Games-Serious or Otherwise-for and about Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Feb 11
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 […]
Events
44 events found.
Breaking the Habits of Economic Growth: an Imperative for a Low Carbon Transformation, Feb 12
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 […]
Heritage Via Games and Game Mods, Feb 12
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 […]
Air Pollution Kills! So What? Air Quality Engineering to Improve Public Health, Feb 12
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
CITRIS Foundry Demo Day 2014
Kvamme Atrium Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe 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 […]
Cultural Heritage and Surround Displays, VR and Games for the Humanities, Feb 13
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 […]
Create Your Bot Hackathon, Feb 15
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! […]
The Surveillance Economy and Extreme Income Inequality: You Can't Have One Without the Other, Feb 18
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 […]
Crowdsourcing in Policy-Making: The Impact of Blended Expertise on Law-Making Process, Feb 19
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 […]
Microelectronics and Microprocessors: The Early Years, Feb 19
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 […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Feb 20
Security is a critical concern around the world, whether it is the challenge of protecting ports, airports and other critical infrastructure, interdicting the illegal flow […]
Urban Data Canvas Hackathon, Feb 22
As we talk about streaming data from smart cities and the Internet of Things, certain questions emerge: What is important? Who is watching? How are […]
Civil Liberties, Privacy, and National Security: A Conversation with The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Feb 26
How should we strike the right balance between national security and privacy and civil liberties in federal counterterrorism programs? Join members of the U.S. Privacy […]
Themes of California Water Plan Update: Integrate, Align and Invest by Kamyar Guivetchi
Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, BerkeleySpeaker: 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 […]
Data, Society, and Inference Seminar – Bin Yu, Mar 3
In this talk, we propose a general framework for topic-specific summarization of large text corpora and illustrate how it can be used for the analysis […]
View from the Top, Mar 4
For more than a decade, Olin College of Engineering has been exploring three questions with regard to engineering education: • Are we attracting the right […]
Innovations in Disaster Relief Work, Mar 5
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 […]
Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series, Mar 5
The Development Engineering Research Seminar series will explore and examine currents efforts to promote the sustainable development of agriculture, public health, education, and engineering in […]
Revisiting the Fishers of Kerala, India, Mar 5
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Pan-Optics: Emerging Perspectives on Visual Privacy and Surveillance, Mar 6
This symposium will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines to discuss privacy protections, surveillance methods, and modes of resistance in a […]
TRUST Security Seminar, Mar 6
We are in the age of networks and networked systems: communication, transportation, economic, biological, healthcare, educational, human, social, web-based, etc. This evolution and reality have […]
Pan-Optics: Perspectives on Digital Privacy and Surveillance
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesAdvances in drone aircraft, networked cameras, and recent disclosures about the NSA’s international and domestic surveillance activities have stimulated public protests, outrage from activists, and […]
Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series, Mar 12
The Development Engineering Research Seminar series will explore and examine currents efforts to promote the sustainable development of agriculture, public health, education, and engineering in […]
Future of Demand Side Energy Management – Opportunities and Challenges, Mar 12
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, […]
Lifecycle analyses of energy options and climate change: what’s wrong, and how to fix it., Mar 12
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Leadership and Management: Implications for the Future of Health Care Reform, Mar 17
The California Pacific Public Health Training Center (CALPACT) and the Center for Health Leadership (CHL) are proud to present the upcoming lecture with Leonard Schaeffer, […]
Ernest S. Kuh Distinguished Lecture, Mar 18
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDr. Sutardja (M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’88 EECS) will relate how he and his co-founders took Marvell Technology Group to global prominence in semiconductor innovation in […]
OpenROV: Open Source Underwater Robots for Exploration and Education, Mar 19
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesOpenROV 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, […]
Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series, Mar 19
Blum Hall B100 Blum Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe Development Engineering Research Seminar series will explore and examine currents efforts to promote the sustainable development of agriculture, public health, education, and engineering in […]
California Report Card: Learning from a New Platform for Civic Engagement, March 20
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJoin us for a public forum where Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Marina Gorbis of the Institute for the Future, Dean Henry E. Brady of the Goldman School of […]
Big Data: Values and Governance, Apr 1
Hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the UC Berkeley School of Information, and the Berkeley Center for Law and […]
The Core of a Game, Brenda Romero, Apr 2
242 Sutardja Dai Hall 242 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesBrenda 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, […]
Robots and New Media, Apr 4
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesA new medium is emerging: robots. For decades robots have been tasked to diligently perform a range of roles and duties within industrial manufacturing. But […]
Personalizing Cancer Diagnostics Using Microfluidics, Apr 4
390 Hearst Memorial Mining 390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Berkeley, CA, United StatesCancer therapy has a critical unmet need, which is to identify the best therapy for individual cancer patients. There are currently over 250 FDA-approved drugs […]
Betty Deakin Discusses California's High Speed Rail, Apr 7
Professor Elizabeth Deakin will speak with the Climate Change and Health IdeaLab (CHIL) about the community and environmental impacts of California’s High Speed Rail. Deakin’s […]
Brain-computer interfaces, Apr 9
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and Berkeley City College will host a free public talk on “Brain-Computer Interfaces,” by Dr. Philip Sabes. Dr. Sabes […]
Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series, Apr 9
The Development Engineering Research Seminar series will explore and examine currents efforts to promote the sustainable development of agriculture, public health, education, and engineering in […]
An Operating System Architecture for CyberPhysical Systems in Buildings and Grids, Apr 9
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesToday'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 […]
2014 Minner Distinguished Lecturer, Apr 10
On Thursday, April 10, 2014, the College welcomes Dale Dougherty, founder and CEO of Maker Media, Inc., as the 2014 Minner Distinguished Lecturer. In his […]
Meet the winners of the QB3/Foundry Challenge
As health care becomes increasingly complex, there is a need for innovation at the intersection of biosciences and integrated digital technologies. New startups that operate […]
Reinvent Growth without Pollution, Apr 10
UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group and the Center for South Asia Studies are proud to present the 20th Annual Lecture on Energy and the […]
Welcome to the Age of Access: Exploring the Sharing Economy and Shared-Use Mobility, Apr 11
A panel of leaders of the sharing economy and shared-use mobility will introduce the burgeoning economy, discuss various forms of shared-use mobility (such as carsharing, […]
CITRIS Open House for Cal Day 2014
CITRIS will be open on Cal Day on April 12, 2014! Highlights will include the PR2 Robot demo and our Tech Museum on the 3rd […]
The Future of Transportation in California, Apr 15
Malcolm Dougherty, Director of the California Department of Transportation, will speak on the current state of transportation in California, and on Caltrans’ forward vision of […]