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| Through the middle decades of the twentieth century, the Berkeley campus enjoyed a golden age in the physical, chemical and biological sciences. During that period, researchers affiliated with the campus discovered all the ]s heavier than ], garnering a number of ]s for these efforts along the way. Two of the elements, ] and ], were named in honor of the university. Another two, ] and ], were named in honor of faculty members ] and ]. The University administers the ], the ], and the ]. | Through the middle decades of the twentieth century, the Berkeley campus enjoyed a golden age in the physical, chemical and biological sciences. During that period, researchers affiliated with the campus discovered all the ]s heavier than ], garnering a number of ]s for these efforts along the way. Two of the elements, ] and ], were named in honor of the university. Another two, ] and ], were named in honor of faculty members ] and ]. The University administers the ], the ], and the ]. | ||
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The University of California at Berkeley (UCB or Cal Berkeley) is the original campus of the University of California, situated in Berkeley, overlooking the Golden Gate in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chartered in 1868, the University gained notoriety worldwide nearly a century later for the student body's active protests against American involvement in the Vietnam War. This period of social unrest on campus could be traced to the Free Speech Movement, which originated on the Berkeley campus in 1964 and inspired the political and moral outlook of a generation. On a lighter cultural note, The Graduate, a seminal novel and movie of the era, was filmed on location at the university in 1966.
Through the middle decades of the twentieth century, the Berkeley campus enjoyed a golden age in the physical, chemical and biological sciences. During that period, researchers affiliated with the campus discovered all the chemical_elements heavier than Uranium, garnering a number of Nobel Prizes for these efforts along the way. Two of the elements, Berkelium and Californium, were named in honor of the university. Another two, Lawrencium and Seaborgium, were named in honor of faculty members Ernest O. Lawrence and Glenn T. Seaborg. The University administers the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Perhaps befitting a place which spawned the Free Speech Movement, Cal Berkeley also nurtured a number of key technologies associated with the early development of the Internet and the Open Source Software movement. The original Berkeley Software Distribution, commonly known as BSD Unix, was assembled in 1977 by Bill Joy as a PhD student in the computer science department. PostgreSQL emerged from faculty research begun in the late 1970s. SendMail was developed by Eric Allman at Berkeley in 1981. BIND(Berkeley Internet Name Domain package} was written by a team of graduate students around the same time period. The Tcl programming language and the Tk GUI toolkit were developed by faculty member John Ousterhout in 1988.
In an interesting example of the confluence of intellectual ideas, many of the arguments for the efficacy of Open Source software development, and of the Misplaced Pages project itself, find parallel in architectural treatises dating to the late 1970s byChristopher Alexander, a Berkeley professor of architecture also noted for his influence on the fields of software engineering and computer science. Around that same time period, the enthusiastic claims of early AI researchers were critically examined by John Searle, a Berkeley professor of the philosophy of mind and language.
The campus and surrounding community host a number of notable buildings by turn-of-the-20th-century architects Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan. Historic buildings on campus include, Sproul Hall, Hearst Mining Building, the Faculty Club, Doe Library, Wheeler Hall, South Hall and Hearst Women's Gymnasium.
Cal Berkeley's sports teams compete as the California Golden Bears (often referred to as "Cal"). They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A, and in the Pacific Ten Conference. The annual football Big Game between the Bears and the Stanford Cardinal is recognized as one of America's beloved collegiate sports rivalries.