The Berkeley Center for New Media student fellowship deadline in February
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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.
Cyberarcheology research paper wins award
A team of CITRIS researchers received the best paper award at VSMM 2010
Yahoo! Expands Its M45 Cloud Computing Initiative, Adding Top Universities to Supercomputing Research Cluster
Banatao Institute@CITRIS Berkeley researchers can access the Yahoo! M45 Supercomputer
Dr. Gary Baldwin dies at 67
Dr. Gary Baldwin, Director of Special Projects, CITRIS @ Berkeley, passed away on November 16, 2010, after a short battle with cancer.
i4Energy seminar schedule for the fall 2010 semester
Learn more about the exciting talks on energy efficiency this semester at CITRIS
Research Exchange schedule for the fall
The fall series is now available.
October 2010 Newsletter
This newsletter covers the recent SCHEME meeting to promote collaborations of engineers, doctors, and health administrators; and the Teleimmersion for Physicians project
CITRIS Research Highlighted in BioMed Reports Article
CITRIS Research Highlighted in BioMed Reports Article
IBM makes generous gift of a cloud computing cluster to CITRIS
IBM has made a generous gift of a cloud computing cluster, housed in a dedicated laboratory in Sutardja Dai Hall that will lend significant resources to solving some of the most challenging problems facing us in energy and water.
Scientific Colloquium for Healthcare, Engineering and Medicine (SCHEME III)
This session is the next one in our series of bringing together clinicians and medical researchers to discuss possible research collaborations.
Karl Brown Named 2010 UC Sustainability Champion
Karl Brown, an advocate of sustainability technology, has been named the 2010 University of California Sustainability Champion…
July newsletter online
This recent newsletter has stories on (1) Cory Hall Testbed project through i4Energy, which installed a network of
monitoring equipment to track the flow and use of electricity, and (2) a new program, Cleantech to Market, that is
partnering with CITRIS to help select suitable clean energy projects and bring them to
market.
Steven Glaser Named Fellow at the Technical University of Munich
Professor Steven Glaser was recently named a TÜV SÜD Guest Professor and Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, at the Technical University of Munich, one of the premier universities in Germany. Glaser is leading a student workshop, “From Earthquakes to Acoustic Emissions: Non-destructive Testing in Engineering,” to take place in Munich from July 19 to 24.
CITRIS Receives $2.3 Million DOE Research Award
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.
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.