UC Berkeley Intro @ Beihang University

Gave this talk to a group of grad students at Beihang.

Transcript

2. University of California, Berkeley Ankur Mehtank, Oriol Vinyals, Reynold Xin {mehtank, vinyals, rxin}@eecs.berkeley.edu
6. “Cal” • The first University of California. September 1869. • Yale blue and California gold. • 35,838 students as of Fall 2010 including 25,540 undergraduates and 10,298 pursuing graduate degrees. • 1,582 full-time and 500 part-time faculty members dispersed among more than 130 academic departments and more than 80 interdisciplinary research units.
7. Strong Research University • 70 Nobel Prizes, 9 Wolf Prizes, 7 Fields Medals, 15 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes.
8. Q: How many UC Berkeley students does it take to change a lightbulb? A: 76. One to change the lightbulb, fifty to protest the lightbulb's right not to change and twenty-five to organize a counter-protest.
9. Free Speech Movement Berkeley Student Activism
10. Anti-Vietnam War Berkeley Student Activism
11. Tuition! Berkeley Student Activism
12. EECS at Berkeley
13. Steve Jobs and Wozniak Apple
14. Gordon Moore Intel
15. Eric Schmidt Google
16. 周枫 ⺴⽹网易
17. BSD Unix: Berkeley Software Distribution • BSD License is one of the most permissive software license. • BSD Unix (FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X), Ingres, Postgres, TinyOS, vi, sendmail... • Research software artifacts are open sourced.
18. Application to PhD program • Recommendation letters • Statement of Purpose • GRE, TOEFL • Academic transcript
19. Application Process • It’s very competitive. 3000+ applications. 80 - 90 admitted each year. • Past research experience help.
20. Thanks! Questions? Ankur Mehtank, Oriol Vinyals, Reynold Xin {mehtank, vinyals, rxin}@eecs.berkeley.edu