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The world Les lives in is warm and well-lit; he graduates, absurdly early, absurdly fast, in the sunny median of May. Things in the world outside -- outside the Bay, outside California, outside the States -- are tense but here everything is relaxed and careless and drawn out and the music is loud and appropriate. Brass booming, strings squealing, softening, the national anthem soaks into the stadium, although there are many here who would prefer not to hear it.
UC Berkeley is the No. 2 engineering and information technology (IT) university in the world, according to rankings published by the Times Higher Education Supplement of London.
(This is a place where May Day, not July 4, is special.)
With rapid growth in technology, electrical engineering now encompasses solid-state circuits, microwave electronics, quantum and optical electronics, bioelectronics, radiation and propagation, plasmas, power systems, control systems,
He has spent every other weekend at least at home, with his parents, going to bed late and waking up at strange hours with his hair sticking up and the keypad of his TI-89 printed hard in the flesh of his cheek. He likes: cereal, cartoons, Yogurt Park, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has never needed to learn how to drive. He has excelled almost universally in school but has a passion, frequently declared, deeply felt and identified with, for coding open-source software. He owns Linux T-shirts (more than one) and dreams of scoring a job with Apache someday soon, or with Python, or Sun.
communications and information theory, circuit theory, large-scale networks and systems, computer-aided design, microelectromechanical systems, digital signal processing, robotics and pattern recognition.
The future is limited, Les knows, not by the capabilities of human minds, but by human hands; already technology demonstrates this, the discrepancy between intellect and body. Despite jokes about his being a nerd, he has friends -- most of them also nerds -- and has even had a semiserious girlfriend or two, briefly, although most of his relationships have been more like friendships with the occasional sexual element: this seems natural to him.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences encompasses many areas that have a direct bearing on our everyday lives.
(Most things do.)
Industrial end products such as computers, communication systems, and consumer electronics are visible evidence of the vitality and importance of these disciplines.
Employable, loved, and young, Les goes home and his parents frame the diploma, proud, and hang the robe somewhere (he isn't sure what they did with it) and in the morning he wakes up and there's nothing but fog at the window.
Our society's increasing involvement in information processing is reflected in the subjects of study in the department.
Surely it's natural.
UC Berkeley is the No. 2 engineering and information technology (IT) university in the world, according to rankings published by the Times Higher Education Supplement of London.
(This is a place where May Day, not July 4, is special.)
With rapid growth in technology, electrical engineering now encompasses solid-state circuits, microwave electronics, quantum and optical electronics, bioelectronics, radiation and propagation, plasmas, power systems, control systems,
He has spent every other weekend at least at home, with his parents, going to bed late and waking up at strange hours with his hair sticking up and the keypad of his TI-89 printed hard in the flesh of his cheek. He likes: cereal, cartoons, Yogurt Park, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has never needed to learn how to drive. He has excelled almost universally in school but has a passion, frequently declared, deeply felt and identified with, for coding open-source software. He owns Linux T-shirts (more than one) and dreams of scoring a job with Apache someday soon, or with Python, or Sun.
communications and information theory, circuit theory, large-scale networks and systems, computer-aided design, microelectromechanical systems, digital signal processing, robotics and pattern recognition.
The future is limited, Les knows, not by the capabilities of human minds, but by human hands; already technology demonstrates this, the discrepancy between intellect and body. Despite jokes about his being a nerd, he has friends -- most of them also nerds -- and has even had a semiserious girlfriend or two, briefly, although most of his relationships have been more like friendships with the occasional sexual element: this seems natural to him.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences encompasses many areas that have a direct bearing on our everyday lives.
(Most things do.)
Industrial end products such as computers, communication systems, and consumer electronics are visible evidence of the vitality and importance of these disciplines.
Employable, loved, and young, Les goes home and his parents frame the diploma, proud, and hang the robe somewhere (he isn't sure what they did with it) and in the morning he wakes up and there's nothing but fog at the window.
Our society's increasing involvement in information processing is reflected in the subjects of study in the department.
Surely it's natural.