A Memorial Service for Dr. Gary Baldwin, Director of Special Projects, CITRIS @ Berkeley will be held in Palo Alto on Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 2:30pm
CITRIS
Bioengineering Advances for Economically Disadvantaged Societies
This talk will present scientific breakthroughs such as the use of cellular phone for medical imaging in small clinics and rural areas, detecting internal bleeding remotely in rural areas through multi-frequency spectroscopy, a simple electrolytic means for low power electricity, using classifiers to augment lack of expert medical care in rural areas, treatment of cancer in rural clinics and others.
i4Energy Seminar: Smart Grid Development at SMUD
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is committed to advancing smart grid technologies in its service territory. Last year SMUD was awarded $127.5 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to advance smart grid implementation by several years.
TRUST Security Seminar: Coordination and Control of Distributed Energy Resources for Provision of Ancillary Services
On the distribution side of a power system, there exist many distributed energy resources (DERs) that can be potentially used to provide ancillary services to the grid they are connected to. An example is the utilization of power electronics grid interfaces commonly used in distributed generation to provide reactive power support. While the primary function of these power electronics-based systems is to control active power flow, when properly controlled, they can also be used to provide reactive power support.
Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas at Berkeley: Student-Led Innovation is Changing the World
John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost and the Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. He is the former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
New Media RoundTable: A Variation on the Powers of Ten, Futurefarmers
Futurefarmers’ Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine are currently working on a new project for the Berkeley Art Museum. This new project, A Variation on the Powers of Ten, uses the opening scene of the 1977, Charles and Ray Eames film to frame ten discussions with a diverse range of researchers.
Research Exchange: Research to Further Education
As a nation, over half of our students fail Algebra every year. Agile Mind was founded with the mission of changing what happens between educators and students in the classroom in ways that improve the quality of instruction of high school mathematics and science, especially in underserved areas.
Dr. Gary Baldwin dies at 67
Dr. Gary Baldwin, Director of Special Projects, CITRIS @ Berkeley, passed away on November 16, 2010, after a short battle with cancer.
ATC Lecture: Architectural Communication in the Knowledge Economy, Jeffrey Inaba
As cities become knowledge-intensive economies, urban planning requires them to weigh the importance of inherently dissimilar activities, such as digital vs physical and economic vs non-economic.
i4Energy Seminar: The Role of Demand Response in Renewables Integration
This talk addresses the challenge of integrating variable and uncertain renewable electricity sources into the grid, and focuses on what demand-side resources and energy storage can do to address these challenges.
EECS Colloquium: Feedback Motion Planning with Sum-of-Squares Verification
In this talk, I will present a nonlinear feedback control synthesis algorithm which combines randomized motion planning algorithms, popular in robotics, with sum of squares optimization. In order to drive the system to a goal state or limit cycle, the algorithm systematically populates the controllable subset of state space with a sparse set of trajectories which are locally stabilized with linear feedback and verified with sums of squares; we have now developed efficient methods for performing this verification along trajectories and around limit cycles, on systems with hybrid dynamics, and on systems with mixed polynomial/trigonometric nonlinearities.
Research Exchange: Ten Myths of ICT for International Development
The past decade has seen incredible interest in applying information and communication technologies for international development, an endeavor often abbreviated “ICT4D.”
i4Energy Seminar: What’s so good about the Smart Grid – A Look at Renewables
As serious environmental issues become part of dinner conversation, utilities are faced with not only technology upgrades, but also dealing with new systemic impact that occur behind the meter.
Rebuilding Safe, Satisfactory, and Sustainable Houses After Earthquakes
Build Change is a non-profit social enterprise that designs earthquake-resistant houses in developing countries and trains builders, homeowners, engineers, and government officials to build them.
TRUST Security Seminar: Electronic Voting Security in India
India uses paperless electronic voting machines (EVMs) nationwide, and the Election Commission of India, the country’s highest election authority, has long maintained that the machines are “perfect,” “infallible,” and “fully tamper-proof.”
New Media RoundTable: Student Research Panel, Caitlin Marshall and William Brown III
Caitlin Marshall’s larger research focuses on voice prosthesis and synthesis, minority discourse, and the sound of civics. Each year in America ten to twelve thousand individuals undergo cancer treatment necessitating laryngectomy, the surgical removal of the larynx. With their sound sources removed, laryngectomees are rendered mute. To counter what many patients describe as the disability of silence, nearly all opt for prosthesis and speech therapy.
From Point to Pixel: Digitising Colour, Texture Shape and Size
The advent of image and laser based systems have increased the profile of photometric and geometric (colour, texture, shape and size) data capture, particularly in the 21st century.
Research Exchange: Formal Methods for Dependable Computing: From Models, through Software, to Circuits
Computing has become ubiquitous and indispensable: it is embedded all around us, in cell phones, automobiles, medical devices, and much more. This ubiquity brings with it a growing challenge to ensure that our computing infrastructure is also dependable and secure. We need to develop and maintain complex software systems on top of increasingly unreliable computing substrates under stringent resource constraints such as energy usage.
i4Energy seminar schedule for the fall 2010 semester
Learn more about the exciting talks on energy efficiency this semester at CITRIS
Research Exchange schedule for the fall
The fall series is now available.
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.