Steve Chen, founder of EchoLink, a credentials-verification blockchain project, has been appointed industry co-lead of the new Berkeley Blockchain Lab, a platform for students to gain real-world experience working with blockchain technology at the University of California, Berkeley. The Berkeley Blockchain Lab is an initiative of the Sutardja Center for Read more…
What do microscopes, lasers & greener jeans have in common? They are all UC Berkeley Bakar Fellows technologies that were generously shared by the inventors with students in Lean Transfer. Students from Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley Fung Institute For Engineering Leadership, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology – SCET & Haas School of Read more…
At the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, we welcome many international students to our programs. But what happens after graduation? Our thanks to SCET mentor Nadia Yakoob for contributing the article below to help students understand options for staying in the U.S. after graduation to build a startup, work, Read more…
In late October, executives and managers from around the world gathered at Berkeley to participate in our first open-enrollment Silicon Valley Innovation Leadership week. In what was described as a “fantastic” and “organization changing” week, our global participants heard from our leading faculty on disruptive technologies (AI, Big Data, AR/VR, Read more…
Purin Phanichphant is an artist and designer whose work spans broad areas: he has served as a product and interaction designer with clients from Levi’s to Genentech at design firm IDEO, led design efforts at speech AI startup Gridspace, and developed an inventive art practice that focuses on “creating things Read more…
Following recent major events for the SCET Blockchain Lab, including the Collider Sprint with Steve Chen teaching on Bitcoin, Ethereum & DAPP, and EchoLink’s Steve Chen’s bitcoin donation valued at $50K, SCET is pleased to welcome a new member to our Lab, NEO.org. Founded in 2014, NEO currently has a market cap of Read more…
Interested in learning more about blockchain and crypto-currencies like Bitcoin? Come join us to meet Da HongFei and staff at NEO, non-profit community-based blockchain project, to learn how NEO achieved a meteoric rise to become the #10 highest valued crypto-currency. The event will also celebrate NEO becoming a new member of SCET’s Blockchain Lab. Read more…
Our latest National Science Foundation I-Corps *free* one week Immersive Short course just wrapped with a surprise reveal. A Bakar Innovation Fellow-led team got out of the building with a hypothesis that cosmetic companies would love their fatty acid technology. Fifteen interviews and one week later, they learned that local (!!) Read more…
Students in the A. Richard Newton Lecture Series attended a fireside chat with founder Matt Hershenson. Known for co-founding Danger, the company responsible for bringing the T-Mobile Sidekick to life, Hershenson has also worked at Apple, Phillips, and Google as a hardware engineer and then co-founded Playground, a fund and Read more…
Artificial intelligence is giving companies unprecedented insights into our personal information. Can individuals protect their privacy by using applications that add fake data to our online behavior? Recently, the credit-reporting agency EquiFax leaked the social security numbers for almost half of all Americans, causing much anxiety about privacy. But there Read more…