The CITRIS at UC Merced Mobile App Challenge finals were held on Friday, May 16, 2014. Congratulations to the finalists! Meet the winners below. Crowd […]
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CITRIS in a Nutshell: Innovation, Community, Teamwork, and Social Purpose
Dear Friends of CITRIS, Most issues of the CITRIS Signal focus on new research conducted by our top faculty scientists and engineers. This edition looks […]
The CITRIS Foundry first cohort of graduates
by Gordy Slack The road to start-up success is littered with great ideas. Turning an idea into a prototype, a viable business plan, and an […]
Mobile App Challenge: Inventing Small Ways to Make a Big Difference
Most students aspire to both do well and do good in school. A semester-long app-development competition helped give traction for 50 graduate and undergraduate students […]
Job Opportunity: Front-end Developer for AppCivist
Job Description How can we create an online forum that promotes more democratic assembly and decision-making with less groupthink? For example, how can we design […]
Job Opportunity: Postdoc Researcher
Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research, Service-oriented software platform for social activism Research team Lead Inria Project-Team: ARLES-MiMove (Paris-Rocquencourt) Other Inria Project-teams: MYRIADS (Rennes) and DICE (Lyon) […]
CITRIS Foundry Companies Win at 2014 UC Berkeley Startup Competition (LAUNCH)!
Companies from the CITRIS Foundry were winners in the 2014 UC Berkeley Startup Competition (LAUNCH). LAUNCH is one of the foremost UC Berkeley events for […]
The Foundry Companies Excel at Innovate@Berkeley Startup Expo
For the second year in a row, The Foundry@CITRIS had a strong showing at the Innovate@Berkeley startup competition. Companies from The Foundry represented three out of six finalists (KNOX […]
Translantic Telehealth Research Network
CITRIS is a major partner in an innovative international collaboration in telemedicine and heart disease. In March 2012, Aalborg University (Denmark), CITRIS/UC Davis Health System […]
Cisco eSupport Content Development Project now at CITRIS@Santa Cruz
CITRIS @ Santa Cruz is proud to welcome the Cisco eSupport Content Development Project, the second collaborative internship program in the on-going Network Management and […]
Big Ideas Finalists Compete in Poster Session, April 21
The eight finalists for the 2014 Big Ideas Competition in IT for Society will present at an April 21 poster session at CITRIS from 3-5pm. […]
The CITRIS Foundry Announces the New Cohort of Teams for Spring 2014
Five new teams have recently joined the CITRIS Foundry. Created in 2012, the Foundry helps entrepreneurs build companies that make a significant impact on the […]
UC-Merced, UC-Davis Collaborate on New Virtual Physical Therapy Software
In the not-so-distant future, physical therapy patients could toss their hand outs with stick-figure drawings to the wind and instead do their prescribed exercises in […]
Building the Future of Computational Media
CITRIS researchers Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas have just published the final report of the Media Systems project — including a set of 12 key […]
Q&A with Director Spanos
Professor Costas Spanos became the fourth director of CITRIS on February 1, 2014. He is Andrew S. Grove Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering and […]
News from the Director, March 2014 – “Seeding Our Future”
Dear Friends of CITRIS: First, I want to thank my friend and colleague Paul Wright, and the excellent faculty and staff he has assembled in […]
2014 Seed Funded Projects Announced
CITRIS is pleased to announce that 11 innovative proposals have been selected in this year’s round of seed funding. Each of these proposals is multi-campus […]
Students: It’s time to fill out a report card and put California to the test
Daily Cal publishes op-ed on the California Report Card today.
Costas Spanos Appointed New CITRIS Director
Professor Spanos begins his term as CITRIS Director on February 1, 2014.
Peaceful Apps for a New Generation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Merced’s MESA Lab deploys rugged drones to sample aquatic biodiversity from remote waterways.
Supercharging Our Water-Related Projects
We use water to generate power, to grow half of the nation’s fruits, nuts, and vegetables, to preserve our environment, to prevent wildfires, to make silicon chips…
Snow Net: Joint Berkeley-Merced Snowpack Tracking Project’s Test by Fire
A joint project between UC Berkeley and UC Merced attempts to radically improve the quality and availability of data about the amount of water stored in mountainous parts of the vast American River Basin.
CITRIS Mobile App Challenge 2014
A contest for the best mobile apps that address needs in Healthcare, Energy & Climate, Disaster Preparedness & Response and more.
CITRIS Featured in Recent “Big Data” California Magazine
The effects of the information explosion on the University are increasingly evident.