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Research Exchange: Automatic Speech Recognition at 60: Old and Immature
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.
i4Energy Seminar: How We Do It: The UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center’s Model for Making a Difference
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.
Research Exchange: Leveraging Machine-learning and Crowdsourcing to Process Text Messages in the world’s Less-resourced Language
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.
Research Exchange: Innovation in the Health Care Enterprise
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.
October 2010 Newsletter
This newsletter covers the recent SCHEME meeting to promote collaborations of engineers, doctors, and health administrators; and the Teleimmersion for Physicians project
Research Exchange: Opinion Space: Using Dimensionality Reduction to Visualize Public Opinion and Crowdsource Insights
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.
Research Exchange: Invasion of the Digital World in Art, Entertainment, Social Media and More
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.
Research Exchange: The Google Book Settlement as Copyright Reform
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.
Workshop: Enabling Technologies Development Project
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.
Scientific Colloquium for Healthcare, Engineering and Medicine (SCHEME III)
This session is the next one in our series of bringing together clinicians and medical researchers to discuss possible research collaborations.
Scientific Colloquium for Healthcare, Engineering and Medicine (SCHEME III)
This session is the next one in our series of bringing together clinicians and medical researchers to discuss possible research collaborations.
Parallel Computing Short Course at UC Berkeley
This three-day hands-on short course on Parallel Computing will have have added lectures on parallel debugging and verification techniques.
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.
Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy, Lake Tahoe
Moving Sustainable Technologies Out of the Lab and into the World
Job Opportunity: Associate Director of Development
CITRIS is hiring for the position Associate Director of Development, Corporate & Foundation Relations.
CITRIS Chief Scientist Thomas Nesbitt Receives Leadership Award
Thomas Nesbitt, CITRIS Chief Scientist and associate vice chancellor for strategic technologies and alliances for UC Davis Health System, has received the 2010 Leadership Award for the Advancement of Telemedicine from the American Telemedicine Association.
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.