AMPLab – UC Berkeley

• Making cities safer: data collection for Vision Zero 2017-04-26
  A critical part of enabling cities to implement their Vision Zero policies – the goal of the current National Transportation … Continue reading →
  Shankari
• Data Hackathons Workshop: Early Career Funding Available 2016-09-01
  The West Big Data Innovation Hub (WBDIH) is excited to host a Data Hackathons: Lessons Learned and Best Practices Workshop … Continue reading →
  Meredith Lee
• CACM Article on Randomized Linear Algebra 2016-06-02
  Each month the Communications of the ACM publishes an invited “Review Article” paper chosen from across the field of Computer … Continue reading →
  Michael Mahoney
• Scientific Matrix Factorizations In Spark at Scale 2016-06-02
  The canonical example of matrix decompositions, the Principal Components Analysis (PCA), is ubiquitous, with applications in many scientific fields including neuroscience, … Continue reading →
  Alex Gittens
• Technical Preview of Apache Spark 2.0: Easier, Faster, and Smarter 2016-05-19
  This is a guest blog post originally published on the Databricks blog.   For the past few months, we have … Continue reading →
  Reynold Xin
• AMPLab postdoc Julian Shun wins the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016-05-11
  I am very pleased to announce that Julian Shun has been awarded the ACM’s doctoral dissertation award for his 2015 … Continue reading →
  Michael Mahoney
• Unexpected continuous location tracking/energy change in android? 2016-04-15
  So this is really weird, but I have found what seems to be unexpected continuous location tracking that is causing … Continue reading →
  Shankari
• Strata Keynote: “What’s Next for the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack” 2016-04-01
  The Strata+Hadoop World big data industry conference was held in San Jose this week and as usual, AMPLab and Berkeley were … Continue reading →
  Michael Franklin
• 40-Year Goodbye: A Last Lecture and Symposium 2016-03-29
  Hoping to start a new tradition, I’m giving a Last Lecture on Friday May 6, 2016 at 4PM, which is … Continue reading →
  Patterson
• What’s new in KeystoneML 2016-03-29
  At the AMPLab, we are constantly looking for ways to improve the performance and user experience of large scale advanced … Continue reading →
  sparks