The Summer of Service Technology Institute won the Special Prize for Best Use of IT for Rural America ($5000 from AT&T) in this year's CITRIS White Paper competition and has now produced a summary video to share how the institute went.
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.
Paul Wright named CITRIS Acting Director
Paul Wright, the current Chief Scientist at CITRIS, has been appointed Acting Director of the institute. Prof. Wright is a professor in Mechanical Engineering and co-director of both the Berkeley Manufacturing Institute and the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.
Shankar Sastry Appointed Dean of Engineering
Congratulations to CITRIS Director Shankar Sastry, who has recently been appointed Dean of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley.You can read the full story on the UC Berkeley website.
The Future of Search – 2007 Agenda
The videos from this year's event "The Future of Search" are now online.
CITRIS Newsletter online
Read about the NOOR project and efforts in Peta computing in the April/May newsletter now online.
Student competition at CITRIS: $25K in prizes
Deadline is April 23 at 5:00 p.m. for the second annual CITRIS White Paper competition, which will give away $25K in cash prizes for the best ideas that demonstrate the ability of IT to address a major societal challenge.
Electric Car Conference on UC Santa Cruz draws hundreds
Fans and makers of electric cars from around Northern California converged on UC Santa Cruz on March 10 for a conference and car show celebrating the battery-powered green machines.
CITRIS Newsletter Online
Read about the technology behind the dazzling holiday gala in addition to our efforts to support student research in the February/March newsletter.
Electronic medical records aid newborns
The
National Institutes of
Health has provided $1.35 million to a team of researchers at UC Santa Cruz working to develop
new statistical approaches that could dramatically improve the care for
severely ill newborn babies.
UC Santa Cruz launches Knowledge Services and Enterprise Management
A new graduate certificate program in Knowledge Services and Enterprise
Management (KSEM) offered by UCSC focuses on building the skills required to design and manage
technology-based enterprises.
CITRIS Research Exchange, Fall 2006 Schedule
These popular talks are held every Wednesday at
noon in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building on the UC Berkeley campus and are
all free, open to the general public, broadcast live online, and archived on the
CITRIS website.
UC Santa Cruz creates new major in computer game design
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has approved a new major in computer
game design, the first of its kind in the UC system.
Agricultural projects win CITRIS White paper competition
Two agricultural proposals’one on supporting
urban agriculture in Mexico City and the other on alleviating water scarcity in
California farming’are co-winners of the first annual CITRIS White Paper
competition and will receive $7500 each.
CITRIS and Hong Kong open R&D Centers
On April 20, five new R&D centers opened in Hong Kong to further
promote the development of innovation and technology. Hosted by
local universities and technology support organisations, including CITRIS, the Centers
provide a one-stop service for applied research, technology transfer and
commercialisation and help facilitate industries to move up the value chain.
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A. Russell Flegal
My research is on the natural biogeochemical cycles of trace elements in the environment and the perturbation of those cycles by anthropogenic processes. Many of my studies investigate aquatic toxicology in fresh water and estuarine and marine ecosystems. Others address the toxicology of trace elements in ecosystems and humans.
Darrell Long
Dr. Darrell D.E. Long is Professor of Computer Science. He holds the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair of Storage Systems Research and is Director of the Storage Systems Research Center.
He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from San Diego State University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. His dissertation advisor was Jehan-François Pâris.
Katia Obraczka
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Professor Luca de Alfaro
Dr. Luca de Alfaro works in the areas of Reputation systems, collaboration on the web and beyond, e-commerce, Embedded software design, formal methods for system design, Discrete, real-time, embedded, probabilistic systems Game theory, concurrency theory, and automata theory.
Roberto Manduchi
I am an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. My research focuses on assistive technology for the visually impaired. Specifically, I am exploring the use of mobile computer vision and wearable sensors to provide a blind person with increased spatial awareness.
I hold a “Dottorato di ricerca” in Electrical Engineering from the Universita’ di Padova, Italy. Prior to joining UCSC in 2001, I worked at Apple, Inc. and at NASA JPL.
I currently collaborate with SKERI (San Francisco), FBK (Trento, Italy), and CICATA-IPN (Queretaro, Mexico).
Ali Shakouri
Professor
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California System and Indian Scientific Organizations Ink Landmark Agreement on Global Research
A recent landmark agreement increases the collaboration between the University of California System, including CITRIS, and leading Indian scientific organizations and universities, to a far deeper level in areas of science, technology, research and education. More
$20K CITRIS competition for student ideas
CITRIS is sponsoring a $20K "white paper" competition that is open to teams of undergraduate and graduate students from all 4 CITRIS campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Santa Cruz, and Merced). Papers are due May 1, 2006. More
Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management (ISSDM) formed
The University of California, Santa Cruz, and Los Alamos National Laboratory have agreed to establish a new collaborative institute, the Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management (ISSDM), for research and education in the area of scientific data management.
Services: Science, Management and Engineering curriculum launched
CITRIS is
pleased to announce that IBM is supporting a new curriculum initiative
in Services: Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) designed to
prepare graduate students for careers in the emerging multidisciplinary field of services sciences, engineering, and management.