CITRIS was recently awarded a $2.3 million U.S. Department of Energy American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) contract to develop a Distributed Intelligent Automated Demand Response (DIADR) management system for buildings. The purpose of the research is to achieve 30% peak demand reduction while still maintaining the building as a healthy, productive, and comfortable environment for the building occupants.
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Job Opportunity: Associate Director of Development
CITRIS is hiring for the position Associate Director of Development, Corporate & Foundation Relations.
CITRIS to help build sustainability toolkit for California
CITRIS, in collaboration with Calit2 and the Institute for the Future, has launched a project aimed at developing a sustainable future for California over the next ten years and beyond. The diverse group of researchers will produce a comprehensive roadmap of key issues facing California.
Read EarthTimes article.
Application to Access to Siemens CAD/CAM/CED: NX Software
The Siemens corporation has made a generous donation of industrial
software to UC Berkeley. The attached documents provide details on the
software and an application (process) to obtain access to it. The
software will soon be installed on the CITRIS server. In addition, you
can also install the software locally in your lab (on your local
server). There are a total of 50 licenses and it is possible to
allocate multiple licenses to groups within your group. In addition to
the attached documentation, the following website has further information:
CITRIS Chief Scientist Thomas Nesbitt Receives Leadership Award
Thomas Nesbitt, CITRIS Chief Scientist and associate vice chancellor for strategic technologies and alliances for UC Davis Health System, has received the 2010 Leadership Award for the Advancement of Telemedicine from the American Telemedicine Association.
CITRIS Newsletter Online
The CITRIS Newsletter (May 2010) focuses on art and technology: algorithms to depict thousands of opinions on several issues in one simple, two-dimensional animated illustration; and enabling computer animations to express themselves more richly.
John Holdren speaks at the 17th Annual Lecture on Energy and the Environment
John P. Holdren, speaking at the UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group – The 17th Annual Lecture on Energy and the Environment, presented "Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being." John Holdren is Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, Assistant to the President of Science and Technology.
UC Berkeley team wins PR2 Robot
After an intense competition, a UC Berkeley team located on the 7th floor of the CITRIS Headquarters Building was awarded with a PR2 robot. The team, led by Pieter Abbeel, will continue developing open source code for robotics.
Sutardja Dai Hall: An Award-Winning Building
Sutardja Dai Hall, the headquarters building for CITRIS at UC Berkeley, has only been open for one year and has already won several awards.
Message from Director Jeff Wright
CITRIS@UCMerced continues its ground-breaking research driven by the goal of bringing computational innovation to bear to societal problems. Recent breakthroughs include improved technologies and methodologies for forecasting solar resources; new sensors for environmental monitoring and assessment; intelligent autonomous systems to assist humans in difficulty situations such as first-response rescue operations; enhanced energy management and controls in buildings; expanded capabilities for monitoring our nations water resources; improved technologies supporting SmartGRID development; and much more. Technologies that will serve the people and commercial enterprise of California… Jeff Wright Director: CITRIS@UCMerced jwright@citris-uc.org
CITRIS Big Ideas winners for 2010
This year, CITRIS awarded seven student-led proposals a total of $30,000 in prize money at the April 22 poster session for our annual White Paper competition.
Recipients announced for BCNM Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Grants
UC’s Berkeley Center for New Media announces the recipients of the 2010 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Grants. The grantees are a diverse group of graduate students whose research range from public health to videogames.
Dan Kammen appointed first clean energy fellow to Western Hemisphere
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has named Daniel
Kammen of the University of California, Berkeley, a Senior Energy
and Climate
Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) Fellow to advise our neighbors in the
Western
Hemisphere on clean energy issues as of April 15.
Composting in Sutardja Dai Hall
The Banatao Institute and the Building Sustainability at Cal Program have teamed up to implement UC Berkeley’s first building-wide composting program, which launched on April 6, 2010.
CITRIS newsletter about Marvell Lab
The April newsletter is online and focuses on the happenings of the Marvell Nanolab.
CITRIS Junior Fellow/Postdoctoral Scholar Opening
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley has an immediate opening for CITRIS Junior Fellow/Postdoctoral Scholar in the area of telemedicine and healthcare technologies.
Eric Brewer wins ACM-Infosys Foundation Award for scalable Web technology
CITRIS researcher Eric Brewer,
professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the
University of California, Berkeley, is the 2009 recipient of the
ACM-Infosys
Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences, a prestigious honor that
comes with
a $150,000 prize.
BCNM and U.S. State Department announce collaboration
Opinion Space is a visualization tool for world opinion developed by an
interdisciplinary team of students and faculty at the UC Berkeley Center
for New Media in collaboration with new media experts at the U.S.
Department of State.
NSF awards $24.5 million for center to stem increase of electronics power draw
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $24.5 million to researchers
at the University of California, Berkeley, to head an ambitious,
multi-institutional center that could one day lead to a million-fold reduction
in power consumption by electronics.
Interview about India Eye Care Hospitals discuss TIER work
Dr. Aravind from Aravind Eye Hospitals was interviewed recently and
discussed TIER's role in setting up the vision centers. The largest and
the most productive eye care facility in the world, it sees over 1.4
million patients and performs over 200,000 sight restoring surgeries
each year. Two-thirds of its services, are free.
February Newsletter is online
The latest CITRIS newsletter is now online, witha story about a micro-robot made of paperboard and off-the-shelf electronics that could assist in recovery from natural disasters, and an interview with Greg Niemeyer, who creates games that can help engage people with serious issues, particularly that of climate change.
i4Energy Center in the News
CITRIS, the i4Energy Center, and the Climate Energy Policy Institute (CEPI) are featured in current article in the UC Berkeley News.
CITRIS Research Exchange schedule for Spring 2010 is now online
The spring schedule for the Research Exchange can be found at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-spring2010
Groundbreaking for California Telehealth Resource Center
UC Davis physicians, nurses and administrative leaders gathered Friday, Jan. 15, to mark the official groundbreaking for the new California Telehealth Resource Center on the grounds of the university’s Sacramento campus. The four-story, $36 million building is designed to enhance and complement UC Davis’ expertise in the field of telehealth, which is the use of high-speed telecommunications for medical services. Read the full article.