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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.

Congressman Mike Honda Visits CITRIS

Congressman Mike Honda recently toured the new CITRIS Headquarters building. During his visit Director Paul Wright provided a personal tour of the new CITRIS Museum.

The Times Square of IT: SenSys 2009

SenSys 2009 was a great success. Running from November 4-6 at UC Berkeley, the international conference drew over 250 attendees from around the world. Researchers presented research results on systems issues in the area of embedded, networked sensors.

Bay Area Drupal Camp – CITRIS supports local open source community

CITRIS hosted the Bay Area Drupal Camp, an event supporting the local open source community. Drupal is an open source content management framework, currently being used to power www.citris-uc.org, and a huge number of websites on the CITRIS campuses, at other educational institutions, such as MIT, Stanford and Duke, and thousands of corporate, non-profit and governmental sites.

Accelerator-based computing and Manycore

NERSC, LBNL and CITRIS announce an
international conference on the role of emerging many-core
architectures in science and technology. The focus of the conference is
to introduce, explore and discuss the scope and challenges
of harnessing the full potential of these novel architectures for high
performance computing, especially in Physics and Astronomy.

Three New Videos Highlight CITRIS Research

Three videos highlight some of the research taking place at CITRIS. The videos show research successes with three projects: CellScope, Mobile Millennium, and smart thermostats.

Javeed Siddiqui Appointed as CITRIS Medical Director

Javeed Siddiqui, M.D was recently appointed as Medical Director of CITRIS. Dr. Siddiqui’s work to advance healthcare access and quality through the use of technology has made significant contributions to the field. His project management and strategic planning experience in technology advancement will be valuable throughout the CITRIS community.

Cloud Computing Workshop Slides

Sponsored by: Yahoo!, Cal CSE, CSE-Cloud, and CITRIS
http://cloud.citris-uc.org/

Presentations:
Cloud Computing Part I: Introduction to Hadoop/Pig
Cloud Computing Part II, Advanced Topics

For Information about the Workshop click here.

Prof. Carey receives award from Hewlett-Packard

Professor Van P. Carey, CITRIS researcher and UC Berkeley professor of Mechanical Engineering recently received an award from Hewlett-Packard as part of a growing research effort on sustainable energy technologies in the Energy and Information Technologies (EIT) Laboratory that he founded with CITRIS seed funding. Prof. Carey has attracted more that $250,000 in new funding for this lab in recently awarded grants from HP and UC Discovery.

Alex Bayen interviewed on Smartplanet

Professor Alexandre Bayen was recently interviewed by CBS’ Smartplanet, a new online channel from CBS. The interview focused on Mobile Millennium, a traffic information system built jointly by Nokia, Navteq and UC Berkeley, in partnership with the US Department of Transportation and the California Department of Transportation. View two minute interview.