9. Robots, wildlife and bioinspiration

   Sangbae Kim, professor in mechanical engineering from MIT visited Berkeley today and gave a great inspiring talk on dynamic locomotion. The original title of the talk was "Toward Highly Dynamic Locomotion: Actuation, structure and control of the MIT cheetah robot".

   

   An early model of the cheetah robot. Image (c) biomimetics …

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10. PhD: expectations and reality

    Introduction

    Deciding to do a PhD is a huge commitment as you are just dedicating a couple of years of your life to a single cause. When I decided to do a PhD in 2006 I was not completely sure what would expect me. I just finished my master of …

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11. Bootstrapping at UC Berkeley

    Today I had my first day at UC Berkeley in Dawn Song's group and I must say that it was quite an intensive day! Most of the time went into going through all the bureaucratic processes here at Berkeley. I always thought that ETH Zurich was bad, but the …

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12. An expats start as a security postdoc at UC Berkeley

    What is this blog post all about (aka tl;dr)?

    This post covers our first two weeks in Berkeley, California and includes our struggles to find reasonable housing, a car, pitfalls with Visa requirements, how to get a driving license, and generally how to start a new life in the …

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13. Academic careers or how to become a professor.

    Summary: Have a vision. Stay foolish.

    Introduction

    On May 11th 2011 the VMI (the organization of the scientific staff at the CS department at ETH Zurich where I'm currently the president) organized an informational event on how to start and how to structure your academic career. If you are pursuing …

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