CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
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.
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
Engineering, Signal Processing, Analysis Of Large Scale Networks, Communication And Information Theory, Communications, Information Theoretic Security, Machine Learning, Performance Analysis Of Communication Networks, Wireless Systems
Adjunct Professor, Statistics
UC Santa Cruz
Engineering, Statistics, Applied Stats, Bayesian Methods, Financial Econometrics
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Circuits, Signals, Systems
Research Associate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
Engineering, Databases And Systems Analysis, Databases, Electronic Commerce, Software Systems, Systems Analysis And Design, Web And Internet Technologies
Distinguished Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
Engineering, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics
Professor, History
UC Santa Cruz
Humanities, Japanese History, Colonialism, Early Modern Japan, Modern Japan; History Of Social Sciences, Nationalism
Professor, Technology Management in Sustainability
UC Santa Cruz
Engineering, Energy Economics And Policy, Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Interdisciplinary Research, Operations Research, Public Policy Analysis, Quantitative Modeling, Transportation Economics, Transportation Policy, Water Resources Economics, Water Resources Policy
This newsletter covers CITRIS’s emerging energy-efficiency testbed community
A Memorial Service for Dr. Gary Baldwin, Director of Special Projects, CITRIS @ Berkeley will be held in Palo Alto on Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 2:30pm
John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost and the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. He is the former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
As a nation, over half of our students fail Algebra every year. Agile Mind was founded with the mission of changing what happens between educators and students in the classroom in ways that improve the quality of instruction of high school mathematics and science, especially in underserved areas.
Dr. Gary Baldwin, Director of Special Projects, CITRIS @ Berkeley, passed away on November 16, 2010, after a short battle with cancer.
The past decade has seen incredible interest in applying information and communication technologies for international development, an endeavor often abbreviated “ICT4D.”
Computing has become ubiquitous and indispensable: it is embedded all around us, in cell phones, automobiles, medical devices, and much more. This ubiquity brings with it a growing challenge to ensure that our computing infrastructure is also dependable and secure. We need to develop and maintain complex software systems on top of increasingly unreliable computing substrates under stringent resource constraints such as energy usage.
Learn more about the exciting talks on energy efficiency this semester at CITRIS
The fall series is now available.
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a venerable discipline, with significant research papers going back to the early 1950’s. Given this long history, ASR is often viewed as a mature field. However, like human beings, a research topic can be old without being mature.
The UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center was formed five years ago to advance the commercialization of energy efficient technologies and to prepare the next generation of leaders in energy efficiency.
Text-messaging has quickly become the dominant form of remote communication in much of the world, surpassing email, phone calls and even grid electricity. This has social development and crisis response organizations to leverage mobile technologies to support health, banking, access to market information, literacy and emergency response.
The evaluation and management of new information technologies is an increasing challenge for health care organizations that want to establish innovation as a core strategic capability.
Opinion is notoriously ill-defined and subject to biases and uncertainty principles. On March 15 2010, the U.S. State Department launched Opinion Space, a visualization tool for world opinion developed by students and colleagues at the UC Berkeley Center for New Media.
In his talk, Dr. Jacob will take you on a guided tour of what your life could be in the short and long-term future. We are increasingly living in a physical world augmented by the arrival of many digital worlds. When you watch a movie, you don’t know when the real actors are shown on the screen versus wire-framed computer-generated clones.
The proposed Google Book Search (GBS) settlement can be viewed as a way to achieve copyright reform through the class action settlement process. This is especially evident in its plan for commercializing orphan works and in the compromises it embodies concerning revenue splits for authors and publishers in respect of ambiguous contracts about e-book rights and its new procedures to ensure that author reversion rights will be effectuated.
The goal is to develop new and innovative technologies that will lead to 10x the capabilities of current products at 1/10x the cost. An additional even more challenging goal is to also achieve 10x reliability. The intent of the project is to also promote research collaboration between the universities, national laboratories, and private industry.
