2016 Newsletter

Last summer, we announced the 2015 death of Athanasios (Thanasi) Moulakis, the program’s founding director. If you were here in the Program’s first decade or so, you will remember Thanasi’s vibrant and dynamic personality. He taught many sections of its original seminars as well as History of Technology and Engineering...

Hello, Alumni and Friends! It’s been another wonderful year for the Herbst Program. Our biggest news is that our instructor search has been successful. From a field of more than 170 applicants, the eight Herbst faculty unanimously agreed on the two top candidates: Shilo Brooks and Laura Rabinowitz . Both...

This past semester, with the generous support of the Engineering Excellence Fund and the Dean’s Office, Herbst hosted Stuart Russell , a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley. Russell, a lively, thoughtful and compelling speaker, is an international authority on artificial intelligence whose book " Artificial Intelligence:...