstractions to launch the ML revolution. Read it on Medium:...
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