CITRIS is delighted to have seven finalists in the IT for Society category of the 2014-2015 Big Ideas@Berkeley competition, which provides funding, support, and encouragement […]
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CITRIS Alumnus Receives Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award for Ph.D. on Transportation Cybersecurity
Reilly Awarded Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award for Ph.D. on Transportation Cybersecurity Congratulations to Jack Reilly, one of the original doctoral candidates to conduct research from […]
Managing Local Power
Multi-disciplinary study examines how individuals make decisions about electric power use in an effort to match demand and supply in campus micro-grids by Gordy Slack […]
Finding Hidden Joules
Ferroelectric material could help the arc of Moore’s Law reach new heights and radically reduce energy consumed by digital devices by Gordy Slack For the […]
CITRIS Signal Newsletter: Bits Add Up
Dear Friends of CITRIS: CITRIS is a high-performance, high-energy organization, and we are pleased to feature two projects demonstrating this theme. The first confirms a […]
Seed Funds Awarded to Three U.S.-Mexico Research Teams
CITRIS is pleased to announce that three innovative proposals have been selected to receive joint seed funding grants from Tecnológico de Monterrey and CITRIS. The winning proposals represent the […]
Remote Agricultural UAV Sensing wins 2014 CITRIS Sustainability Award at UC Davis.
The Remote Agricultural UAV Sensing project has won the 2014 CITRIS Sustainability Award at UC Davis. Led by Aerospace Engineering undergraduate students Robert Arlen, Guillermo […]
IBM’s Spohrer Joins the CITRIS Advisory Board
CITRIS is delighted to welcome Dr. James Spohrer to our Advisory Board. Spohrer is the worldwide Director for IBM’s University Programs and Director of IBM’s […]
IBM visits CITRIS
Two IBM executives recently visited CITRIS to review ongoing projects with IBM and campus researchers. James Spohrer, worldwide Director for IBM’s University Programs and Director […]
Distributed Infrastructure of Small Urban Places
A digital tool helps coordinate unused parcels of urban public land to alleviate the need for expensive infrastructure projects, revive depressed and blighted neighborhoods, and […]
Text Spotting: Helping Blind Persons Read Signs
Text Spotting aims to understand how a blind person can access information about the environment using mobile vision “It is easy—and dangerous—for the blind to […]
Improving Access to Public Resources for Everyone
The work of CITRIS researchers on all four of our campuses reflects a similar commitment to improving access to public resources for everyone. Dear Friends […]
Big Ideas competition now open to all CITRIS campuses
What’s Your Big Idea? The 2014-2015 Big Ideas at Berkeley contest is now open! Big Ideas at Berkeley is an annual innovation contest that provides […]
5 Questions with CITRIS Deputy Director Camille Crittenden
The Center for Data Innovation recently published an interview with CITRIS Deputy Director Camille Crittenden discussing new and ongoing research and our emerging work in […]
Bringing Building Automation to Small and Mid-Size Commercial Properties
The information technology revolution has come slowly to commercial buildings. Until now, piecemeal innovations in automating isolated functions like temperature, security, lighting, and air quality […]
ABC News coverage of Dengue Torpedo Crowdsourcing Game from Social Apps Lab
CITRIS Social Apps Lab director, James Holston, featured in this ABC News Bay Area article and video for his project Dengue Torpedo, a cell phone app […]
“Let’s amplify California’s collective intelligence”: op-ed by Ken Goldberg and Gavin Newsom
by Gavin Newsom and Ken GoldbergPublished 5:59 pm, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, www.sfgate.com Although the results of last week’s primary election are still being certified, we […]
3rd Annual CITRIS at UC Merced Mobile App Challenge Winners
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 […]
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 […]