CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
Speaker/Performer: Gregg Zachary, Arizona State University Sponsor: CITRIS (Ctr for Info Technology Research in the Interest of Society) Abstract: Formal training in computer science and engineering is […]
Registration for each event (by the Monday prior at 3pm) is required for LUNCH at UC Berkeley at . Everyone is welcome to attend, even […]
Peter Duerr currently is a visiting scholar at the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative (DDI). His home affiliation is the Department of Social Sciences at […]
Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) hold great potential to aid large numbers of people with neurological disorders. BMIs also provide a framework for studying cortical dynamics and […]
The mounting need to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare due to economic pressures and changing demographics requires significant transformations in healthcare delivery. This […]
Abstract: Advances in technology and the ever-growing role of digital sensors and computers in science have led to an exponential growth in the amount and […]
Abstract: The Industrial Internet is the third disruptive wave, after the Industrial and the Internet revolutions. It is transforming our industries, just like the Internet […]
Abstract: Robotic surgery has made considerable strides in the last 15 years. FDA-approved robotic systems have revolutionized surgery by giving surgeons better visualization and precision. […]
This talk reports on a study about the impact of crowdsourcing on a law-making process in Finland. In the studied process, the off-road traffic law […]
Speaker: Kamyar Guivetchi, California Department of Water Resources Talk title: "Themes of California Water Plan Update: Integrate, Align and Invest" Live broadcast at http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast. Ask questions […]
Brian Fishman is a counterterrorism research fellow at the New America Foundation, a Fellow with the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point, and Philanthropic […]
Join us for a talk by Steve Schiller. Schiller has thirty years of experience in the energy industry with a focus on demand-side energy efficiency, […]
OpenROV is a open-source underwater robot. But it’s so much more. It’s also a community of people who are working together to create more accessible, […]
Brenda Romero is the Program Director for the UC Santa Cruz Master’s in Games + Playable Media and the CEO and Co-Founder of Loot Drop, […]
Today's networks allow us to connect almost everybody and, increasingly, to connect almost every thing of value. This new tier of the Internet connects directly […]
A central problem for all Californians is that there is often not enough water or too much. While the Mediterranean climate of cool wet winters […]
Carla Peterman, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission, will speak about how California energy policy supports an ambitious transition from conventional fossil generation to renewable and […]
What are the challenges for deployment of telehealth in the future? This lecture will focus on giving an overview of the evidence base of telehealth […]
The challenges proposed by long-term resource supplies, global climate change and energy market volatility require strategies and policies directed towards the development of technologically, economically […]
Dan Sperling of UC Davis will speak at the first CITRIS Research Exchange of the fall. Passenger transportation was arguably the least innovative sector in […]
Dr. Ashok Gadgil has a doctorate in physics from UC Berkeley. He is Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, […]
The European Commission launched in March 2010 the Europe 2020 Strategy to exit the crisis and prepare the EU economy for the challenges of the […]
High-Impact Research strategies could help large and small projects to deepen human understanding of the natural and made worlds, so as to promote sustainable use […]
This talk describes a new architecture for distributed flash flood and traffic monitoring in cities using combined Eulerian and Lagrangian sensing. Unlike current traffic sensor […]