CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
Talk Title: Taking Robots from the Lab to the Workforce Speaker: Melonee Wise Date: September 14, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, […]
Each semester, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation invites leading designers and makers to Berkeley to speak as part of the Jacobs Design Conversations series. […]
Per Selvaag, principal at Montaag design studio, will share insights at Jacobs Hall.
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.
In this talk, we will provide an overview of pay-per-mile car insurance, a type of usage-based insurance policy where a driver’s rate variably changes with […]
Operations research has broadened from focusing on factories and queuing to health care, finance, and other fields. This talk argues that another opportunity for exciting […]
The rapid expansion of digital connectivity and tools poses new challenges and opportunities for organizations like Amnesty International. Although researchers working to expose human rights […]
Talk Title: Mapping Aquatic Plants Using Airborne Sensors Speaker: Susan Ustin Date: September 21, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Susan […]
The past decade has been one of astonishing innovation in the world of spatial data, analysis and visualization. I’m going to talk about all the […]
Film Screening | September 22, 2016 | 12:30-2:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium On September 22, 2016, join hundreds of thousands of people […]
CITRIS will co-sponsor a a screening of the films The Adaptable Mind and The Science of Character, and Ken Goldeberg will discuss some of his […]
Want to learn about the CITRIS Foundry startup accelerator program? Register for a live 30 minute online info session to meet program staff. We’ll discuss […]
The CLTC Tuesday Lunch Seminar will be on Tuesday, September 27, as we will welcome Chris Finan, CEO and Co-Founder of Manifold Technology, a Silicon […]
In his otherwise dismissive New Yorker review of Jane Jacobs’ 1962 Death and Life of Great American Cities (“Mother Jacobs’ Home Remedies”), Lewis Mumford allowed […]
Talk Title: Robots in the Harvest Speaker: James Ostrowski Date: September 28, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Jim Ostrowski is […]
Jim Ostrowski is the VP of Engineering at Blue River Technology, which serves farmers with computer-vision based robotics that unlock greater yield potential. ——————————- Free […]
In Low Car(bon) Communities, authors Nicole Foletta and Jason Henderson examine seven case studies in Europe and the United States that aim explicitly to reduce […]
Join us for the first annual Women in Technology Symposium! Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 11:30am-6:00pm Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Register now > Gender […]
Design, construction, maintenance and upgrading of civil engineering infrastructure requires fresh thinking to minimize use of materials, energy and labor. This can be achieved by […]
Jacobs Design Conversations: Elizabeth Gerber 10/13/2016 12:00pm - 1:00pm Liz Gerber, associate professor of design at Northwestern University Location: 310, Jacobs Hall About Jacobs Design […]
Talk Title: Future of Distributed Energy Resources Speaker: Ryan Hanley Date: October 19, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Ryan […]
This seminar will present various issues that had to be addressed regarding the development of a large-scale traffic simulation model.
Talk Title: Technology and Cultural Preservation Speaker: Nicola Lercari Date: October 26, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Nicola Lercari […]
The emergence of wireless sensors and smartphones have created opportunities to understand and better manage —in real-time— the behavior of critical infrastructures, including their response […]
One of the major challenges in design of complex networked control systems –such as those arising in aerospace, computing, robotics, critical infrastructure and manufacturing systems, […]