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Meet Minjoo Sur, the Entrepreneur Helping People Stay Motivated

Minjoo Sur (B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ‘18), co-founder and CEO of Huddle, joined the UC Berkeley SCET community after transferring to UC Berkeley in the fall of 2016. Since then, she has worked as a software engineer at Salesforce. Over the past year, she has furthered her mission to help people stay motivated…

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Is Manufacturing Being Overlooked?

Software represents the futuristic path, an avenue leading us rapidly towards the merge. Meanwhile manufacturing feels like a dying space, at least in the United States. And the data reflect that. Source: United States Bureau of Economic Analysis But just because manufacturing’s share of GDP has been decreasing does not mean it must continue that…

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Beyond the Molecule and Beyond the Device: Machine Learning and the Future of Healthcare

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” – Jeffrey Hammerbacher, Facebook Hammerbacher’s Lament Are we fated to suffer Hammerbacher’s Lament, with our best minds, and our best data, solely serving the gods of commerce?  What of serving mankind’s existential needs in an area as fundamental…

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