Highlighting the cross-disciplinary aspects of resilience, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), and […]
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CITRIS Foundry partners with LAUNCH Festival 2015, March 2-4
The CITRIS Foundry is excited to be a Media Partner of this year’s LAUNCH Festival, one of the largest startup and entrepreneurship events in the country. The festival […]
México Participa: A new online civic engagement platform for the people of Mexico
Mexican citizens will go to the polls in June 2015 for important mid-term elections. To engage voters and alert them to topical issues, the CITRIS […]
Sensor Journalism Webinar Series kicks off today
Join The Open Knowledge Cast at 5pm ET tonight for a special conversation on Hangouts with Fergus Pitt from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism […]
Finalists Announced in Open Data for Development 2015 Competition
We are delighted to have three finalists in the Open Data for Development category of the 2014-2015 Big Ideas@Berkeley competition, which provides funding, support, and […]
Co-Founder of Tesla Motors speaks at Berkeley Innovators Series
Speaking to an audience of over 250 people, Marc Tarpenning CS’85, Co-Founder & Former VP of Electrical Engineering of Tesla Motors, shared his experience as […]
UC Merced Water Project Rewarded with Competitive UC Grant
CITRIS Researcher Roger Bales has won a UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) award for the UC Water Security and Sustainability Research Initiative, which […]
Berkeley Entrepreneurs’ Expo Attracts 20 Organizations
The Berkeley Entrepreneurs’ Expo was Friday, 1/30 from 12-4pm in Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley. Berkeley has become the epicenter of ‘creative destruction’ in the […]
Job Opportunity: CITRIS Program Analyst
CITRIS Program Analyst at UC Merced Job Category: Managerial/ProfessionalUnit: Office of ResearchPosition Code: SOR5784A The University of California, Merced is the newest and tenth campus […]
Chancellor Dirks and EVCP Steele Visit the Marvell NanoLab and CITRIS Invention Lab
UC Berkeley’s Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele visited the Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory and CITRIS Invention Lab today, December 19th, 2014. NanoLab […]
Managing Local Power
Multi-disciplinary study examines how individuals make decisions about electric power use in an effort to match demand and supply in campus micro-grids by Gordy Slack […]
CITRIS Signal Newsletter: Bits Add Up
Dear Friends of CITRIS: CITRIS is a high-performance, high-energy organization, and we are pleased to feature two projects demonstrating this theme. The first confirms a […]
Students Demo Final Projects for Interactive Device Design and User Interface Design
This semester, students in the UC Berkeley Interactive Device Design class (CS294-84/ME290U) spent 14 weeks designing, prototyping, and fabricating novel wireless smart products in the CITRIS Invention Lab. […]
New Discovery Opens Door For Radical Reduction in Energy Consumed by Digital Devices
Direct Observation of Negative Capacitance in Ferroelectric Material Reported by CITRIS Engineers and Materials Scientists at UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA (December 15, 2014) – An article […]
Announcing the CITRIS Foundry Cohort for Fall 2014
This past month marked several milestones at the at the CITRIS Foundry. We co-hosted Cal Hacks, received international visitors, held our CITRIS retreat at UC Merced, hosted the final week of […]
Paul Gray Joins CITRIS Advisory Board
CITRIS is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul R. Gray has joined the CITRIS Advisory Board. As a faculty member at UC Berkeley for more […]
Remote Agricultural UAV Sensing wins 2014 CITRIS Sustainability Award at UC Davis.
The Remote Agricultural UAV Sensing project has won the 2014 CITRIS Sustainability Award at UC Davis. Led by Aerospace Engineering undergraduate students Robert Arlen, Guillermo […]
IBM’s Spohrer Joins the CITRIS Advisory Board
CITRIS is delighted to welcome Dr. James Spohrer to our Advisory Board. Spohrer is the worldwide Director for IBM’s University Programs and Director of IBM’s […]
Count Me In: Walking and the City event on urban mobility
During the Fall 2014, a team of 17 graduate students and two professors worked with the city of San Leandro to develop digital tools to […]
Human Impacts Bay Area: Innovations for the Climate Breakthrough
Join us for an evening of engaging discussion from a diversity of Bay Area’s community leaders, thinkers, and artists. This event will be free and […]
Napa Earthquake Briefing Video Now Available
Video of the September 15, 2014, reconnaissance briefing of preliminary observations from the South Napa Earthquake of August 24, 2014 is now online. The event […]
CITRIS Awards Prizes for Inaugural CalHacks
CalHacks debuted on October 3, 2014, as the largest collegiate hackathon in the nation. The first event of its kind in the Bay Area, more […]
Bilingual “California Report Card” Launches on National Voter Registration Day
Berkeley, CA (September 23, 2014) — On National Voter Registration Day, a new version of the California Report Card (http://californiareportcard.org/ ) is being launched to […]
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 […]