The eastern city limits coincide with the county line ( bordering Contra Costa County ), which generally follows the ridge line of the Berkeley Hills.

It settled on a location north of Oakland along the foot of the Contra Costa Range ( later called the Berkeley Hills ) astride Strawberry Creek, at an elevation about above the bay, commanding a fantastic view of the Bay Area and the Pacific Ocean through the Golden Gate.

Most of Berkeley lies on a rolling sedimentary plain that rises gently from sea level to the base of the Berkeley Hills.

Snow has generally fallen every several years on the higher peaks of the Berkeley Hills.

On October 20, 1991, a massive firestorm ( see 1991 Oakland firestorm ) swept down from the Berkeley Hills above the Caldecott Tunnel.

It is located on the grounds of the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Hills above the central campus.

The site consists of 76 buildings ( owned by the U. S. Department of Energy ) located on owned by the University of California in the Berkeley Hills.

Situated at the north end of the Berkeley Hills, East Richmond Heights overlooks the northern part of the San Francisco Bay.

Arlington Boulevard, a major north-south thoroughfare traversing the Berkeley and El Cerrito portions of the Berkeley Hills, runs through the center of the community and terminates at its north end.

In the 1920s, the East Bay Municipal Utility District ( EBMUD ) constructed an aqueduct through the Berkeley Hills to transport water from the San Pablo Reservoir to a still-active pumping facility in Kensington, located just above the Colusa Circle.

San Pablo lies on a sedimentary plain between the northern end of the Berkeley Hills and San Pablo Bay, although the city limits do not extend to the bayshore.

As of 2000, Mangonia Park had the ninety-first highest percentage of African American and black residents in the US, with 76. 70 % of the populace ( tied with Hanley Hills, MO and Berkeley, MO.

* Vendian animals: Arkarua from the Ediacara Hills of Australia, from the University of California Berkeley Museum of Paleontology.

* Bald Peak in the Berkeley Hills was renamed Vollmer Peak in honor of August Vollmer.

* Berkeley Hills

Notable secondary schools and school districts include Franklin High School ( Stockton, CA ), Kingfisher High School ( Kingfisher Oklahoma ), Alvin High School ( Alvin, TX ) Sprayberry High School ( Marietta, Georgia ), Thomas County Central High School, ( Thomasville, GA ), Xavier University Preparatory High School ( New Orleans, Louisiana ), Berkeley High School ( Berkeley, California ), Freeport Area School District ( Sarver, Pennsylvania ), Ferndale Area High School ( Johnstown, Pennsylvania ), Llano High, Junior High, Elementary, and Packsaddle Elementary Schools ( Llano County Texas ), Cleburne High School ( Cleburne, Texas ), Mount Vernon High School ( Mount Vernon, Ohio ), Newark High School ( Newark, Delaware ), Osbourn Park High School ( Manassas, Virginia ), James Monroe High School ( Fredericksburg, VA ), Roane County High School ( Kingston, TN ), Sabinal School District ( Sabinal, Texas ), Perrysburg High School ( Perrysburg, Ohio ), Sidney High School ( Sidney, Ohio ), Girard High School ( Girard, Pennsylvania ), Vincent High School ( Vincent, Alabama ), McAdory High School ( McCalla, Alabama ), Thomas Jefferson High School ( Council Bluffs, Iowa ), Irmo Middle School, Irmo High School ( Irmo, South Carolina ) and Oxnard High School ( Oxnard, California ), Saint Augustine High School ( Saint John's County FLA ), Lee County Senior High School ( Sanford, NC ), Palo Verde Valley High School ( Blythe, California ), George Washington Carver High School ( Winston-Salem, North Carolina ) Northampton High School ( Eastville, Virginia ), Coffee High School ( Florence, Alabama ), Blue Ridge High School ( Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona ), Sheridan School District ( Sheridan, Arkansas ), Oneonta High School ( Oneonta, New York ), Gwynn Park High School ( Brandywine, Maryland ), Ithaca High School ( Ithaca, Michigan ), Starkville High School ( Starkville, Mississippi ), Detroit Country Day School ( Beverly Hills, Michigan ), Woodford County High School ( Versailles, KY ), Oakleaf Junior High ( Orange Park, FL ), and Spencer Middle School ( Spencer, WV ).

The fire started on Saturday, October 19, from an incompletely extinguished grass fire in the Berkeley Hills northeast of the intersection of California State Routes 24 and 13 ( north of the Caldecott Tunnel west portal ).

* The East Bay Hills Fire-Multi-Agency Review of the October 1991 Fire in the Oakland / Berkeley Hills-California Office of Emergency Services, February 27, 1992

It is situated between the Berkeley Hills and San Pablo Ridge.

The western boundary nearly follows the crest of the Berkeley Hills.

The two most common systems are the classification adopted by the website AmphibiaWeb, University of California ( Berkeley ) and the classification by herpetologist Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History, available as the online reference database Amphibian Species of the World.

Its design resembles that of Berkeley DB without replicating it exactly, and has a feature set that includes many of those found in the traditional Berkeley DB and others that are specific to the Java Edition.

Three APIs are available — a Direct Persistence Layer which is " Plain Old Java Objects " ( POJO ); one which is based on the Java Collections Framework ( an object persistence approach ); and one based on the traditional Berkeley DB API.

* Evolution-A free / open source mail client ; contacts are stored in addressbook. db using Berkeley DB

Berkeley lies within telephone area code 510 ( until September 2, 1991, Berkeley was part of the 415 telephone code that now covers San Francisco and Marin Counties ), and the postal ZIP codes are 94701 through 94710, 94712, and 94720 for the University of California campus.

A number of small creeks run from the hills to the Bay through Berkeley: Cerrito, Codornices, Schoolhouse and Strawberry Creeks are the principal streams.

Some of Sappenfield's acquaintances are known to have brought the game to UC Berkeley.

The Duesberg hypothesis is the claim, associated with University of California, Berkeley professor Peter Duesberg, that various non-infectious factors such as recreational and pharmaceutical drug use are the cause of AIDS, and that HIV ( human immunodeficiency virus ) is merely a harmless passenger virus.

( For Berkeley, God fills in for humans by doing the perceiving whenever humans are not around to do it ).

On Pappas reading, Berkeley ’ s two theses — that there are no abstract ideas and that sensible objects must be perceived in order to exist — entail one another.

A. Luce or Geoffrey Warnock are long out dated, the book Berkeley's thought written by Dr Pappas is often included in lists of recommended literature on Berkeley ’ s philosophy.

Bell Labs, the MIT AI and LCS labs, UC Berkeley: these became the home of innovations that are legendary and still potent.

Subjective idealists like George Berkeley are anti-realists in terms of a mind-independent world, whereas transcendental idealists like Immanuel Kant are strong skeptics of such a world, affirming epistemological and not metaphysical idealism.

Nobel Laureate in physics George Smoot from the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( LBNL ), and Keith Jackson, a computer scientist and musician also from LBNL, are providing some of the data for the project.

The Dubna team are therefore officially recognised as the discoverers of nobelium although it is possible that it was detected at Berkeley in 1959.

* POSIX sockets are basically Berkeley sockets

This should not be confused with Idealism, as presented by philosophers such as George Berkeley: as Platonic abstractions are not spatial, temporal, or mental they are not compatible with the later Idealism's emphasis on mental existence.

The cities of Berkeley, California, and Boulder, Colorado, have passed laws stating that people who have pets do not " own " them ; rather, they are the pet's " guardian.

Oren Bracha, writing in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, says that when considering which of these options are correct, " the most probable answer all of them ".

Berkeley DB originated at the University of California, Berkeley as part of the transition ( 1986 to 1994 ) from 4. 3BSD to 4. 4BSD and of the effort to remove AT & T-encumbered code.

San Francisco from Indian RockPolitically, the area that became Berkeley was initially part of a vast Contra Costa County.

It was not yet " Berkeley ," but merely the northern part of the " Oakland Township " subdivision of Alameda County.

In 1876, a branch line of the Central Pacific Railroad, the Berkeley Branch Railroad, was laid from a junction with the mainline called Shellmound ( now a part of Emeryville ) into what is now downtown Berkeley.

The Great Depression hit Berkeley hard, but not as hard as many other places in the U. S., thanks in part to the University.

Indian Rock Park in the northeastern part of Berkeley near the Arlington / Marin Circle features a large example.

The 32 bit Berkeley RISC I and RISC II architecture and the first chips were mostly designed by a series of students as part of a four quarter sequence of graduate courses.

In 1976, Bonewits moved back to Berkeley and rejoined his original grove there, now part of the New Reformed Druids of North America ( NRDNA ).

* 1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.

During part of the time that she served as Mayor, she worked on a half-time appointment for UC Berkeley Undergraduate Admission and Relations with Schools and the Office of Admissions.

* nvi is an implementation of the ex / vi text editor originally distributed as part of the final official Berkeley Software Distribution ( 4. 4 BSD-Lite ).

In 1964 he returned to a professorship at UC Berkeley where he has spent the main part of his career.

Other works by Telford include the St Katharine Docks ( 1824 – 1828 ) close to Tower Bridge in central London, where he worked with the architect Philip Hardwick, the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal ( today known as the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal ), Over Bridge near Gloucester, the second Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal ( 1827 ), and the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal ( today part of the Shropshire Union Canal ) — started in May 1826 but finished, after Telford's death, in January 1835.

LSD manufacturer Owsley Stanley lived in Berkeley during 1965 and provided much of the LSD that became a seminal part of the " Red Dog Experience ", the early evolution of psychedelic rock and budding hippie culture.

The CDC 6600 was a mainframe computer from Control Data Corporation, first ( first in the United States ) delivered in 1964 to the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, part of the University of California at Berkeley.

The school also runs exchange programmes with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Fuqua School of Business, Kellogg School of Management, Stern School of Business and Yale School of Management as part of its MSc in International Management and an undergraduate student exchange programme with the University of California, Berkeley in Political Science.

During the 1960s, Lampson and others were part of Project GENIE at UC Berkeley.

On November 16, 2011 Ellsberg camped on the UC Berkeley Sproul Plaza as part of an effort to support the Occupy Cal movement.

As the API has evolved with little modification from a de facto standard into part of the POSIX specification, POSIX sockets are basically Berkeley sockets.