This year, CITRIS awarded five student-led proposals a total of $45,000 in prize money at the April 14 poster session for our annual White Paper competition
News
Big Ideas finalists for 2011
The top twelve finalists will participate in April 14 poster and judging event
Learn more about the Personal Robotics Project
Since Rosie the Robot first debuted on television’s “The Jetsons” in 1962, the futuristic image of a personal robot autonomously operating in a human home has captivated the public imagination.
Follow solar forecasting experiments in real-time
Carlos Coimbra, an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering of UC Merced, is leading research in solar forecasting. You can follow their solar experiments in real-time.
CITRIS projects recently featured in radio shows
CITRIS projects and events have been covered in recent radio stories.
Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom visits CITRIS headquarters on March 30
Gavin Newsom, the Lieutenant Governor of California, visited the CITRIS Headquarters on March 30 as part of a state-wide listening tour on higher education.
Fruitful partnership between CITRIS and Innovation Center Denmark
New partnership between CITRIS and Innovation Center Denmark involves joint conferences and workshops as well as Visiting Scholarships
Crossing Boundaries: New Media and the Shape of International News, March 17-18
Students and practitioners of journalism recently descended on Sutardja Dai Hall at the University of California Berkeley, for a conference that focused on new media and the emergent, boundary‐crossing collections of news, technologies and audiences.
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.
CITRIS Events
CITRIS Events Calendar……..
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
Prof. Andrew Fisher presents recent findings at Geophysical Meeting
An infiltration pond in California’s Pajaro Valley has become a laboratory where scientists are working to improve techniques for recharging the region’s depleted aquifer.
CITRIS Research highlighted in video
Professor Alberto Cerpa is using wireless sensors to improve HVAC efficiency. His research was funded in part from a CITRIS Seed grant.
Water sensors offer better estimates for forecasting availability
The UC Green blog discusses a new wireless data collection system enabled by CITRIS and deployed at Duncan Peak that is part of a new water information system for California.
Big Ideas a topic at Convergence Science forum
The Big Ideas contest was one of several topics at a recent forum
UC Student Fellowship and Competition Opportunities through BCNM
The Berkeley Center for New Media student fellowship deadline in February
Job Opportunity: Managing Director i4Energy Center (MD/i4E)
CITRIS is now hiring for the position of Managing Director i4Energy Center (MD/i4E)
Golden Gate Bridge work mentioned in The Economist
CITRIS-funded research on sensors placed on the Golden Gate Bridge has been mentioned in technology quarterly pages of The Economist this week
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
Robotics project featured in U.S. News
CITRIS Researchers are working on a project to “teach” robots to function in the operating room as human surgical assistants. This work is currently highlighted in U.S. News and World Report.