Camille Crittenden, Ph.D. serves as Deputy Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Director of the CITRIS Connected Communities Initiative, and Executive Director of the […]
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City of Vallejo Releases Collaboration Tool For Participatory Budgeting
The City of Vallejo has unveiled a new online community collaboration platform for Participatory Budgeting (PB). The customized platform, AppCivist, was developed by the Social […]
Art Rosenfeld, California’s Godfather of Energy Efficiency, Dies at 90
Art Rosenfeld, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Distinguished Scientist Emeritus who is also known as California’s “godfather” of energy efficiency and who has […]
Why It’s So Hard For Robots To Get A Grip
Ken Goldberg, director of the People and Robots Initiative of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, heads up a research team working on robotic grasping abilities, […]
Groupe INSEEC partners with CITRIS Foundry to expand entrepreneurship opportunities
The CITRIS Foundry has recently partnered with Groupe INSEEC, a renowned business school and research center based in France.
CITRIS announces recipients of the inaugural Athena Awards for Women in Technology
To recognize the accomplishments of technology leaders and organizations fostering interest in computer science for the next generation of women and girls, CITRIS and the […]
Apply to the CITRIS Foundry by September 25, 2016
Applications for the fall 2016 cohort are due by Sept. 25.
Job Opportunity: Pacific Research Platform (PRP) Development Specialist
Job Title: Specialist – CITRIS – College of EngineeringLocation: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CAOpen Date: August 11, 2016Next review date: September 23, 2016. Apply by this […]
Job Opportunity: Senior Developer for Crowdsourcing App
Help build awesome web apps like Label This! for CITRIS Social Apps Lab and UC Davis Library as a Senior Developer. Job Title: Manager, Digital […]
Motherhood and Raspberry Pi: Challenges for Mothers in Technology
The lack of gender diversity in technology fields has become a hot topic of late, for good reason. Women and girls are under-represented in computer […]
Job Opportunity: Development Coordinator
CITRIS Development Coordinator at UC Berkeley Job Title: Development Coordinator (6298U) Job #21467Location: Main Campus-BerkeleyPart-Time or Full-Time: Full-Time Regular/Temporary: Temporary Apply on the UC Berkeley Jobs […]
Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Scholar with Pacific Research Platform
CITRIS seeks a postdoctoral researcher to participate as a member of CITRIS’s Pacific Research Platform team. CITRIS Postdoctoral Scholar – CITRIS – College of Engineering, […]
CITRIS Mobile App Challenge begins January 21
Each spring, teams of students will develop mobile software applications and the business models needed to prepare them for the marketplace in the Mobile App […]
Big Ideas Finalists Announced in “IT for Society” 2016 Competition
CITRIS is delighted to have six innovative finalists in the IT for Society category of the 2015-2016 Big Ideas at Berkeley competition, which provides funding, […]
BeVisible: Latinas in Startups – Dec. 2
Interested in the tech industry, entrepreneurship, and making tech inclusive for women and underrepresented groups in tech? Join BeVisible, FEM Tech Berkeley, and CITRIS for […]
Free workshop: Learn to build cognitive apps with IBM Bluemix and Watson on Nov. 17
Come learn how you can rapidly prototype and build cognitive apps in the cloud using IBM tools — specifically IBM Watson Services on the Watson/Bluemix platform. […]
Join us for CITRIS Foundry Demo Day on Dec. 9, 2015
The CITRIS Foundry is hosting a Demo Day on December 9th to celebrate the graduation of our Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 cohorts. The Demo […]
Looking for a rewarding student job? CITRIS Foundry is hiring
The CITRIS Foundry is seeking a UC Berkeley student to fill an open Student Assistant position. The CITRIS Foundry helps innovators and entrepreneurs from the […]
Dash Robotics Launches Kamigami Robots on Kickstarter
One of the first projects to come through the CITRIS Foundry — Dash Robotics — created a low-cost “origami” robot that runs fast on six […]
Creating a National Innovation Ecosystem with Dr. Don Millard from NSF
Dr. Don Millard will speak at 2:15 pm on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 in Room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley This talk is sponsored […]
Big Ideas Innovation Contest opens September 8
Big Ideas is an innovation contest that provides funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of undergraduate and graduate students who have ‘big ideas.’ Since […]
Meet the new 2015 NanoLab Summer Internship Program graduates
The NanoLab Summer Internship Program provides young women in high school with the first-hand experience of working inside a UC Berkeley lab. Congratulations to Anjali, […]
Enduring Summer’s Deep Freeze
Summer’s Deep Freeze: New York Times reporter Kate Murphy discusses over-air-conditioned offices and apps like Comfy which let users control the temperature of their offices. […]
Happy National Week of Making
Reposted from Berkeley Engineering | 6/17/2015 To mark the National Week of Making 2015, a handful of Berkeley engineers participated in the National Maker Faire […]