The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) today announces the launch of the CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, a major […]
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Big Ideas 2015 winners in “IT for Society” Challenge: BCAPI takes first place
CITRIS held its poster and judging session on April 10, for the Big Ideas 2015 competition, with seven innovative projects competing for $22.5K in prizes. […]
In Honor of Tax Day, Celebrate the Internet
The fabric of the Internet is woven with public-private partnerships. From its origin in the early 1960s, pioneers in network infrastructure and early demonstrations of […]
CITRIS Nominates Sage Scholars for 2015 Assembly in Paris
Sanjay Krishnan, Omoju Miller, and Charvi Shetty were named as Sage Scholars and invited to present their work in Paris this month. From April 16 […]
Former Michigan Gov. Granholm Announces American Jobs Project
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm Announces American Jobs Project, a National Initiative to Spur Job Creation in the Advanced Energy Sector Berkeley, CA. (March 19, […]
Resilience Seminar Series Brings Together ITS, TRUST and CITRIS Strengths
Highlighting the cross-disciplinary aspects of resilience, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), and […]
2015 Big Ideas Finalists Announced in “IT for Society” Competition
CITRIS is delighted to have seven finalists in the IT for Society category of the 2014-2015 Big Ideas@Berkeley competition, which provides funding, support, and encouragement […]
CITRIS Alumnus Receives Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award for Ph.D. on Transportation Cybersecurity
Reilly Awarded Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award for Ph.D. on Transportation Cybersecurity Congratulations to Jack Reilly, one of the original doctoral candidates to conduct research from […]
Count Me In: Walking and the City event on urban mobility
During the Fall 2014, a team of 17 graduate students and two professors worked with the city of San Leandro to develop digital tools to […]
Human Impacts Bay Area: Innovations for the Climate Breakthrough
Join us for an evening of engaging discussion from a diversity of Bay Area’s community leaders, thinkers, and artists. This event will be free and […]
Distributed Infrastructure of Small Urban Places
A digital tool helps coordinate unused parcels of urban public land to alleviate the need for expensive infrastructure projects, revive depressed and blighted neighborhoods, and […]
Big Ideas competition now open to all CITRIS campuses
What’s Your Big Idea? The 2014-2015 Big Ideas at Berkeley contest is now open! Big Ideas at Berkeley is an annual innovation contest that provides […]
Telehealth Research Collaboration spans the Atlantic
For more than a decade, high hopes have been pinned on telehealth technology to help the U.S. health care system serve the rising population of […]
Bringing Building Automation to Small and Mid-Size Commercial Properties
The information technology revolution has come slowly to commercial buildings. Until now, piecemeal innovations in automating isolated functions like temperature, security, lighting, and air quality […]
Launching New Research Platforms for Smarter Buildings and Healthier People
Friends of CITRIS, The collected research of CITRIS faculty shows an amazing range of scale: from micro-electronics and nanotechnology to systems at the level of […]
Technology and Older Adults: The New Era of Connected Aging
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and Center for Technology and Aging (CTA) to Host Forum on Connected Aging […]
3rd Annual CITRIS at UC Merced Mobile App Challenge Winners
The CITRIS at UC Merced Mobile App Challenge finals were held on Friday, May 16, 2014. Congratulations to the finalists! Meet the winners below. Crowd […]
CITRIS in a Nutshell: Innovation, Community, Teamwork, and Social Purpose
Dear Friends of CITRIS, Most issues of the CITRIS Signal focus on new research conducted by our top faculty scientists and engineers. This edition looks […]
The CITRIS Foundry first cohort of graduates
by Gordy Slack The road to start-up success is littered with great ideas. Turning an idea into a prototype, a viable business plan, and an […]
Mobile App Challenge: Inventing Small Ways to Make a Big Difference
Most students aspire to both do well and do good in school. A semester-long app-development competition helped give traction for 50 graduate and undergraduate students […]
The Innovation HealthJam to be held June 17-19, 2014
Registration is now open for the Innovation HealthJam, a collaborative brainstorming event that will be held online June 17-19, 2014. During the free, three-day virtual […]
CITRIS Big Ideas Winners for 2014
CITRIS held its poster and judging session on April 21st, 2014 for the annual Big Ideas competition, with eight innovative projects competing for $22.5K in […]
Translantic Telehealth Research Network
CITRIS is a major partner in an innovative international collaboration in telemedicine and heart disease. In March 2012, Aalborg University (Denmark), CITRIS/UC Davis Health System […]
The CITRIS Foundry Announces the New Cohort of Teams for Spring 2014
Five new teams have recently joined the CITRIS Foundry. Created in 2012, the Foundry helps entrepreneurs build companies that make a significant impact on the […]