One of the world's largest crude oil and gas suppliers, Statoil, has
teamed up with UC Berkeley’s Project Production Systems Laboratory
(P2SL) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to
establish a Mega-projects Research Initiative.
CITRIS
December 2009 Newsletter
CITRIS "shortens the pipeline" between world-class laboratory research in science and engineering and the creation of startups, companies, and …
CITRIS Faculty Weigh in on COP15
On December 7, 2009, representatives of the world’s governments convene
in Copenhagen, Denmark, seeking agreement between nations to regulate
and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after 2012, when the current
treaty, known as the Kyoto Protocol, expires.
CALVIN: Clarifying California’s Old and Murky Water Problems
Professor Jay Lund and colleagues at the UC Davis Center for Watershed
Sciences have developed software to model California's water storage
and distribution system.
Subterranean Solutions: Tracking Groundwater Recharge
UC Santa Cruz Professor Andrew Fisher leads the Recharge Initiative, which focuses
efforts to protect, enhance, and improve the availability and
reliability of ground water resource.
i4energy Seminar Series, Fall 2009 is online
The complete schedule for the new energy seminar series at CITRIS is online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/i4e-fall2009.
CITRIS Research Exchange for the Fall now online
The Fall 2009 schedule for the CITRIS Research Exchange is now online. The talks begin Sept. 2 and will take place in the Banatao Auditorium at Sutardja Dai Hall.
Getting Your Robot On: Wearable Machines’ Intimate Interface
Jacob Rosen has developed a robotic arm controlled by the
electrical signals sent by the brain through the nerves to contract the
muscles – signals known as electromyograph (EMG).
Medical Matchmakers: Startup ComplexDX Helps Specialists Find Hard-to-Diagnose Patients
A new company, which won second-place in this year's Big Ideas contest, works to connect patients with difficult-to-diagnose symptoms with the right specialists.
Javeed Siddiqui Appointed as CITRIS Medical Director
Javeed Siddiqui, M.D was recently appointed as Medical Director of CITRIS. Dr. Siddiqui’s work to advance healthcare access and quality through the use of technology has made significant contributions to the field. His project management and strategic planning experience in technology advancement will be valuable throughout the CITRIS community.
Data You Can Admire: Kwan-Liu Ma Converts Huge Data Sets into Illuminating Visualizations
Professor Kwan-Liu Ma at
UC Davis takes data sets that can be on the peta or tera scale
and turns them into explorable, workable, and visualizable units
San Quentin computer project wins 2009 Big Ideas
This year's Big Ideas first prize of $13,000 went to the San Quentin All-access computer center project. Read more about it and the other prize winners.
France’s Secretary for Education and Research, Valerie Pecresse, visits CITRIS museum
Secretary Pecresse visited the new CITRIS Tech Museum in Sutardja Dai Hall, where Ph.D. students demonstrated the Mobile Millennium technology for her.
Student Competition 2009: $30K in prizes
CITRIS is proud to announce the fourth annual CITRIS White
Paper competition, which will give away $30K in cash prizes for the best ideas
that demonstrate the ability of IT to address a major societal challenge.
Dedication of new CITRIS headquarters
The newest research facility on the campus of UC Berkeley was dedicated on Friday, Feb. 27, and embodies the innovation and entrepreneurship needed to fuel economic growth and arrives at a time when the state and nation seek relief from the recession. Photos and video
Opening of Sutardja Dai Hall, the new CITRIS headquarters building on the UC Berkeley campus
The new Sutardja Dai Hall at UC Berkeley will serve as the headquarters for CITRIS and the Banatao Institute@CITRIS Berkeley.
Capture of Nanomagnetic ‘Fingerprints’ a Boost for Next-Generation Information Storage Media
A team of physicists at UC Davis has developed a
technique to capture the magnetic “fingerprints” of certain nanostructures —
even when they are buried within the boards and junctions of an electronic
device
CITRIS Research Exchange schedule
The spring semester schedule for the CITRIS Research Exchange is now online.
Theater Performance at the 2008 Holiday Gala is online
The theater performance by Gail de Kosnik and her colleagues at the annual Holiday Gala is now online.
Robots Rush In: In Search-and-Rescue Operations Teamwork is Everything
Rushing into damaged buildings is dangerous and can endanger not
only rescue workers but also the victims they are working to save.
Sending in robots that are equipped with various kinds of sensors to do
reconnaissance is much safer, and these robots can search for signs of
life and report back to waiting operators.
Taming Traffic with Your Phone: The Mobile Millennium Project
Traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area is bad. The Mobile Millennium gathers real-time data to make it better.
Berkeley Computational Science and Engineering NEWS: NERSC made the No. 7 system in TOP500
Berkeley Computational Science and Engineering NEWS: NERSC made the No. 7 system in TOP500, Top Spot on Latest List of World’s TOP500 Supercomputers The No. 7 system, called Franklin, is the second new Cray XT5 system. It is installed at DOE’s NERSC Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and achieved 266.3 Tflop/s.
Presentations from TIER workshop
Presentations from the recent TIER workshop are now online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/TIER.
Check your carbon footprint at CoolClimate Calculator
The CoolClimate Calculator (http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu) has been developed by researchers at the Berkeley Institute of the Environment to help US households evaluate their complete climate footprints, including all direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, household energy, food, goods and services.