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Students, faculty
shine at Berkeley in Silicon Valley technology forum
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engineering graduate student
Katherine Dunphy (left) describes her work on manipulation
of biological molecules using micro-electrofluidics at the
Berkeley in Silicon Valley event. Photo: Peg
Skorpinski |
This spring’s second annual Berkeley in Silicon Valley event,
"New Directions in Technology," offered faculty and
students an opportunity to describe their cutting-edge work at
talks, poster presentations, and a variety of sessions.
Jointly sponsored by the Colleges of Engineering, Chemistry, and
Letters and Science on June 1, the forum took place at the elegant
Hayes Mansion Conference Center in San Jose. Joseph B. Costello,
chairman and CEO of think3, Inc. and Berkeley alumnus (Physics,
’80), gave the keynote address, entitled "What Makes
a Good Entrepreneur."
Faculty speakers, including EECS professor Kristofer Pister (who
spoke about his "smart dust" wireless sensors), chemistry
professor K. Birgitta Whaley (on quantum nanoprocessors), and
bioengineering professor Kimmen Sjölander (about the informatics
of plant immunity) discussed some of today’s pressing issues
in the fields of biotechnology and nanotechnology, supplemented
with a special session on leading-edge research coming out of
the newly launched Center for Information Technology Research
in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
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