This center focuses on technologies to help persons with special needs in their activities of daily life.
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.
Rx for Cybermedicine: Collaborate
New CITRIS projects employ complex mathematics and innovative sensor technology to address nuanced healthcare challenges.
New Cities Foundation Unveils Results of Landmark Study on Commuting and Social Networks
The New Cities Foundation unveiled the results of study charged with helping cities better understand how real-time social networking can enhance the overall commuting experience and improve traffic management.
CITRIS Foundry now open at UC Berkeley!
The CITRIS Foundry has officially launched! This program for UC entrepreneurs is now open for applications, and initial teams are expected to be announced in mid-December.
Ronald David Glass
Ron Glass is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education at UC Santa Cruz, and PI/Director of the U.C. Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC), a multi-campus research program initiative. CCREC approaches the state’s crises in the economy, education, employment, environment, health, housing, and nutrition as inextricably linked and as requiring innovative relationships among researchers, community organizations, and policy makers to understand and respond to them.
Measuring Human Contributions to Urban CO2
Findings could help urban planners and policy makers help California’s cities minimize their contribution to climate change.
Quantifying Nature’s Aquatic Requirements
CITRIS researchers are using sensors to find out how much water steelhead trout need to thrive.
Big Ideas at Berkeley contest – deadline is Nov. 6, 2012
The annual student-proposal award with $30K CITRIS prizes.
CITRIS Researcher Jacob Rosen featured in UCSC magazine
“A Robot’s Touch” article focuses on medical surgery innovations.
CITRIS Co-sponsoring Upcoming Workshop on Smart Cities
The aim of this conference is to tackle the question of “How Smart City approaches can be used to increase city attractiveness and city resilience?
NMO Lab Works with Cisco Engineers to Further Student Experience
Update from the NMO lab at UCSC.
Fall 2012 i4Energy Seminar Series
The Fall 2012 i4Energy Seminar Series
Positive Impact on California’s Healthcare, Energy, and Water
CITRIS attracts approximately 75 million dollars a year of fresh research funds to our campuses.
Towards Semantic Spatial Awareness: Robust Text Spotting for Assistive Technology Applications
This project will develop computer vision techniques that can be used to assist people whose are hampered by disability in movements.
Quantitative Sensing and Modeling of California’s Aquatic Ecosystems
Monitoring the ecosystems of lakes and estuaries.
CITRIS research to assist citizens in accessing legal texts
The system will recommend relevant information and also educate users about the databases.
Sensing CO2 Domes for Adaptive Management of Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Exploring a new way to provide near real-time data of greenhouse gas production by integrating atmospheric modeling with a dense, surface-based observation network of anthropogenic and biogenic tracers.
Ronnie Lipschutz
Research Interests
Testbed Analytics for Renewable Microgrid Systems
This project focuses on the design, deployment and operation of microgrids for on-site renewable power generation.
Understanding Image-based Big Data using Human Computation
This project will enhance machine understanding of big image and video data sets by including human input as sub-routines inside of larger computational systems.
Proactive Legal Information Retrieval and Filtering
This research will assist citizens in accessing legal texts in a way that will simplify the process and make the retrieved data more relevant and timely.
Rashomon Project
Online tools for assembling multi-perspective chronologies
Metal-semiconductor Nano-hybrid Platforms for Thermoelectric Power Generation
A collaboration among UC Santa Cruz, Davis, and Merced to develop novel functional material platforms for thermoelectric power generators.
Making Great Ideas Into Great Devices
CITRIS is about more than just cranking out brilliant ideas; our mission is to see those ideas bear fruit in the real world.