New partnership between CITRIS and Innovation Center Denmark involves joint conferences and workshops as well as Visiting Scholarships
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NSF’s Edward Seidel discussed Global Cyberinfrastructure on March 17
Modern science is undergoing a profound transformation as it aims to tackle the complex problems of the 21st Century.
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Letter from the Director, Feb. 2011
For the last decade, we at CITRIS have focused our efforts there, developing intelligent technologies that help measure, track, and manage water, energy, and other key resources in innovative ways that benefit the economy, the environment, and our quality of life.
Jeopardy! viewing party at CITRIS a big hit
Hundreds of CITRIS researchers and students gathered at Sutardja Dai Hall on Feb. 16 to watch the game’s finale starring Watson.
CITRIS Research Wins Award
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy’s research in “Tele-Immersion for Physicians” was recently awarded the CENIC 2011 Innovations in Networking Award for High Performance Research Applications.
Closing the Digital Divide: Broadband Deployment and Adoption
Sunne Wright McPeak is the President and CEO of CETF, a statewide non-profit organization whose mission is to close the Digital Divide.
Spring 2011 Research Exchange schedule
The weekly series will begin on Wednesday, January 26
i4energy seminar series for Spring 2011
This weekly Friday lunch series begins again on Jan. 21
December 2010 Newsletter
This newsletter covers CITRIS’s emerging energy-efficiency testbed community
Gary Baldwin Memorial Service on January 16
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
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).
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.
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.”
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.
Research Exchange: Opinion Space: Using Dimensionality Reduction to Visualize Public Opinion and Crowdsource Insights
Opinion is notoriously ill-defined and subject to biases and uncertainty principles. On March 15 2010, the U.S. State Department launched Opinion Space, a visualization tool for world opinion developed by students and colleagues at the UC Berkeley Center for New Media.
Research Exchange: Invasion of the Digital World in Art, Entertainment, Social Media and More
In his talk, Dr. Jacob will take you on a guided tour of what your life could be in the short and long-term future. We are increasingly living in a physical world augmented by the arrival of many digital worlds. When you watch a movie, you don’t know when the real actors are shown on the screen versus wire-framed computer-generated clones.