There is a nice article by David Patterson (who used to direct the lab and won the Turing Award) on why Berkeley changes the name and scope of the lab every five years https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-... . Unfortunately, there's no good name for the lab across each of the five-year boundaries so people just say "rise lab" or "amp lab" etc.
irq-1|1 year ago
> Good Commandment 3. Thou shalt limit the duration of a center. ...
> To hit home runs, it’s wise to have many at bats. ...
> It’s hard to predict information technology trends much longer than five years. ...
> US Graduate student lifetimes are about five years. ...
> You need a decade after a center finishes to judge if it was a home run. Just 8 of the 12 centers in Table I are old enough, and only 3 of them—RISC, RAID, and the Network of Workstations center—could be considered home runs. If slugging .375 is good, then I’m glad that I had many 5-‐year centers rather than fewer long ones.
(Network of Workstations > Google)