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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]