Drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area with GPS-enabled mobile phones can now tap into new technology that promises to transform traffic monitoring. Researchers have publicly released pilot software that turns cellular devices into mobile traffic probes providing real-time information on traffic flow and travel times. (Below: College of Engineering Dean Shankar Sastry opens this briefing to visitors and media.)
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Presentations from TIER workshop
Presentations from the recent TIER workshop are now online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/TIER.
Check your carbon footprint at CoolClimate Calculator
The CoolClimate Calculator (http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu) has been developed by researchers at the Berkeley Institute of the Environment to help US households evaluate their complete climate footprints, including all direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, household energy, food, goods and services.
Job Opportunity: Student Assistant Position, IT Division at LBNL
For more information and to apply for internship please contact: Tammy
Welcome at LBNL: TSWelcome@lbl.gov
Title: Student Assistant Position with IT Division at LBNL
Undergraduate or graduate position, <50% during academic year, 100%
during summer
Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Science
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and
the Computational Research Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory invite applications for the Luis
W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computational Science.
For more information and to apply visit: http://www.lbl.gov/CS/html/alvarez.html
Copenhagen Climate Congress
The University of Copenhagen is hosting an
international scientific congress on climate change March 10-12, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Findings will be compiled in a book on climate
change, and an excecutive summary will be handed
over to policy makers at the COP15.
The Deadline for paper submissions for the Copenhagen Climate Congress is November 1, 2008.
October Newsletter is online
The October newsletter is now online, featuring stories games for medical diagnosis and technology for giving voices to disenfranchised communities.
Big Ideas competition story in Science magazine
A recent article on Big Ideas appeared in Science magazine.
Sony Lawsuit benefits students in Computer Game Design Major at UCSC
UC Santa Cruz has been given $457,909 to be used to provide financial
aid for students enrolled in the innovative computer game design
program in UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering.
Watch live at 4:00 p.m.: Open Innovation Series talk by Carol Mimura
The talk is live online at 4:00 p.m. mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast
Videos from the Services in Health care conference are on YouTube
Talks and discussions from the recent Services in Health care conference are online at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3F05DD2A723C3887.
Wednesday’s Research Exchange Postponed
Due to unavoidable circumstances, our Research Exchange Seminar scheduled for Wednesday, September 17, 2008 has been postponed and will be rescheduled in the near future.
Nokia’s Distinguished Lecture Series
California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT), Center for
Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS),
and Nokia present the distinguished lecture series on Cyber-Physical
Systems (CPS).
The Black Cloud: Using Games to Understand Air Quality
A game by Prof. Greg Niemeyer aims to draw connections between human behavior and local air pollution in a innovative learning environment.
UC Santa Cruz Team Developing a High-tech Dictionary for the Classroom
Dictionaries in the classroom may go the way of typewriters if researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have their way.
CSE and Parlab co-hosted a two-day “boot camp” on Aug 25-26
CSE and Parlab co-hosted a two-day “boot camp” on parallel computing on Aug 25-26. This free two-day short course targeted both developers and users of parallel computing on campus, at LBNL and among our outside collaborators.
UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab establish a stronger presence in the field of CSE
UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab established a stronger presence in the field of CSE, primarily through enhanced support for collaborativeresearch projects and development of the Designated Emphasis in CSE for PhD students in the application disciplines.
Paul Wright Receives 2008 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award
Paul Wright, professor in the Mechanical Engineering
Department at the University of California at Berkeley and Acting CITRIS Director was recently honored with 2008 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Computers and Information in Engineering Division’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
The UC Berkeley Graduate Council has established a Designated Emphasis in CSE.
The Graduate Council has established a Designated Emphasis in Computational Science and Engineering
[CSE] effective 7/1/08. The DE will be offered by an interdisciplinary
grad group and will educate doctoral students to effectively conduct
computationally intensive research across many fields of science and
engineering.
New CITRIS Theme: Computational Science and Engineering
A new multidisciplinary research and education theme has been added to CITRIS's research grid. Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) provides a framework for enhanced support of collaborative research projects involving CSE researchers and students. The program will educate students to better perform and effectively execute computationally intensive research across many fields of science and engineering.
Research Exchange schedule for the fall is now available
The fall semester schedule for the popular Research Exchange series is now on-line.
2009 Delta Cup – International Solar Building Design Competition
The city of Beijing will play host to the 2009 Delta Cup – International Solar Building Design Competition.
New Book Examines Emergency Response Technology
A new book co-authored by Berkeley Mechanical Engineering graduate student Joel Wilson and Prof. Paul Wright describes the development of new technologies to support first-responders more effectively and more safely manage large urban/industrial incidents.
Workshop on the Cyberhuman – Extending Control
On June 19 and 20 Professor Ruzena
Bajcsy led a two day workshop in Denmark looking at the future relationships
between machines and humans. This workshop was sponsored by CITRIS and
the University of Copenhagen. Various topics were tackled,
including robot controlled cars, face recognition, virtual communications,
unmanned airplanes and robotics in the home, just to name a few.