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As biotech booms, so do bacteria
by Saemmool Lee Applying new tech solutions for stubborn health care challenges is big business. At the CITRIS Foundry, in-house startup accelerator of CITRIS and […]
UAV experts present the latest in drone tech
by Saemmool Lee Drone researchers and entrepreneurs presented emerging Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies, services, and policies at the Drones: Technology, Policy, and Society conference […]
Job Opportunity: Administrative Specialist
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Indonesia tsunami’s power surprises scientists
“It’s heartbreaking when you know the technology is there,” says CITRIS Policy Lab affiliate scholar Louise Comfort, who has been working to bring new tsunami sensors […]
Job Opportunity: CITRIS Policy Lab Director
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Superhighway for data-intensive science
To accelerate discoveries in data-intensive fields, such as particle physics, astronomy, and biomedical sciences, researchers require high-performance network connections to reliably transfer large datasets. The Pacific Research Platform (PRP) creates a high-speed “freeway system” that “reduces the time for transferring and analyzing data from weeks to days to minutes,” according to Camille Crittenden, deputy director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and co-principal investigator for the PRP project.
How immigrants will respond to anti-immigrant victory at the E.U.
Berkeley Law professor Katerina Linos writes in the Washington Post about how immigrants are likely to respond to the anti-immigrant decision at the E.U., based on research she co-led […]
Big names in AI vow not to create weapons
The Verge: Tech leaders, including Elon Musk and the three co-founders of Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind, have signed a pledge promising to not develop lethal […]
UC Davis launches Drone Academy for high-schoolers
This year, UC Davis launched a week-long inaugural Summer Drone Academy program for high-schoolers from groups underrepresented in STEM fields, with help from CITRIS and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Job Opportunity: Women in Technology Program Director
Join us in advocating for inclusion in technology. We’re hiring a Program Director for our Women in Technology Initiative.
A Radical New Standard in AI
Deferring to human preference and other proposals from internationally renowned AI pioneer and CITRIS researcher Stuart Russell.
How robot hands are evolving to do what ours can
This interactive feature describes the handiwork of the Autolab of Ken Goldberg, director of the CITRIS People and Robots Initiative.
Corps interns advancing sustainable energy solutions
Berkeley chemistry major Priscilla Zhang is one of 13 undergraduates conducting hands-on research this summer as part of the Cal Energy Corps, an internship program now housed in CITRIS.
SafelyYou: Using AI to detect and prevent falls
SafelyYou, a startup emanating from CITRIS seed-funding, uses AI-enabled camera systems to detect, in real time, falls of individuals with dementia.
SimCenter Releases Four New Educational and Research Tools
The NHERI SimCenter has just released three research tools and its third educational tool that support natural hazards engineering.
Young summer interns design and create in CITRIS Invention Lab
The CITRIS Invention Lab has launched a summer internship program for junior high and high school students. From mid-June to early August, nine students from California schools are spending two weeks designing and creating in the 1700-sf makerspace on the first floor of Sutardja Dai Hall.
Job Opportunity: CITRIS Director of Development
Apply for the CITRIS Director of Development opportunity at UC Berkeley.
Tsu-Jae King Liu named new dean of Berkeley Engineering
The UC Berkeley College of Engineering has named Tsu-Jae King Liu its new dean, the first woman to hold that position and among only 60 […]
White House summit: CITRIS a voice for ‘trustworthy’ AI
On May 10, the White House convened 100 national leaders in industry, tech, government, and academia for a summit on the potential of artificial intelligence […]
CITRIS showcases student Tech for Social Good
At a showcase in April at the Banatao Auditorium, undergraduate and graduate students presented their work developing novel tech ideas, addressing issues from gait impairment in the elderly and robots for disaster relief to connecting refugees to social services.
Irrigation robots could help grow wine grapes in California
Faced with shortages of water and workers, winemakers are working with CITRIS researchers at UC Merced and UC Berkeley on a robot-assisted precision irrigation delivery system that uses machines to monitor and adjust water emitters
Drones for Sustainability
In its first annual student video competition, UCTV’s CITRIS-seeded “Sustainable California” channel awarded first place to a trilingual Berkeley graduate student team production about using UAVs for mapping and ecological monitoring.
How to interact with robots without embarrassing yourself
“All these robots suffer from the same challenge: they need to anticipate,” says CITRIS researcher Anca Dragan. Doctoral students working with CITRIS Sustainable Infrastructures director […]