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Alberto Cerpa’s Optical Turnstile

Tracking a building's occupancy rate can help managers target where the heating and cooling go. read more »

Electric Vehicles for Energy Storage to Stabilize Utility Grid

UCSC engineers are installing an EV recharge station and developing a smart-battery management interface system. read more »

Projects for a cleaner, more fuel-independent way of life

The ingenuity, persistence, and commitment at CITRIS is helping California, and the nation, navigate a course to a cleaner, more peaceful way of life. read more »

Forging into our second exciting decade of CITRIS

Director Paul Wright reports on the addition of two wonderful new leaders to our team. read more »

Solving the Brueghel Imbroglio: New tech to shed light on old paintings

This could be the basis of a paradigm for making the work on other artists more accessible and collaborative read more »

Nina Amenta: Looking for patterns and collaborations in the data

The new CITRIS@Davis director is compelled to get involved in research that will “have real world impact in other areas.” read more »

Wholesome Data: Using IT to Promote Healthy Behaviors

Programs promote healthy behaviors by feeding information to overweight and asthmatic youth. read more »

CITRIS Health Care Initiative Employs IT to Tame Costs and Boost Access

Many of California’s residents are tragically underserved. read more »

Birthing Games: Assistive Technology Lab Delivers Serious Perinatal Games

When mothers can successfully nurse their children…measurable benefits are amplified over the entire lifetime of the child. read more »

Turning Data into Democratic Action: Social Apps Lab at CITRIS

This is a problem of knowledge, specifically of local information, since dengue fever’s prevention depends on eliminating local breeding sites. read more »

Employing mobile-phone-based games to empower individuals: Aug/Sept 2011 newsletter

We are very excited here at CITRIS about the innovative applications of basic information technologies and principles to some very resistant societal problems. read more »

The Examined Life of Room 464

State’s Power Challenges Demand a Response: Sutardja Dai Hall Automates One read more »

Engineering Design that CARES

Assessment Group helps Pinoleville Pomo Nation Implement Sustainable Tech read more »

Announcing our new initiatives: CITRIS newsletter

CITRIS’s ‘Big Bets’ emerge out of our strategic planning work and address problems that are of significant importance. They each address a fundamental requirement for human life: Health, Sustainability and Energy. read more »

Detecting Gas Molecules with Low-Voltage Ionization

A new approach could allow for more affordable, efficient, and portable gas-detecting devices that could revolutionize industry. read more »

Letter from the Director for April/May

The world is full of valuable information that, if known, would save money, lives, and numerous resources. The trusses supporting our bridges contain information about when the aging structures will become dangerous to cross. read more »

Ali Javey: Putting smart little x on a rugged (or cheap, or flexible, or sticky) y

Professor Ali Javey works at the intersection of chemistry, electrical engineering, materials science, and physics. read more »

Letter from the Director, Feb. 2011

For the last decade, we at CITRIS have focused our efforts there, developing intelligent technologies that help measure, track, and manage water, energy, and other key resources in innovative ways that benefit the economy, the environment, and our quality of life. read more »

Water Sense: CITRIS MOTES and Wireless Networks Deployed to Help Monitor and Manage California’s Water Supply

A CITRIS-supported collaboration between scientists at UC Merced and UC Berkeley professor is deploying networks of wireless sensors in a prototype project at the National Science Foundation’s Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory. The sensors measure snow depth and other environmental factors that, once known, will allow much better measurement and prediction of the availability of our most precious resource. read more »

December 2010 Newsletter

This newsletter covers CITRIS’s emerging energy-efficiency testbed community read more »