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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), [ 10 ][ 11 ] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California ...
Mark Berger, B.A. 1964 – recipient of four Academy Awards for sound mixing and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley [59]; John Dykstra – staff researcher (c. 1973-1975) at UC Berkeley's Institute of Urban and Regional Development, which developed computer-controlled cameras and associated technologies that were later adapted for the groundbreaking special effects in Star Wars and later films ...
Founding. In 1866, the College of California, a private institution in Oakland founded by Andover and Yale alumnus Henry Durant, purchased the land that comprises the current Berkeley campus, and the State of California established an agricultural, mining, and mechanical arts college, which existed only as a legal entity to secure federal funds ...
Leonard Adleman, BA Math 1969, PhD EECS 1976, Turing Award laureate (2002) Jay Miner, BS 1959, "father of the Amiga " computer. Academy Award -winning actor Gregory Peck, BA 1942. Emmy - and Golden Globe Award - award-winning actress Kathy Baker, BA 1977.
Katherine Faber, Ph.D. 1982 – professor of materials science at the California Institute of Technology, originator of the Faber-Evans model for ceramics. Sally Floyd. B.S. 1971, Ph.D. 1989 – invented Random Early Detection, or RED, an algorithm widely used in the internet. Andrea Frome, Ph.D. 2007 – known in the fields of computer vision ...
Jesse Arreguin, B.A. 2003 – Berkeley City Councilmember (2008–present) Mario Bergara, PhD 1998 – president of the Central Bank of Uruguay (2008–2013), appointed Minister of Economy and Finance; Bernice Brown, 1928 – First Lady of California, Wife of Governor Pat Brown; Josh Brown, B.A. 2003 – Kitsap County Commissioner, Washington state
Beverly Cleary, B.A. 1938 – author of books for children and young adults. Sara Davidson, 1962 – author. Lucille Lang Day, B.A. 1971, M.A. 1973, Ph.D. 1979 - poet and author. Tiffanie DeBartolo, B.A. 1992 – author of God-Shaped Hole and How To Kill A Rock Star, and writer/director of Dream for an Insomniac.
Find out what's happening in Berkeley with free, real-time updates from Patch. The top 10 colleges in California were: 1. Stanford University. Overall Niche grade: A+. Acceptance rate: 4 percent ...