CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
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Energy and Climate Change: California’s Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Renewables, Fuels, and Markets Thursday, November 14, 2013 Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall Earn […]
This year’s I School Hackathon is sponsored by the Peace Corps, and will tackle real-world problems faced by Peace Corps projects around the world. Thinkers […]
The Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC) Conference 2013 is the premier event focused on understanding behavior and decision making with respect to energy usage, […]
A rapidly growing body of research examines whether human conflict can be affected by climatic changes. Drawing from archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, […]
Information and telecommunications technology have evolved drastically over the past 2 decades and transformed many industries. Healthcare has experienced important changes but continues to lag. […]
While increasing energy usage by the largest nations in the world drives the global economy, the resulting burden of climate change is heaviest on the […]
This talk considers how to restore electric power systems after a natural or man-made disaster. Such a restoration is extremely challenging from a computational standpoint […]
While increasing energy usage by the largest nations in the world drives the global economy, the resulting burden of climate change is heaviest on the […]
This talk considers how to restore electric power systems after a natural or man-made disaster. Such a restoration is extremely challenging from a computational standpoint […]
Mary Ann Piette is the Head of the Building Technology and Urban Systems Department and has been at LBNL since 1983. She is also the […]
While major progress has been made over the past decades, the dynamic behavior of the brain at large is still poorly understood. A major charter […]
Reflecting on his curatorial projects in China and elsewhere, Zhang Ga invokes some of the fundamental concepts developed in Deleuze’s extensive work on cinema to […]
Rural electrification remains a critical development challenge in low-income countries – one that promises great social benefits while simultaneously risking substantial environmental damage. Given that […]
Marina Gorbis is a futurist and social scientist who serves as executive director to the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a Silicon Valley nonprofit research […]
The Diagnostics by Design workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for discussing the challenges and lessons learned in developing and implementing global health technologies, specifically at […]
The Diagnostics by Design hackathon is a cross-communities effort to bridge the gap between makers and do-it-yourself innovators and the sphere of global health. The […]
This talk focuses on a cognitive computing approach to handle common problems within utilities, concentrating on utility operations and exploring the concept of using cognitive […]
4PM-8PM @ 141 Sutardja Dai Hall. This event will facilitate the ideation & development of project ideas to help students define potential areas of interests […]
Financial and trade secret theft, fraud, technical attacks, privacy intrusions, malware and other online criminal activity is a significant problem. Millions of internet users and […]
Electronic materials are materials in which mobile electrons play an active role in defining their relevant properties. However, their functionalities and applications are not necessarily […]
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Abstract: Improving the efficiency with which we use energy is often said to be the most cost-effective way to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas […]
With the tremendous growth in cloud-based services, the web platform is now easily the most widely used application platform. In this talk, I will present […]
A premise of the lab-on-a-chip paradigm is the integration of several processing stages of a chemical or biochemical analytical procedure together with microfluidics and detection […]
Live broadcast at http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast. Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel The schedule for the semester can […]
Don’t miss what promises to be a very timely and engaging conversation with Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Nicole Ozer, […]
The price of cellular infrastructure is dropping dramatically, entering the sub 10,000 USD price point in the last few years. This shift has enabled a […]
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence. The […]
On Friday, February 7 the College will host Thomas M. Siebel, founder, chairman and CEO of C3 Energy, as the first speaker for the spring […]
Please feel free to drop in to this workshop and brainstorming session where archaeologists with Erik Champion will work through some ideas and plans for […]
In this lecture, I will argue that a century of lived experience in the political economy of expansive capitalism in the rich countries of the […]
In this informal talk, I will discuss classroom experiences (both good and bad) gleaned from teaching game design, especially work by students to develop serious […]
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
The CITRIS Foundry is hosting very first Demo Day to celebrate the graduation of our 2013-14 cohort. The Demo Day will serve as an opportunity […]
How are scholars using surround displays, stereographics, gaming technologies and new peripherals to disseminate new ways of viewing, interacting with, and understanding humanities content, and […]
Learn how to build Chatbots with renowned artificial intelligence programmer and ChatScript language designer Bruce Wilcox as you compete to create the most human chatbot! […]
Jaron Lanier scientific interests include biomimetic information architectures, user interfaces, heterogeneous scientific simulations, advanced information systems for medicine, and computational approaches to the fundamentals of […]
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 […]
Today we are so used to the enormous capabilities of microelectronics that we can hardly imagine what it might have been like in the early […]