CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
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 […]
Post‐Hazard learning, risk assessment and decision‐making for infrastructure systems Armen Der Kiureghian Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley Robust performance and […]
California is experiencing its worst drought in recorded history, but droughts are not new to California. Over the past 150 years, during which California’s water […]
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC RSVP at: http://bit.ly/1iUGprj The eight finalists for the 2014 Big Ideas Competition in IT for Society will present at an […]
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? Youth […]
Carla Peterman, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission, will speak about how California energy policy supports an ambitious transition from conventional fossil generation to renewable and […]
Two decades of analysis have produced a rich set of insights as to how the law should apply to the Internet’s peculiar characteristics. But, in […]
What shapes our music technologies? How do our technologies shape our musical practices and thought? An exciting body of scholarship has addressed such questions for […]
The scientific field of (compound) semiconductor nanowires got started seriously in the US and in Europe about 15 years ago, some ten years after the […]
The Berkeley Angel Network (BAN) & The Foundry@CITRIS would like to invite the UC Berkeley entreprenuership community to our first Angel Investor Panel. Come learn about angel investment and […]
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 […]
What are the challenges for deployment of telehealth in the future? This lecture will focus on giving an overview of the evidence base of telehealth […]
Groundtruth and Airwaves: Sensor Networks and Emerging Technology for Environmental Journalism Symposium, April 30, 1pm - 5pm | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, University of […]
berkeleyByte Presents: The Social Impact of Technology, A Conversation Featuring Speakers from The Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology, Team4Tech, SocialCoding4Good, and VMWare Inc. […]
Quality design is credited with providing a powerful competitive advantage to businesses and driving successful innovation. Metrics for measuring the value of design have included […]
To promote innovation, community service, and career development among UC Berkeley students, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) sponsored […]
The challenges proposed by long-term resource supplies, global climate change and energy market volatility require strategies and policies directed towards the development of technologically, economically […]
What are the theoretical limitations of computer power? In a remarkable 1956 letter, the great logician Kurt Gödel first raised this question when he asked […]
Biological Inspiration is the use of principles from biology to generate novel designs through integration with the best human engineering. These fundamental principles have inspired […]
Interested in learning how to transform data or complex, hard to understand information into something more visually appealing and meaningful? Or how to use tools […]
American author and journalist Janes Bamfordhas written extensively about the National Security Agency. Fresh back from visits to Glenn Greenwald in Rio and Laura Poitras […]
Ritualistic and agricultural imagery dominate depictions of the human and social body in early Chinese texts. In this presentation, I set out to dialogue passages […]
The California Pacific Public Health Training Center (CALPACT) and the Center for Health Leadership (CHL) are proud to present “Innovations in Problem Solving: New Tools […]
When it comes to communication, telling stories with images and video has a power few other mediums have. These engaging and increasingly shareable visual mediums […]
Registration is now open for the Innovation HealthJam, a collaborative brainstorming event that will be held online June 17-19, 2014. During the free, three-day virtual […]
MMDS 2014 (2014 Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets) will take place on the campus of UC Berkeley on June 17-20, 2014. Event: […]
A major technological hurdle in neuroprosthetics is the lack of an implantable neural interface system that remains viable for a lifetime. I will discuss the […]
Join us for light refreshments and conversation in the Commons to learn more about the Berkeley Center for New Media’s academic offerings and event programs. […]
Dan Sperling of UC Davis will speak at the first CITRIS Research Exchange of the fall. Passenger transportation was arguably the least innovative sector in […]
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295) http://erg.berkeley.edu Paulina Jaramillo, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
What does the recent battle for patent reform mean for startups and for the future of tech policy? Julie Samuels is executive director and president […]
Dr. Ashok Gadgil has a doctorate in physics from UC Berkeley. He is Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, […]
The Foundry@CITRIS, CET Venture Lab and Berkeley Skydeck will be co-hosting the first in a year-long series of monthly presentations by WilmerHale on legal issues that startup founders need to know. This […]
This talk will cover our study of three advanced web tracking mechanisms: canvas fingerprinting, evercookies and cookie syncing. Canvas fingerprinting, a recently developed form of […]
The European Commission launched in March 2010 the Europe 2020 Strategy to exit the crisis and prepare the EU economy for the challenges of the […]
In this talk, Dr. Whitney Phillips (Communication Studies, Humboldt State University) will discuss her forthcoming book This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping […]
High-Impact Research strategies could help large and small projects to deepen human understanding of the natural and made worlds, so as to promote sustainable use […]
| 4-5 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building Speaker: Victor Knoop, Assistant Professor, Transport & Planning, Delft University of Technology Sponsors: Institute of Transportation Studies, […]
As the process of capturing natural gas through hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” expands nationally, it has come under fire for its impact on water quality […]
This talk describes a new architecture for distributed flash flood and traffic monitoring in cities using combined Eulerian and Lagrangian sensing. Unlike current traffic sensor […]
Gagan Biyani, Co-Founder and CEO, Sprig; and Co-Founder of Udemy Matt Kent, Co-Founder and Engineering Lead, Sprig Join us for refreshments and conversation with Gagan […]
Paul Waddell teaches and conducts research on modeling and planning in the domains of land use, housing, economic geography, transportation, and the environment. He has […]
Ed Abbo is currently President and Chief Technical Officer of C3 Energy, which offers smart grid analytics SaaS solutions that enable utilities to realize the […]
Universal access is an important goal of technology. This talk examines several evolving voting technologies and their impact on persons with cognitive and physical disabilities. […]
http://berc.berkeley.edu/innovation-expo/ The Innovation Expo is a research showcase that opens and connects the enormous wealth of leading-edge energy research from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National […]
http://berc.berkeley.edu/innovation-expo/ For seven consecutive years, the BERC Energy Conference has convened leading stakeholders for to tackle the world’s most pressing energy challenges. The prestigious event […]
>Play, the premier student-led technology conference in the country, is proud to be hosting its second annual hackathon! Join with your friends or form at […]
>Play, the premier student-led technology conference in the country, is proud to be hosting its second annual hackathon! Join with your friends or form at […]
Accelerating Innovation in Energy Efficiency From October 20-22, more than 500 stakeholders in the energy efficiency and demand response emerging technologies sector will gather for […]
Knowing and seeing is not the same thing. — Regula Bochsler, Artist When man-made images constitute the evidence of our environment and even our existence, […]
Steven Johnson is the author of eight books on the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. He has also co-created three influential web sites: […]
The Queerness and Games Conference Theme: “Difference at Play” UC Berkeley, October 25 and 26, 2014 qgcon.com // @qgcon // qgconference@gmail.com Register at eventbrite. The […]
As director of informatics research at the UC Davis Health System, Nick Anderson does research into the effective uses of biomedical data, information and knowledge […]
As web applications get increasingly complex to support sophisticated business functionalities, an emerging class of vulnerabilities, which are referred to as logic vulnerabilities (a.k.a, logic […]
The current progress of embedded computation and communication technologies are pushing several systems toward increased levels of autonomy. Transportation systems, in particular, are experiencing a […]
Technology innovation has always been the engine that has enabled new space mission capabilities. For interplanetary space exploration, nowhere has this been more evident in […]
The Breakthrough Prize symposia will offer a day of inspiring and enlightening conversations that will shine a light on the science behind the Breakthrough Prizes. […]
CITRIS is co-sponsoring an event in November that is designed to explore a new multi-leveled approach to speed up knowledge development and enter the fast […]
Human beings are big data. Analogous to computer code, human beings are uniquely defined by the information content held within the body and more specifically, […]
Crowd-sourcing labor markets (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk) are booming, because they enable rapid construction of complex work.ows that seamlessly mix human computation with computer automation. […]
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
What’s everyone talking about? They’re talking about data! Whether you’re interested in finance, gaming, travel, security, education, health care, commerce, or science, data will play […]
Richard Swart is the Director for the Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance at the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. Richard Swart leads […]
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
The Human Impacts Institute, German Consulate San Francisco, Transatlantic Climate Bridge Program of Germany, Bioneers, Impact Hub,Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Story Corps, and the Berkeley […]
An interdisciplinary symposium, presented by the Berkeley Population Center, together with the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging and the Department of Demography […]
“Hack for a Cause” — the 2nd annual Social Innovation Hackathon is partnering with Heifer International for 24 hours of hacking to end world hunger […]