Drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area with GPS-enabled mobile phones can now tap into new technology that promises to transform traffic monitoring. Researchers have publicly released pilot software that turns cellular devices into mobile traffic probes providing real-time information on traffic flow and travel times. (Below: College of Engineering Dean Shankar Sastry opens this briefing to visitors and media.)
UC Berkeley
The headquarters of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute are located in Sutardja Dai Hall (SDH) on the UC Berkeley campus. Specially designed to house this interdisciplinary research institute, the building contains 141,000 sq. feet of laboratory space for collaborative research, faculty offices, the 149-seat Banatao Auditorium, conference rooms on each floor, and modern classrooms. SDH also hosts the CITRIS Invention Lab, a rapid prototyping space used by UC entrepreneurs in our CITRIS Foundry startup accelerator program and the student maker community. The Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory occupies a two-story, 15,000-square-foot wing of Sutardja Dai Hall where academic and industry researchers develop prototypes for new biosensors, photonics devices, and other MEMS/NEMS sensors. SDH is equipped with hundreds of sensors and sophisticated systems for building management that form a living laboratory on campus for energy research and proof-of-concept demonstrations.
Presentations from TIER workshop
Presentations from the recent TIER workshop are now online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/TIER.
Check your carbon footprint at CoolClimate Calculator
The CoolClimate Calculator (http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu) has been developed by researchers at the Berkeley Institute of the Environment to help US households evaluate their complete climate footprints, including all direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, household energy, food, goods and services.
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Copenhagen Climate Congress
The University of Copenhagen is hosting an
international scientific congress on climate change March 10-12, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Findings will be compiled in a book on climate
change, and an excecutive summary will be handed
over to policy makers at the COP15.
The Deadline for paper submissions for the Copenhagen Climate Congress is November 1, 2008.
October Newsletter is online
The October newsletter is now online, featuring stories games for medical diagnosis and technology for giving voices to disenfranchised communities.
Big Ideas competition story in Science magazine
A recent article on Big Ideas appeared in Science magazine.
Watch live at 4:00 p.m.: Open Innovation Series talk by Carol Mimura
The talk is live online at 4:00 p.m. mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast
Videos from the Services in Health care conference are on YouTube
Talks and discussions from the recent Services in Health care conference are online at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3F05DD2A723C3887.
Wednesday’s Research Exchange Postponed
Due to unavoidable circumstances, our Research Exchange Seminar scheduled for Wednesday, September 17, 2008 has been postponed and will be rescheduled in the near future.
Nokia’s Distinguished Lecture Series
California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT), Center for
Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS),
and Nokia present the distinguished lecture series on Cyber-Physical
Systems (CPS).
The Black Cloud: Using Games to Understand Air Quality
A game by Prof. Greg Niemeyer aims to draw connections between human behavior and local air pollution in a innovative learning environment.
CSE and Parlab co-hosted a two-day “boot camp” on Aug 25-26
CSE and Parlab co-hosted a two-day “boot camp” on parallel computing on Aug 25-26. This free two-day short course targeted both developers and users of parallel computing on campus, at LBNL and among our outside collaborators.
UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab establish a stronger presence in the field of CSE
UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab established a stronger presence in the field of CSE, primarily through enhanced support for collaborativeresearch projects and development of the Designated Emphasis in CSE for PhD students in the application disciplines.
Paul Wright Receives 2008 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award
Paul Wright, professor in the Mechanical Engineering
Department at the University of California at Berkeley and Acting CITRIS Director was recently honored with 2008 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Computers and Information in Engineering Division’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
The UC Berkeley Graduate Council has established a Designated Emphasis in CSE.
The Graduate Council has established a Designated Emphasis in Computational Science and Engineering
[CSE] effective 7/1/08. The DE will be offered by an interdisciplinary
grad group and will educate doctoral students to effectively conduct
computationally intensive research across many fields of science and
engineering.
New CITRIS Theme: Computational Science and Engineering
A new multidisciplinary research and education theme has been added to CITRIS's research grid. Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) provides a framework for enhanced support of collaborative research projects involving CSE researchers and students. The program will educate students to better perform and effectively execute computationally intensive research across many fields of science and engineering.
Research Exchange schedule for the fall is now available
The fall semester schedule for the popular Research Exchange series is now on-line.
Daniel Kammen
Daniel M. Kammen is Professor in the Energy and Resources Group Energy and Resources Group (ERG) , Professor of Public Policy in the Goldman School of Public Policy and is Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley . He is also the founding Director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL).
New Book Examines Emergency Response Technology
A new book co-authored by Berkeley Mechanical Engineering graduate student Joel Wilson and Prof. Paul Wright describes the development of new technologies to support first-responders more effectively and more safely manage large urban/industrial incidents.
Kimiko Ryokai
Kimiko is an assistant professor at the School of Information and Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. Kimiko received her MS and PhD in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT in 1999 and 2005 respectively. At the MIT Media Lab, Kimiko was a member of the Tangible Media Group and the Gesture and Narrative Language Group, where she developed a number of tangible interactive systems to facilitate collaborative and creative learning.
Bringing WiFi to Rural Poor
Eric Brewer, a professor of computer
science at UC Berkeley, has spent the last five years seeking ways to
use WiFi to improve life in rural communities in the developing world. He shared his views and experiences in a keynote to a group of fellow
academics and engineers at recent workshop
Ming Wu appointed Chief Scientist at UC Berkeley
Ming Wu has been appointed the new Chief Scientist for
CITRIS at Berkeley. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences at Berkeley, and Co-Director of Berkeley Sensors and
Actuators Center (BSAC).
Newsletter: Smart HCCI Cars, and Predicting Direct Solar Irradiance
The June 2008 newsletter is now online, with two stories on key energy projects in both engine development and predicting solar availability for utilities.