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Magic is an electronic design automation (EDA) layout tool for very-large-scale integration (VLSI) integrated circuit (IC) originally written by John Ousterhout and his graduate students at UC Berkeley. Work began on the project in February 1983.
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is in contrast to copyleft licenses, which have share-alike requirements. The original BSD license was used for its namesake, the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix-like operating system ...
Graduate students Chuck Haley and Bill Joy improved Thompson's Pascal and implemented an improved text editor, ex. [7] Other universities became interested in the software at Berkeley, and so in 1977 Joy started compiling the first Berkeley Software Distribution (1BSD), which was released on March 9, 1978.
The Second Berkeley Software Distribution (2BSD), released in May 1979, [3] included updated versions of the 1BSD software as well as two new programs by Joy that persist on Unix systems to this day: the vi text editor (a visual version of ex) and the C shell. Some 75 copies of 2BSD were sent out by Bill Joy. [1]
Berkeley has one of the oldest, most active and award-winning sections of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE); established in 1975, it has been recognized with the "Outstanding Collegiate Section Gold Mission Award" at the annual SWE national conference, which is the largest gathering for women in engineering and technology.
The Heyns Reading Room, [4] named after Roger W. Heyns, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley from 1965 to 1971, is the smaller of the two and exhibits hand-carved wood ceilings depicting the names of famous academics throughout history, as well as the companion piece to Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware ...
Evans Hall was voted one of the ugliest buildings in UC Berkeley by its student body. [citation needed] Evans Hall is known for its large number of windowless classrooms. [4] The Chronicle of Higher Education has called it "an imposing concrete structure that most people on the campus would like to see demolished". [4]
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing [2] (BOINC, pronounced / b ɔɪ ŋ k / – rhymes with "oink" [3]) is an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing (a type of distributed computing). [4]