OK, don’t answer that. But feel free to answer this: how will Berkeley students celebrate April Fools’ Day?

Engineers, for one, officially re-released a joke website to the press, therefore continuing the recent trend of snazzy Berkeley websites. But it’s not just any joke website. Jester 4.0 uses a “sophisticated algorithm” to pinpoint taste in humor based on a user’s ratings of jokes. Developed by Professor Ken Goldberg–who also helped invent the TeleGarden–the site recently underwent an impressive revamping by eager undergrad, Tavi Nathanson.

Perhaps now is the perfect time to make a “Har har, Berkeley is so nerdy!” joke, but we’re afraid you’ll rate us “less funny.” Instead, the Clog will use this moment to take pride in the superior intelligence of our academic community. At least students here are smart enough not to engineer a bomb threat hoax.

So an EECS prof and an undergrad walk into a computer lab [NewsCenter]
Website at U. of California Tailors Jokes to Individual Tastes [Wired Campus]
April Fools’ joke backfires on student [The Age]

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Tags:april fools' day, Engineers, Jester 4.0, jokes, Ken Goldberg
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