CITRIS is delighted to have six innovative finalists in the IT for Society category of the 2015-2016 Big Ideas at Berkeley competition, which provides funding, […]
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QuakeCAFE: A mobile wake-up call for Californians
BERKELEY – No one likes to be reminded that there’s a 99.7% chance that California will experience a major earthquake in the next 30 years. […]
Apply for the 2016 CITRIS Seed Funding Opportunities (Deadline: Jan. 31, 2016)
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is a multi-campus institute within the University of California charged with creating information […]
BeVisible: Latinas in Startups – Dec. 2
Interested in the tech industry, entrepreneurship, and making tech inclusive for women and underrepresented groups in tech? Join BeVisible, FEM Tech Berkeley, and CITRIS for […]
Free workshop: Learn to build cognitive apps with IBM Bluemix and Watson on Nov. 17
Come learn how you can rapidly prototype and build cognitive apps in the cloud using IBM tools — specifically IBM Watson Services on the Watson/Bluemix platform. […]
Finally, a one-stop shop for locating California’s fishes
Reposted from California WaterBlog | Nov. 8, 2015 | By Nick Santos “Where?” The question is foundational to conservation biology and policy. To take a […]
Join us for CITRIS Foundry Demo Day on Dec. 9, 2015
The CITRIS Foundry is hosting a Demo Day on December 9th to celebrate the graduation of our Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 cohorts. The Demo […]
Looking for a rewarding student job? CITRIS Foundry is hiring
The CITRIS Foundry is seeking a UC Berkeley student to fill an open Student Assistant position. The CITRIS Foundry helps innovators and entrepreneurs from the […]
CITRIS Day 2015 Highlights
The inaugural CITRIS Day on October 13, 2015, delivered timely panel discussions and keynote talks, and the videos are now online. Please also enjoy the […]
Dash Robotics Launches Kamigami Robots on Kickstarter
One of the first projects to come through the CITRIS Foundry — Dash Robotics — created a low-cost “origami” robot that runs fast on six […]
DOE selects UC Berkeley to lead U.S.-China energy and water consortium
CITRIS Merced campus director Joshua Viers is participating as a campus principal investigator (PI) lead in the new CERC-WET consortium. CITRIS PI Jay Lund is also engaged […]
Creating a National Innovation Ecosystem with Dr. Don Millard from NSF
Dr. Don Millard will speak at 2:15 pm on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 in Room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley This talk is sponsored […]
Join us for CITRIS Day 2015 on October 13
In celebration of our 15th anniversary, we highlight activities core to our mission: bringing innovative methods, insights, and tools from the classroom to the marketplace […]
Researchers Gathering Data to Tackle California’s Water Crisis on Multiple Fronts
Reposted from Sierra Sun Times | by Joel Patenaude | September 25, 2015 California, long envied by the rest of the country for its climate, beauty […]
Big Ideas@Berkeley competition open: student funding competition
The 2015-2016 Big Ideas@Berkeley contest is now open. Big Ideas@Berkeley is an annual contest aimed at providing funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of […]
Going With the Flow of Data
Scientific data like that being produced by UC Merced researchers will ultimately provide a means to a more sustainable future. “Going with the Flow of […]
Big Ideas Innovation Contest opens September 8
Big Ideas is an innovation contest that provides funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of undergraduate and graduate students who have ‘big ideas.’ Since […]
Meet the new 2015 NanoLab Summer Internship Program graduates
The NanoLab Summer Internship Program provides young women in high school with the first-hand experience of working inside a UC Berkeley lab. Congratulations to Anjali, […]
Five Questions for Dr. Kenneth Loh, New Director of CITRIS at UC Davis
Since his appointment in July 2015 as the new UC Davis campus director for CITRIS, Dr. Kenneth Loh has been actively recruiting students for CITRIS projects, promoting […]
Evaluating California water management options
By Jenny Ta and Joshua Viers | Reposted from http://californiawaterblog.com It seems inevitable that increasing numbers of California farmers will see their claims to surface […]
Enduring Summer’s Deep Freeze
Summer’s Deep Freeze: New York Times reporter Kate Murphy discusses over-air-conditioned offices and apps like Comfy which let users control the temperature of their offices. […]
UC research in 2014 leads to 1,796 inventions, 86 startups
The University of California released Thursday a technology report on innovation and funding throughout the UC system. According to the 2014 Technology Commercialization Report, there […]
Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet
A series of ultra-high-speed fiber-optic cables will weave a cluster of West Coast university laboratories and supercomputer centers into a network called the Pacific Research […]
Kenneth Loh appointed new CITRIS Director at UC Davis
CITRIS is delighted to announce that Dr. Kenneth Loh, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, will serve as CITRIS campus director […]