Five years ago, CITRIS launched the first makerspace on the UC Berkeley campus: the CITRIS Invention Lab. This fall, the CITRIS Invention Lab is announcing its […]
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Global Lives Project Exhibit at the CITRIS Tech Museum
Check out the latest exhibit in the CITRIS Tech Museum: The Global Lives Project The Global Lives Project Exhibit is a video library of the […]
UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ Tours CITRIS Facilities
On June 16, 2017, UC Berkeley Chancellor-Designate Carol T. Christ visited CITRIS and learned about our labs and programs. CITRIS welcomed UC Berkeley Chancellor-Designate Carol […]
Big Ideas Competition 2017 IT for Society Category Winners Announced
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute are pleased to announce four winners in the ‘IT for Society’ category of the annual Big Ideas competition. This category […]
DataEDGE 2017: A New Vision For Data Science
The DataEDGE conference at UC Berkeley brings together senior industry and academic leaders for a conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise […]
UC Berkeley Undergraduates Win Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
WheelSense: An Open-Source Smart Add-On System for Wheelchairs Tomás Vega and Corten Singer both describe themselves as being “passionate about assistive technology,” which is designed […]
AppCivist project wins Chancellor’s Award for Public Service
The AppCivist project of the Social Apps Lab at CITRIS (Connected Communities Initiative) in partnership with Inria, led by Professor James Holston, has won the 2016-17 Chancellor’s Award for […]
UC Water Challenge Grant Initiative: Request for Proposals
UC Water supports water research across the UC system as a network of scholars, students, and partners. To engage new investigators and to increase the […]
Launching new Berkeley Certificate in Design Innovation
The Certificate in Design Innovation introduces design as the creative and critical means to innovate — to define, to imagine, and to advance a globally […]
UC Berkeley, power company Enel launch innovation hub
A new CITRIS partnership with Enel is a promising step towards increasing innovation at the University of California. Berkeley News, March 7, 2017 – The […]
Inria@SiliconValley Interviews CITRIS Deputy Director Camille Crittenden
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 […]
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. The INSEEC Group has established a […]
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
Founding a Startup is Hard. We Can Help. Application Deadline is September 25 at 11:59 PM The CITRIS Foundry is the University of California accelerator for […]
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, […]