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• At UC Berkeley, the all-nighter is an art

  - 2006-10-16

  BERKELEY A AS A RULE, Dennis Lyandres does not drink coffee. Yet here he sits, clutching a super-mega-grande. It's a school night, close to midnight, kind of damp and a little chilly; and Lyandres is hunched over his notebooks in a...

  Tags: Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, University of California at Berkeley

• Get coffee ready: It's time to cram

  - 2006-10-16

  BERKELEY -- As a rule, Dennis Lyandres does not drink coffee. Yet here he sits, clutching a super-mega-grande. It's a school night, close to midnight, kind of damp and a little chilly; and Lyandres is hunched over his notebooks in a quiet corner outside the Free Speech...

  Tags: cafe, Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, University of California at Berkeley

• All-nighters, caffeine keep Cal buzzing

  - 2006-10-16

  BERKELEY -- As a rule, Dennis Lyandres does not drink coffee. Yet here he sits, clutching a super-mega-grande. It's a school night, close to midnight, kind of damp and a little chilly. Lyandres is hunched over his notebooks in a quiet corner outside the Free Speech Movement...

  Tags: cafe, Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, University of California at Berkeley

• Imports And Productivity

  BNET - 2005-06-29

  What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers using product-level import data for a panel of Hungarian manufacturing firms from 1992 to 2001. In our model with heterogenous firms, producers choose to import or purchase domestically varieties of intermediate...

  Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Productivity, Manufacturing

• WWK Signs IP Acquisition Agreement for Ultra-Fast, Resource Driven Simulation Technology

  - 2005-02-22

  PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Wright Williams & Kelly, Inc. WWK, a cost & productivity management software and consulting services company, announced today it has reached an agreement with Dr. Lee Schruben of the University of California, Berkeley for the acquisition of intellectual property IP involving ultra-fast, resource driven RD manufacturing simulation....

  Tags: Dr., job, Manufacturing, PRODUCTIVITY, University of California at Berkeley

• Bad robot! Once again, it's forks on the left

  - 2000-10-23

  BERKELEY, CALIF -- A graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley developed technology that could revolutionize the restaurant industry -- tables that set themselves. Wired magazine reported that Dan Reznik, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, invented a table with a vibrating surface that reportedly can move...

  Tags: HARDWARE, Manufacturing, Mice, PRODUCTIVITY, Robots, University of California at Berkeley