News
April 13, 2023
An Open-Source Chatbot impressing GPT-4 with 90% ChatGPT Quality, made by LMSYS
From our Large Model Systems Organization (LMSYS), we introduce Vicuna-13B, an open-source chatbot trained by fine-tuning LLaMA on user-shared conversations collected from ShareGPT.
October 19, 2022
Interview: ACM features Raluca Popa on “People of ACM Profiles”
October 5, 2022
Congrats to Shishir Patil for the POET project being featured in IEEE Spectrum!
September 29, 2022
Gateway groundbreaking brings new opportunity for computing, data science
“It's not only about data, it's what you're going to do with the data," said Stoica, adding that society is only beginning to see the impact of big data in many fields.
Sky Camp 2022 – October 19, 2022
Sky Computing will be holding our first annual camp event with talks and tutorials on October 19, 2022, in person at Banatao Auditorium on the UC Berkeley Campus. Visit the website for more details or email skycampATberkeley.edu.
Natacha Crooks receives VMWare Early Career Faculty Award
Congratulations Natacha for receiving the VMWare Early Career Faculty Award, recognizing the next generation of exceptional faculty members, supporting their research and to promoting excellence in teaching.
September 1, 2022
Sky Project in the News: Piranha
All you have to do is bring your cryptographic protocols to Piranha and then program on top of it. That’s why we say it’s really a platform. In this study, we implemented three protocols on top of Piranha to show that it works, but you could implement any protocols you wanted on top of it and still get the same acceleration benefits...
August 19, 2022
Building a better ORAM with Oblix and Snoopy
Rather than tread this path towards ever-increasing program complexity as we try to hand-craft obfuscation into our memory access patterns through linear scanning, we’ve built a layer of abstraction around RAM access that utilizes higher-performing oblivious RAM (ORAM) techniques. We are inspired by the systems discussed in current academic literature, such as Path ORAM, Oblix, and Snoopy and grateful to the researchers who developed and shared them...
July 18, 2022
Ion Stoica wins 2023 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
Presented annually, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1986 for outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications.
July 14, 2022
How Machine Learning Became Useful: Reflecting on a Decade of Research
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have become a critical piece of every aspect of life today. Yet 15 years ago, machine learning was a much smaller research discipline. How did a field born out of mathematics and theoretical computer science join forces with rapid innovation in data and computer systems to change the modern world? This is the question I have been asking myself as I reflect on my research career.