“We’re not trying to solve laundry. We’re not trying to solve knot tying, Ultimately, we want robots to be able to learn anything humans can demonstrate. That’s the beauty of it."
UC Berkeley professor’s GoodGuide app lets consumers scan a product barcode and see how it affects health, the environment and society. Next comes the hard part.
Berkeley Art Museum stages farewell finale Sunday before beginning its move to new quarters closer to downtown.
Filmmaker Todd Darling occupied the Gill Tract occupation to craft a documentary that’s sympathetic but engaging.
A sorority woman worries that fraternity party hosts expect their sorority guests to offer “payback” for an evening of alcohol and entertainment.
In a self-published autobiography, the former Cal standout plumbs his family origins.
Berkeley’s famed folklorist applied his Freudian psychoanalytic approach to topics ranging from tongue twisters to ethnic slurs, from holy texts to football.
States and campuses are adopting a new standard of assent in hopes of thwarting what some call a culture of rape.
Innovation to turn display screens into vision-correctors named one of Scientific American’s “World Changing Ideas of 2014.”
In most states, day care costs more than a year of public college tuition. For those who can't afford it, care is often "a hand-me-down job. Men hand it down to women. High-income women to low-income women.…"
They aim to inventory the wild, edible plants growing in some of the Bay Area’s least healthy neighborhoods—so-called food deserts. If they're right, residents can eat healthier just by feasting on what’s already there.
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