Alphabet Inc. executive chair Eric Schmidt sits down with Chancellor Nicholas Dirks

By Ishaan Srivastava

Hours after the administration’s announcement of comprehensive cost-cutting measures due to a growing budget deficit, more than 1,000 members of the campus community saw Alphabet Inc. executive chair Eric Schmidt discuss his experiences in academia and industry and the importance of research universities with Chancellor Nicholas Dirks on Wednesday evening.

Held at Zellerbach Hall, the event inaugurated the spring 2016 season of Berkeley Talks, a series of conversations moderated by Dirks that seeks to engage “thought leaders” on distinctive and timely issues.

Toward the end of the event, subcontracted workers and members of the Student Labor Committee organized a brief demonstration outside the venue in support of a university labor union’s call for a speaker’s boycott on campus.

Schmidt — who received both a master’s and doctoral degree in the campus department of electrical engineering and computer science — is widely known as an Internet pioneer and has also served as the chief executive officer of Google Inc. While retaining chairmanship of the board, he stepped down as CEO in 2011, declaring that “day-to-day adult supervision (was) no longer needed” at the company.

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[Source]: Daily Californian