This three-day hands-on short course on Parallel Computing will have have added lectures on parallel debugging and verification techniques.
UC Santa Cruz
Proximity to Silicon Valley makes UC Santa Cruz a natural place to engage the world’s industrial leaders and put new technology solutions to work. CITRIS Santa Cruz explores the design of new systems for immersive video and augmented reality, intelligent media for social good, and exploring the intersection of computing approaches from artificial intelligence, computer graphics, and software engineering with art and design. Creating new forms of interactive media with autonomous, generative, and dynamic responses to interaction has broad applications to fields from education, health, and entertainment to security and safety.
CITRIS Santa Cruz also examines the societal impact of CPS and IoT. Just as desktop computers and personal computing became commonplace decades ago, consumers are now acclimating to the idea that the objects they handle, the media they use, and the services they employ to process information are embedded with intelligence to improve everyday life.
Technology and Information Management/Knowledge Services and Enterprise Management
As the U.S. continues in its shift from a manufacturing to a services oriented economy, engineering education must respond.
Bionics Lab
This project aims to develop science, technology, and human resources at the interface between robotics, biological systems, and medicine.
Assistive Technologies
The Assistive Technology Lab performs cutting edge technology research on helping people with…
The Residential Load Monitoring Project
The Residential Load Monitoring Project aims to improve energy consumers’ knowledge of their consumption by…
Lolland California Renewable Energy (LoCal-RE) Summer Program
LoCal-RE’s program goal is to provide students with first-hand experience of the complex convergence of disciplines…
The Center for Sustainable Energy & Power Systems (CenSEPS)
CenSEPS is directed at exploration of the societal implications of new renewable energy technologies as well as…
Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC)
The SSRC is composed of faculty (CITRIS investigators) from the Computer Science…
Network Management & Operations Laboratory (NMO Lab)
The NMO Lab is focused on addressing real-world problems in complex networks…
Social Entrepreneur Center at UCSC
Professor James Davis received a CITRIS Seed Funded grant to plan a large social entrepreneurship program at UC Santa Cruz.
The Recharge Initiative: Enhancing Aquifer Recharge & Improving the Quality of Water Resources
Employs cutting-edge environmental monitoring, data transmission, and near real-time analysis of aquifer recharge.
Mobile Millennium
The Mobile Millennium is a prototype traffic monitoring system that uses GPS information gathered from cell phones.
July newsletter online
This recent newsletter has stories on (1) Cory Hall Testbed project through i4Energy, which installed a network of
monitoring equipment to track the flow and use of electricity, and (2) a new program, Cleantech to Market, that is
partnering with CITRIS to help select suitable clean energy projects and bring them to
market.
Making Clean Energy Real: C2M
A new Haas School of Business program, called Cleantech to Market (C2M), is partnering with CITRIS to help select suitable projects and bring them to market.
The Power of Cory Hall: i4Energy’s Testbed for the Future
Ten months ago, i4Energy received a grant from the CEC to rig Berkeley's Cory Hall with sensors. The project installed a network of
monitoring equipment to track the flow and use of electricity.
Job Opportunity: Associate Director of Development
CITRIS is hiring for the position Associate Director of Development, Corporate & Foundation Relations.
Teaching a Computer to Win Human Friends and Influence People
UCSC scientist Marilyn Walker has been looking hard at how humans express themselves, not just at what they say–but also at how they say it–in an effort to develop algorithms that will enable computer animations to employ those same techniques to express themselves more richly and compellingly.
Online Constellation of Opinions
Opinion Space, launched on the Department of State’s main website on March 15, is an analysis and visualization tool that employs dimensionality reduction algorithms to depict thousands of opinions on several issues in one simple, two-dimensional animated illustration.
Research Exchange: Real-time Monitoring of Managed Aquifer Recharge
California is highly dependent on groundwater to satisfy fresh water demands, but supplies are increasingly stressed and groundwater in many basins is overdrafted, leading to resource degradation and loss of storage. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is strategy by which excess surface water is infiltrated into the ground in natural or engineered structures, often as part of a broader effort to conjunctively manage and enhance linked surface water and groundwater resources.
Intelligent Design and Implementation of Nuclear Power for Carbon Free Energy– The Westinghouse AP1000
There has been some debate regarding whether we are currently experiencing a nuclear energy renaissance. There are currently 10 contracts to build the Westinghouse AP1000: 4 in China and 6 in the US.
i4Energy Seminar: Printed Energy Storage Devices for Micro-power Supplies
As electronic devices become smaller in volume and more specialized in functionality, a paradigm shift in energy storage design and manufacture is beginning to emerge and can be realized with the development of simple, low-cost, solutions-based processing methods to incorporate custom energy buffers directly onto a device.
Research Exchange: Affective Language in Social Technologies
Marilyn Walker’s research focuses on natural language processing, computer games, and the human-computer interaction.
Energy Management for the Pervasive Technology that Changes the World
One of the most pervasive technologies in the world –especially for the developing communities– comes in the form of mobile communication devices and associated services.
Structural Health Monitoring: Research, Applications, and Integration with Renewable Energy Technologies
Structural health monitoring (SHM) for large scale bridges has been practiced over 10 years in Hong Kong, The SHM system for the new Stonecutters Bridge incorporates 1,505 sensors.