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 […]
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CITRIS Foundry Demo Day 2015 Celebrates Graduating Cohort
The CITRIS Foundry hosted its annual Demo Day on March 31, 2015, to mark the graduation of our Spring 2014 cohort of startup companies. More […]
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, […]
Finalists Announced in Open Data for Development 2015 Competition
We are delighted to have three finalists in the Open Data for Development category of the 2014-2015 Big Ideas@Berkeley competition, which provides funding, support, and […]
Deadline to Apply for the CITRIS Foundry is Feb. 22
Founding a Startup is Hard. We Can Help. Application Deadline is February 22nd at 11:59PM! The CITRIS Foundry is a technology incubator at UC Berkeley that helps […]
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 […]
Finding Hidden Joules
Ferroelectric material could help the arc of Moore’s Law reach new heights and radically reduce energy consumed by digital devices by Gordy Slack For the […]
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 […]
ABC News coverage of Dengue Torpedo Crowdsourcing Game from Social Apps Lab
CITRIS Social Apps Lab director, James Holston, featured in this ABC News Bay Area article and video for his project Dengue Torpedo, a cell phone app […]
“Let’s amplify California’s collective intelligence”: op-ed by Ken Goldberg and Gavin Newsom
by Gavin Newsom and Ken GoldbergPublished 5:59 pm, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, www.sfgate.com Although the results of last week’s primary election are still being certified, we […]
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 […]
Job Opportunity: Front-end Developer for AppCivist
Job Description How can we create an online forum that promotes more democratic assembly and decision-making with less groupthink? For example, how can we design […]
Job Opportunity: Postdoc Researcher
Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research, Service-oriented software platform for social activism Research team Lead Inria Project-Team: ARLES-MiMove (Paris-Rocquencourt) Other Inria Project-teams: MYRIADS (Rennes) and DICE (Lyon) […]
CITRIS Foundry Companies Win at 2014 UC Berkeley Startup Competition (LAUNCH)!
Companies from the CITRIS Foundry were winners in the 2014 UC Berkeley Startup Competition (LAUNCH). LAUNCH is one of the foremost UC Berkeley events for […]
The Foundry Companies Excel at Innovate@Berkeley Startup Expo
For the second year in a row, The Foundry@CITRIS had a strong showing at the Innovate@Berkeley startup competition. Companies from The Foundry represented three out of six finalists (KNOX […]
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 […]
CITRIS Featured in Recent “Big Data” California Magazine
The effects of the information explosion on the University are increasingly evident.
CompFest brings together researchers from Berkeley and Stanford
Annual event by the CSE program allows students to learn more about local research in computational science.
Industry Funding for Scientific Research
CITRIS was featured in a recent article by Joaquin Palomino in the East Bay Express that explores the complicated relationship between corporate support and scientific research on university campuses.
Journalism.co.uk features CITRIS Rashomon Project, a new tool for multi-perspective video journalism
“The ‘multi-perspective’ video platform is one of eight prototypes to get Knight foundation funding”
Big Ideas finalists for 2013
Big Ideas@Berkeley is an annual innovation contest aimed at providing funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of UC undergraduate and graduate students who have “big ideas.”
The $10 Robots: Irresistible and Affordable
The idea is to get kids excited about engineering and science at an extremely low cost.