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Keynotes

BETTY T. YEE

32nd California State Controller

Keynote Speech: China and Berkeley: Opportunity and Cooperation

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The Honorable State Controller Betty T. Yee was elected in November 2014, following two terms of service on the Board of Equalization. Now serving as the state’s chief fiscal officer, Ms. Yee also chairs the Franchise Tax Board and serves as a member of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) Boards.  These two boards have a combined portfolio of nearly $570 billion.  Ms. Yee also serves on the Ceres Board of Directors, a nonprofit organization working to mobilize many of the world’s largest investors to advance global sustainability and take stronger action on climate change.

 
Ms. Yee serves on dozens of boards and commissions with authority ranging from land management to crime victim compensation.  As a member of the State Lands Commission (and chairperson in even-numbered years), she helps provide stewardship of public-trust lands, waterways, industrial wharves, marine terminals, pipelines, and resources through economic development, protection, preservation, and restoration consistent with the state’s environmental needs.  The development and extraction of oil, gas, and geothermal resources are part of the Commission’s purview, as well.  Through other financing authorities, Ms. Yee is dedicated to creating incentives that will increase the number of affordable housing units in California, an area where demand consistently outpaces supply.

Eric Betzig

2014 Nobel Laureate; Janelia Group Leader; UC Berkeley

Keynote Speech: Working Where Others Are Not

 

Eric Betzig (born in 13 January 1960) is an American physicist based at the Janelia Farm Research Campus. He is noted for developing the field of fluorescence microscopy and photo-activated localization microscopy. He is also the professor specializing in biophysics at UC Berkeley. In 2014, Betzig wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014.

 

Career Path

In 1989, Betzig was hired by AT&T Bell Laboratories in the semiconductor Physics Research Department.

In 1992, Betzig was awarded the William L. McMillan Award.

In 1993, he became the first person to image individual fluorescent molecules after inspired by Moerner’s research.

In 1996, he served as Vice President of R&D in Ann Arbor Machine Company.

In 2002, Betzig founded a firm known as New Millennium Research.

In 2005, he joined as a group leader at Janelia Farm Research Campus, developing new optical imaging technologies for biology.

In 2014, Betzig was awarded jointly the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stefan Hell and William E. Moerner.

David Patterson

2017 A.M. Turing Award Winner; Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the RISC-V Foundation; UC Berkeley

Keynote Speech: A Golden Age for Computer Architecture

 

David Andrew Patterson (born November 16, 1947) currently work as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the RISC-V Foundation. He is also the Pardee Professor of computer science, Emeritus at UC Berkeley. He is noted for his pioneering contributions to the RISC and RAID. His work has been recognized by about 35 awards for researching, reaching and service, including the institute of Electrical and electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association Computing Machinery (ACM), National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.

 

Careers

During 2003-05, he served on the Information Technology Advisory Committee for the U.S. President (PITAC).

For 2004-06, he was elected president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

In addition, he was also chair of the CS Division in the EECS department at Berkeley, the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Architecture and the Computer Research Association.

 

Significant Awards

In 2006, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Computing Research Association.

In 2007, he was named a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for fundamental contributions to engineering education, advances in computer architecture, and the integration of leading-edge research with education."

In 2008, he won the ACM Distinguished Service Award, the ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award, and was recognized by the School of Engineering at UCLA for Alumni Achievement in Academia.

On March 21, 2018, he was awarded the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award jointly with John L. Hennessy for developing RISC.

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