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• FireEye Brings Anti-Botnet Protection to Higher Ed

  - 2008-05-05

  FireEye and UC Berkeley to Co-Present at the EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference MILPITAS, Calif. -- FireEye, Inc., the leader in global anti-botnet protection, continues its anti-botnet offensive, helping educational institutions overcome their unique challenges to rid campus networks of stealth malware and botnets. In support of this effort, chief...

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• Nobel Prize winner donates $500,000 to UC Berkeley cosmology center

  - 2007-12-04

  BERKELEY _ Nobel Prize winner George Smoot is paying it forward. The astrophysicist, who last year won the Nobel Prize for his work confirming the ``Big Bang'' theory as the origin of the universe, is donating $500,000 to the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics at the University...

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• Group fights plan to cut eucalyptuses

  - 2007-10-01

  A huge swath of land in the East Bay hills will be little more than tree stumps and wood chips if the University of California, Berkeley gets approval to cut down 23,000 eucalyptus trees, according to a new group formed to fight the fire-safety plan. The Hills...

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• UC Berkeley goes after students for illegal downloads

  - 2007-08-19

  University of California, Berkeley, students who download music illegally over campus computer networks will face the higher education version of a "time out" -- a week or more with no in-room Internet link. The new policy comes as the entertainment industry ups the pressure on universities to...

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• UPDATE: UC Berkeley to punish students for illegal downloads

  - 2007-08-16

  University of California, Berkeley students who download music illegally over campus computer networks will face the higher education version of a "time out" -- a week or more with no in-room Internet link. The new policy comes as the entertainment industry ups the pressure on universities to deter...

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• Cal apartment shows power of green living

  - 2006-11-20

  University of California, Berkeley -- already home to the nation's first eco-friendly dorm room -- has expanded its "green" footprint this year with a two-bedroom apartment that showcases sustainable living. "We want to show people that it's possible and just make it easy to live a sustainable...

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• UC Berkeley apartment shows how to live fully green lifestyle

  - 2006-11-15

  The University of California, Berkeley -- already home to the nation's first eco-friendly dorm room -- has expanded its "green" footprint this year with a two-bedroom apartment that showcases sustainable living. "We want to show people that it's possible and just make it easy to live a...

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• Lawsuits may not curb downloads

  - 2005-04-14

  The recording industrys latest attempt to curb Internet piracy by suing hundreds of college students -- including two dozen at University of California, Berkeley -- probably wont have much of an effect on students behavior, one UC Berkeley computer administrator said Wednesday. Thats the big non-story here,...

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• NASA SATELLITE OBSERVES MYSTERIOUS EARTH ENERGY

  - 2005-02-22

  .STX Scientists using observations from NASA's Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager RHESSI satellite detected flashes of gamma ray energy in Earth's upper atmosphere in greater detail than ever before. RHESSI is part of NASA's Sun-Earth Connection program. It...

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• Slowing down light.(speed up network communication)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-11-01

  In a nod to scientific paradox, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have slowed light down in an effort to speed up network communication. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The researchers have shown for the first time that the group velocity...

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