CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
The proliferation of mobile electronic devices and the emergence of applications such as wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things have brought energy consumption […]
About Jacobs Design Conversations Each semester, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation invites leading designers and makers to Berkeley to speak as part of the Jacobs Design […]
The UC Merced Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is excited to host the Frontiers in Technology (FIT) Speaker Series […]
Stuart Russell is currently a professor of computer science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at […]
CITRIS Big Ideas poster session Presentation | April 7, 2016 | 3-4 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Kvamme Atrium, 3rd floor Register to Attend CITRIS is delighted […]
Join us for an Open House! Event will include information on CITRIS and its research initiatives, as well as funding opportunities, programs, and resources available […]
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
This event is open to the public as part of Cal Day 2016. Date: 4/16/16 Time: 10:00am-12:00pm Location: 310 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC […]
This event is open to the public as part of Cal Day 2016. Join the CITRIS Invention Lab is holding for Open House on Cal […]
Join us for Jacobs Hall’s first-ever Cal Day! As part of the campuswide event, Jacobs Hall will feature an open house, student panel, and hands-on […]
Sue Carter earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a postdoctoral fellow and IBM Almaden Research Center […]
Innovation in Diabetes Prevention & Management Date: April 28 & April 29 Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Join us on April 28th […]
Berkeley Builds: Social Impact Designathon April 30-May 1 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Register Now< Innovate, Collaborate, And Create For The Following Nonprofits: […]
May 3 | 9:30-11 a.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Tilden Room Featured Speaker: Lisa Jackson, Vice President, Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, Apple […]
If you're looking for inspiration on app development or are curious about joining the Mobile App Challenge next year, come out to Demo Day 2016 […]
May 5, 2016, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm Reception to follow and May 6, 2016, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai […]
IoT & Sustainability: Practice, Policy and Promise When: May 12 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm, Reception to follow Where: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Register: http://iotandsustainability.eventbrite.com […]
UC Carbon Slam Event When: Monday, May 23, 2016 Venue: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94304 More Info […]
Aging2.0 Global Startup Search | Berkeley Aging2.0 is searching the world for the best aging-focused startups. If you are developing a product for aging, or […]
The CITRIS People and Robots Initiative hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems, Analysis, and […]
Technological advances enable, today and in the future, opportunities for individual scientists to communicate in new and more effective ways. Scientists must take advantage of […]
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 […]
In this seminar an overview of the lessons learned in the past earthquakes and ongoing technical improvements in the design of bridges in California will […]
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 […]
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, […]
Speaker: Fred Meyers, Associate Dean for Precision Medicine, UC Davis Date: November 2, 2016, Wednesday Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Precision medicine and […]
Talk Title: Take Charge of Your Energy: Residential Demand Response Speaker: John Anderson Date: November 09, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC […]
Join author John Bloom and panelists Dan Colussy, Ray Leopold and Dorothy Robyn for a lively conversation about Iridium–the world’s most complex satellite system–and its […]
Talk Title: Innovations and Entrepreneurship in Photonics for Health Care Speaker: Jes Broeng Date: November 16, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC […]
The CITRIS Foundry is hosting a Demo Day on November 16, 2016, to celebrate the graduation of our Fall 2015 cohort. The Demo Day will […]
Talk Title: Internet Policy: The Burden of Democracy and Responsibility of Opportunity Speaker: Susan E. Walters Date: November 30, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja […]
Join TGIF for an info session on the 2017 Spring Grants! Learn about TGIF’s mission and goals, application materials, and important deadlines.
The proliferation of mobile electronic devices and the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) have brought energy consumption to the fore of challenges for […]
DATE AND TIME Thu, December 1, 2016 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST LOCATION Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall Berkeley, CA Tony Xu, an innovative […]
Tony Xu, an innovative leader in the fields of infrastructure engineering and logsitics will discuss his experience founding on-demand delivery company DoorDash and his thoughts […]
The UC Berkeley Tech for Social Good program is hosting its first info session! The Tech for Social Good Program provides funding support to undergraduate, […]
In this talk, I will present implications of CPS design to Smarter Transportation Systems, namely: a) Distributed algorithms for collaborative localization and clock synchronization, b) […]
We are pleased to welcome Professor Robert Langer of MIT as our 2016-17 Distinguished Seminar speaker. “Biomaterials and biotechnology: From the discovery of the first […]
We are pleased to welcome Professor Robert Langer of MIT as our 2016-17 Distinguished Seminar speaker. “Biomaterials and biotechnology: From the discovery of the first […]