Tom Kalil is the current Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Senior Advisor for […]

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) and Berkeley City College will host a free public talk on “Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” by Dr. Inez Fung […]

CITRIS is hosting a lunchtime panel discussion on the New Manufacturing Revolution, featuring Paul Markillie , Peter Marsh , John Zysman and Björn Hartmann . […]

The FBI claims it is going dark. Encryption technologies have finally been deployed by software companies, and critically, enabled by default, such that emails are […]

Duncan Callaway joined the Energy and Resources Group as an assistant professor in the Fall of 2009, and he also holds a courtesy appointment in […]

Information systems are being called upon not only to help keep us organized and productive, but also to help in the fabric of the way […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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)

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]