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UC Berkeley Intro @ Beihang University

Reynold Xin
October 19, 2011
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UC Berkeley Intro @ Beihang University

Gave this talk to a group of grad students at Beihang.

Reynold Xin

October 19, 2011
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  1. “Cal” • The first University of California. September 1869. •

    Yale blue and California gold. • 35,838 students as of Fall 2010 including 25,540 undergraduates and 10,298 pursuing graduate degrees. • 1,582 full-time and 500 part-time faculty members dispersed among more than 130 academic departments and more than 80 interdisciplinary research units.
  2. Strong Research University • 70 Nobel Prizes, 9 Wolf Prizes,

    7 Fields Medals, 15 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes.
  3. Q: How many UC Berkeley students does it take to

    change a lightbulb? A: 76. One to change the lightbulb, fifty to protest the lightbulb's right not to change and twenty-five to organize a counter-protest.
  4. BSD Unix: Berkeley Software Distribution • BSD License is one

    of the most permissive software license. • BSD Unix (FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X), Ingres, Postgres, TinyOS, vi, sendmail... • Research software artifacts are open sourced.
  5. Application to PhD program • Recommendation letters • Statement of

    Purpose • GRE, TOEFL • Academic transcript
  6. Application Process • It’s very competitive. 3000+ applications. 80 -

    90 admitted each year. • Past research experience help.