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.
News
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.
Art Rosenfeld, the ‘godfather’ of energy efficiency, steps down from California Energy Commission
On January 13, Art Rosenfeld stepped down from the California Energy Commission on which he has served for 10 years. Three articles linked below provide a glimpse of his career and significant contributions to energy efficiency. Articles: LA Times, BoingBoing, Mercury News
CITRIS and the New Year 2010
– CITRIS Director Paul Wright delivers a message for the New Year –
CITRIS is a symbol of everything wonderful that the UC system offers
the world in terms of education, research, and service. Several hundred
graduate and undergraduate students on four campuses are funded by the
national and international extra-mural grants that are brought into the
UC system because of CITRIS. Our work covers energy, water, healthcare,
and infrastructures and, by being multi-disciplinary, our students come
from all walks of life.
Application form for Yahoo! Cloud Cluster
Yahoo!’s cluster is part of the Open Cirrus’ Testbed created by HP, Intel, and Yahoo! (see press release at http://research.yahoo.com/node/2328). The availability of the Yahoo! cluster was first announced in November 2007 (see press release at http://research.yahoo.com/node/1879).
Application to Access to Siemens CAD/CAM/CED: NX Software
NX is the commercial CAD/CAM/CAE PLM software suite developed by
Siemens PLM Software. NX is widely used in the engineering industry,
especially
in the automotive and aerospace sectors.[http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/nx/index.shtml]
2010 MDV Innovators Award Winners Announced
The 2010 Mohr Davidow Ventures Innovators Award Winners have been announced. Mohr Davidow Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm investing in pioneering science, has announced that among its winners are Ali Javey from UC Berkeley and Delia Milliron from LBNL
BBC Radio Interviews David Dornfeld
Professor David Dornfeld, Director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability, was recently interviewed by BBC Radio 5 live about the role of manufacturing regarding climate issues. Listen to radio interview.
NSF Supports UC Berkeley in Taming the Data Deluge in Astronomy
A multidisciplinary group from UC Berkeley have been awarded a
$1,573,550 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to tackle
new challenges confronting astronomers who study the dynamic and
variable sky.