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• Ninety-foot drop can't stop robot cockroach

  BNET - 2009-10-15

  (Credit: UC Berkeley) Researchers in California are developing a simple robot cockroach that can be assembled in an hour, move quickly, and survive 92-foot falls. The Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod , or DASH, is a neat example of the insectile robotics from Berkeley's ...

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• Surviving the University Crisis In California

  BNET - 2009-09-28

  Yesterday my sister Jane contacted me in a panic. She's terrified that her son, who is a senior at an excellent public high school in the San Francisco Bay area, might get shut out of every state university on his list. And no, my sister isn't paranoid....

  Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, California, Tuitions, Class Offering, Marketing Research, Marketing, Lynn O'Shaughnessy

• Google Book Search? Try Google Library

  BNET - 2009-08-27

  Is Google ready--or willing--to become a library?Librarians, academics, and privacy advocates will gather Friday on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley to discuss the implications of Google's proposed settlement with publishers that, if implemented, will allow it to bring millions of books online.At issue are concerns over...

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• Open Source Visionaries Speak at UC Berkeley Boot Camp; Event Marks Invention of Ingres Code on Campus 30 Years Ago

  - 2008-10-29

  Students Offered a Chance to Learn New Software Skills That Could Help Them Thrive in the Marketplace upon Graduation WHAT: Nearly thirty years after the original Ingres database code today it is open source code was developed at UC Berkeley, representatives of the company and other open source leaders...

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• Bryan J. Sinclair and Pedro F. Suarez of Mintz Levin To Be Featured Speakers at UC Berkeley's Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series

  - 2008-10-27

  Series to Focus on Intellectual Property, Licensing and Legal Issues PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Mintz Levin intellectual property attorneys Bryan J. Sinclair and Pedro F. Suarez will be featured speakers at the Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 from...

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• FCD Breakfast Features UC Berkeley Prof. Jesse Fried Speaking on Equity-Based Compensation for Executives

  - 2008-10-15

  The Forum for Corporate Directors FCD, a leading Southern California resource for achieving corporate board excellence and good governance, announced today that Prof. Jesse Fried of the University of California, Berkeley, will address its Oct. 29th breakfast meeting on the subject of equity-based compensation arrangements for public companies. Prof....

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• Litigation and Tax Quartet Join Sheppard Mullin San Francisco

  - 2008-10-10

  Peter S. Hecker, Neil A.F. Popovic, Anna S. McLean and Joanne M. Garvey have joined the San Francisco office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as partners. Hecker, Popovic and McLean join the firm's Business Trial practice group, and Garvey joins the Tax practice. The group most...

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• Dance: Mark Morris brings new version of 'Romeo and Juliet' to

  - 2008-08-31

  Mark Morris is the obvious story of any season -- audiences love the man's deceptively simple dance style, which is as easy to read as a 1930s cartoon, and often as clever. Easy or not, the power of Morris' art is that people from ages 8 to 80...

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• UC Berkeley dean is in the business of developing business leaders

  - 2008-08-31

  BERKELEY Richard Lyons hardly seems like the new dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Dean ... yes. New ... no. Lyons has officially been at the top position for fewer than two months, but he speaks about his vision as...

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• UC Berkeley dean is in the business of developing business leaders

  - 2008-08-31

  BERKELEY -- Richard Lyons hardly seems like the new dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Dean ... yes. New ... no. Lyons has officially been at the top position for fewer than two months, but he speaks about his vision as if...

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