Greetings from Berkeley! We are gearing up for a busy wrap-up of the spring semester, with five back-to-back workshop weeks at the Simons Institute...
In this month’s newsletter, we’re highlighting a 2015 talk by Chris Umans on some of the then state-of-the-art approaches to bound the matrix...
Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to understand the implications...
Simons Institute Director Shafi Goldwasser is an investigator on Project CETI, which uses advanced machine learning to decipher the meaning behind sperm whale clicks. The research project is one of a small number of initiatives featured in this New York Times article about scientific efforts to translate animal communication.
We are delighted to announce that Sandy Irani will be the Simons Institute’s next associate director. Her appointment begins this month.
Berkeley researchers are part of a newly launched multidisciplinary project aimed at cracking sperm whales’ Morse code-like communications off the Caribbean island of Dominica.
