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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.

Ravi Nemana awarded $5,000 by IBM

Ravi Nemana, CITRIS Executive Director for Services and Health Care, received an Honorable Mention Award of $5,000 for his contributions to IBM’s Smarter Planet University Jam. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to involve more than 300,000 people around the world in far-reaching exploration and problem-solving. IBM's Jams provide for collaborative innovation and bring different minds and different perspectives together to discover new solutions to long-standing problems.

Tenth Workshop on the DOE Advanced Computational Software Collection

The Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection comprises a set 
of non commercial tools mainly developed at the Department of Energy's
(DOE) laboratories, sometimes in collaboration with universities. These 
software tools aim to simplify the solution of common and important
computational problems, and have substantially benefited a wide range of 
applications and fields in computational sciences.

Opinion Space launched

Opinion Space, an experimental system for visualizing opinions and exchanging ideas, encourages people to express their opinions and lets them visualize where they stand relative to the diversity of other viewpoints.