BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CITRIS and the Banatao Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:CITRIS and the Banatao Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://citris-uc.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CITRIS and the Banatao Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130715T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130715T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4592-1373875200-1373907600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Environmental Strategies for Peace and Nation Building\, Jul 15 DESCRIPTION:In many parts of the world\, rapid changes are occurring in both governance and the state of the environment. From social movements mobilized around environmental issues\, to large scale migrations driven by resource degradation\, to international efforts to develop technologies for climate change adaptation\, never before have the connections between environmental resources\, peace\, and stability been so striking and critical. \n On July 15\, 2013\, a panel of faculty experts and international practitioners will discuss how environmental issues are creating both challenges and opportunities for peace and nation building across the world. The panel is being held as part of the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program\, a three-week intensive course in the College of Natural Resources for international environmental professionals. The panel will consist of: \n • Rida Sherif. Faculty and Department Head\, Dept. of Natural Resources\, University of Tripoli\, Libya. \n • Dana Rassas. Cultural Affairs Specialist\, American Consulate General\, Jerusalem (Palestine) \n • Kate O’Neill. Professor of Environmental Science Policy and Management\, UC Berkeley. \n • Martha Saavedra. Associate Director\, Center for African Studies\, UC Berkeley. \n • George Breslauer (moderator). Professor of Political Science and Executive Vice Chancellor\, UC Berkeley. \n Date: July 15\, 2013 \n Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm \n Location: International House\, 2299 Piedmont Ave\, Berkeley\, CA 94720 \n Cost: Free (registration required) \n Registration: http://environmentalstrategiespanel.eventbrite.com/ \n Sponsored by: \n Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program \n College of Natural Resources \n UC Berkeley URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/environmental-strategies-for-peace-and-nation-building-jul-15/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130830T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130830T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4593-1377849600-1377882000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Internet\, Cybercrime and the Occult in Contemporary Ghana\, Aug 30 DESCRIPTION:is a PhD. candidate in communication at Paris 8 University and is currently a visiting student researcher at the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley. He holds a master’s degree in geography from Bordeaux 3 University and a master’s degree in cultural policy from Paris 8 University. He has done research on African musics in contemporary French cities and has recently been involved in an international comparative study on next generation networks deployment. His PhD. ethnographical research\, conducted in the context of a middle-sized city\, aims at drawing a social history of the Internet in Ghana with a particular emphasis on cybercrime. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/internet-cybercrime-and-the-occult-in-contemporary-ghana-aug-30/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130904T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130904T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140304T071633Z UID:4594-1378281600-1378314000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:What Big Data Can Tell You and Why It Matters\, Sep 4 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nAdvances in technology and the ever-growing role of digital sensors and computers in science have led to an exponential growth in the amount and complexity of data that scientists collect. We are at the threshold of an era in which hypothesis-driven science is being complemented with data-driven discovery. This alternate way to pursue research affects all fields\, from genomics in biology\, astrophysics\, to many domains in social sciences. \nThe data we collect are complex in size\, dimension\, and heterogeneity\, all three falling under the generic term “Big Data”. These data provide unprecedented opportunities for new discoveries; they also come with challenges that need to be addressed. I will discuss these opportunities and challenges with respect to three fronts\, namely Research\, Education\, and Infrastructure. \n——— \nThis semester marks the start of a new format for CITRIS seminars. The i4Energy seminar series will be included in the Research Exchange seminar series and held only on Wednesdays (seminars will no longer take place separately on Fridays). This format gives us chance to focus on each of our initiatives in turn\, bringing challenging speakers to discuss their research and join in an ongoing discussion at CITRIS. \n. \nAll talks may be viewed post-event on our YouTube channel \n. \nWebviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall \nWebviewing at UC Merced: SE1 138 \nWebviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/what-big-data-can-tell-you-and-why-it-matters-sep-4/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130904T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130904T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4596-1378281600-1378314000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Big Ideas@Berkeley Contest Information Session with Back to the Roots\, Sep 4 DESCRIPTION:Big Ideas@Berkeley is an annual innovation contest aimed at providing funding\, support\, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of UC undergraduate and graduate students who have “big ideas.” On September 4th\, Big Ideas will host a Contest Information Session with special guest Alejandro Velez\, Co-founder of Back to the Roots. \n Back to the Roots was founded by Alejandro and Nikhil Arora during their last semester as undergraduates at UC Berkeley in 2009. Excited by the idea of making food personal again\, Alejandro and Nikhil developed a plan to grow gourmet mushrooms from used coffee grounds\, and submitted their idea to the Big Ideas contest. That spring\, Back to the Roots was awarded a $5000 prize from Big Ideas—launching Alejandro and Nikhil’s plan to become urban mushroom farmers into action. \n To learn more about Alejandro’s inspiring story and how to enter this year’s Big Ideas@Berkeley contest\, join Big Ideas at their information session or visit bigideas.berkeley.edu. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/big-ideasberkeley-contest-information-session-with-back-to-the-roots-sep-4/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130911T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130911T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T202118Z UID:4597-1378886400-1378918800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Data-Driven Analytics in the Industrial Internet or How To Destroy My Job\, Sep 11 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nThe Industrial Internet is the third disruptive wave\, after the Industrial and the Internet revolutions. It is transforming our industries\, just like the Internet revolution transformed our commerce. In this new context\, we face a combination of hyper-connected intelligent machines\, interacting with other machines and people\, and generating large amounts data that need to be analyzed by descriptive\, predictive\, and prescriptive models. As a result\, we see the resurgence of analytics as a key differentiator for creating new services\, the emergence of cloud computing as an enabling technology for service delivery\, and the growth of crowdsourcing as a new phenomenon in which people play critical roles in creating information and shaping decisions in a variety of problems. We explore the intersection of these three concepts from the perspective of a machine-learning researcher and show how his job and roles have evolved over time. \nIn the past\, analytic model creation was an artisanal process\, as models were handcrafted by experienced\, knowledgeable model-builders. More recently\, the use of meta-heuristics\, such as evolutionary algorithms\, has provided us with limited levels of automation in model building and maintenance. In the future\, we expect data-driven analytic models to become a commodity. We envision having access to a large number of data-driven models\, obtained by a combination of crowdsourcing\, cloud-based evolutionary algorithms\, outsourcing\, in-house development\, and legacy models. In this context\, the critical issue will be model ensemble selection and fusion\, rather than model generation. \nWe address this issue by proposing customized model ensembles on demand\, inspired by Lazy Learning. In our approach\, referred to as Lazy Meta-Learning\, for a given query we find the most relevant models from a DB of models\, using their meta-information. After retrieving the relevant models\, we select a subset of models with highly uncorrelated errors (unless diversity was injected in their design process.) With these models we create an ensemble and use their meta-information for dynamic bias compensation and relevance weighting. The output is a weighted interpolation or extrapolation of the outputs of the models ensemble. The confidence interval around the output is reduced as we increase the number of uncorrelated models in the ensemble. This approach is agnostic with respect to the genesis of the models\, making it scalable and suitable for a variety of applications. \n—————- \nThis semester marks the start of a new format for CITRIS seminars. The i4Energy seminar series will be included in the Research Exchange seminar series and held only on Wednesdays (seminars will no longer take place separately on Fridays). This format gives us chance to focus on each of our initiatives in turn\, bringing challenging speakers to discuss their research and join in an ongoing discussion at CITRIS. \n. \nThe seminars are held in in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus\, and box lunches are provided *with registration*. \nRegistration for each event (by the Monday prior at 3pm) is required for lunch at UC Berkeley at \nLive broadcast at \n. Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE. All talks may be viewed post-event on our YouTube channel \n. \nWebviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall \nWebviewing at UC Merced: SE1 138 \nWebviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/data-driven-analytics-in-the-industrial-internet-or-how-to-destroy-my-job-sep-11/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130911T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130911T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4598-1378886400-1378918800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Roadmaps for powering states and countries for all purposes with wind\, water\, and sunlight\, Sep 11 DESCRIPTION:Energy and Resources Group Fall 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295) URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/roadmaps-for-powering-states-and-countries-for-all-purposes-with-wind-water-and-sunlight-sep-11/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130912T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130912T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4599-1378972800-1379005200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Can "Open Data" Improve Democratic Governance?\, Sep 12 DESCRIPTION:IBM Information Strategist\, Steve Adler will also deliver a keynote address. \n This one-day conference explores the impact of open data on public policy and democratic governance in the digital age. \n Open data\, social media\, geographic information systems\, wireless communications\, and mobile devices are transforming the relationship between government institutions at all levels and the constituents they represent. The open data movement\, fueled by technical innovations\, offers opportunities to increase accountability and citizen participation through greater transparency and by generating more effective\, crowd-sourced solutions to public problems. At the same time\, questions of access and inclusion must also be addressed. Which groups are enabled to participate by these tools and whose voices are omitted? \n Registration opens August 1. Please visit website to register: \n The entire conference schedule can be found at \n or \n . URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/can-open-data-improve-democratic-governance-sep-12/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130916T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130916T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4600-1379318400-1379350800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:ATC Lecture – Avatar Syndrome: Past Imperative\, Future Conditional\, Sep 16 DESCRIPTION:Avatar Syndrome has come to refer to the intense longings experienced by fans of the 2009 James Cameron film for the depicted planetary moon Pandora and its Na’vi humanoids. Fans report subsequent depression and even suicidal tendencies because\, as one online post declared\, “you know you can never actually go to Pandora\, as it exists only in our imagination… sigh… :(” \n Avatar represents a current apex of imaging technologies\, even as it depicts a colonial fantasy of sublime nature and noble savages that is closer to that of the mythologized Pocahontas\, whose 1614 marriage to John Rolfe was the first recorded inter-racial marriage in America. \n This talk will consider deSouza’s own art and text works in relation to similar intersections of future-making technologies and past-reproducing fantasies\, nostalgias for authenticity and disciplinary cross-contaminations. \n Allan deSouza recently joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practices. Previously he was Chair of New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute. His photography\, mixed-media installation\, text and performance works restage historical evidence through counter-strategies of fiction\, erasure\, and (mis)translation. DeSouza has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally\, including at the Gwangju Biennale\, Korea; 3rd Guangzhou Triennale\, China; the Pompidou Centre\, Paris; and the Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam; with recent solo exhibitions at Talwar Gallery\, Delhi; SF Camerawork; the Fowler Museum\, Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, SF; and the Phillips Collection\, Washington\, DC. His fiction and critical writings have appeared in various catalogues\, journals and anthologies\, including Shifter Journal\, NY; Earth Matters (National Museum of African Art)\, Washington\, DC; Third Text\, London; and X-TRA\, Los Angeles. He is the recipient of a recent Rockefeller Foundation Residency at Bellagio\, Italy; a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist’s Grant; and a California Community Foundation/Getty Fellowship Artist’s Award. \n The ATC series is produced by the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)\, with support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Provost\, the Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)\, Meyer Sound and Theo Armour. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/atc-lecture-avatar-syndrome-past-imperative-future-conditional-sep-16/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130916T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130916T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4601-1379318400-1379350800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:ATC Lecture – Avatar Syndrome: Past Imperative\, Future Conditional\, Sep 16 DESCRIPTION:Avatar Syndrome has come to refer to the intense longings experienced by fans of the 2009 James Cameron film for the depicted planetary moon Pandora and its Na’vi humanoids. Fans report subsequent depression and even suicidal tendencies because\, as one online post declared\, “you know you can never actually go to Pandora\, as it exists only in our imagination… sigh… :(” \n Avatar represents a current apex of imaging technologies\, even as it depicts a colonial fantasy of sublime nature and noble savages that is closer to that of the mythologized Pocahontas\, whose 1614 marriage to John Rolfe was the first recorded inter-racial marriage in America. \n This talk will consider deSouza’s own art and text works in relation to similar intersections of future-making technologies and past-reproducing fantasies\, nostalgias for authenticity and disciplinary cross-contaminations. \n Allan deSouza recently joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practices. Previously he was Chair of New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute. His photography\, mixed-media installation\, text and performance works restage historical evidence through counter-strategies of fiction\, erasure\, and (mis)translation. DeSouza has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally\, including at the Gwangju Biennale\, Korea; 3rd Guangzhou Triennale\, China; the Pompidou Centre\, Paris; and the Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam; with recent solo exhibitions at Talwar Gallery\, Delhi; SF Camerawork; the Fowler Museum\, Los Angeles; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, SF; and the Phillips Collection\, Washington\, DC. His fiction and critical writings have appeared in various catalogues\, journals and anthologies\, including Shifter Journal\, NY; Earth Matters (National Museum of African Art)\, Washington\, DC; Third Text\, London; and X-TRA\, Los Angeles. He is the recipient of a recent Rockefeller Foundation Residency at Bellagio\, Italy; a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist’s Grant; and a California Community Foundation/Getty Fellowship Artist’s Award. \n The ATC series is produced by the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)\, with support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Provost\, the Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)\, Meyer Sound and Theo Armour. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/atc-lecture-avatar-syndrome-past-imperative-future-conditional-sep-16-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130917T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130917T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4602-1379404800-1379437200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Energy Research Symposium\, Sep 17 DESCRIPTION:The i4Energy is a nexus\, bringing multi-disciplinary minds together to create information technology advances for our multi-layered energy challenges. i4Energy is a collaboration among CITRIS (U.C. Berkeley\, Davis\, Merced\, and Santa Cruz); the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE); and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The research collaboration is focused on creating an integrated information infrastructure that will transform our energy grid into a cooperative\, “aware” energy network that is both efficient and able to use sustainable energy resources. \n The Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute (BECI) provides a coordinating hub for all of Berkeley’s energy and climate efforts to ensure the integration of science\, engineering\, social science\, market\, and policy research. Specific programs launched in 2011 include the Cal Energy Corps\, a program created to engage UC Berkeley students in the design\, development and delivery of sustainable energy and climate solutions around the world\, the Innovation Seed Fund\, a fund that supports multi-disciplinary research by UC Berkeley faculty as well as the Berkeley Energy and Climate Lectures. \n The Symposium will present on-going energy research at the i4Energy and the Berkeley Climate Change Institute. Sponsors of the research include the CEC\, DOE\, NSF\, and private industry. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/energy-research-symposium-sep-17/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4603-1379577600-1379610000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Climate Change and Health IdeaLab Meeting\, Sep 19 DESCRIPTION:Join the (new) Climate Change and Health IdeaLab for our first meeting of the semester. This group provides a forum for campus members (students\, postdocs\, faculty\, staff) interested in the intersections of climate change and public health to find collaborators\, explore complex interdisciplinary issues\, share new research and learn together. \n Join us for an informal mixer as we discuss our plans for the year\, set up reading groups\, and begin projects in these areas. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/climate-change-and-health-idealab-meeting-sep-19/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4604-1379577600-1379610000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Sep 19 DESCRIPTION:Internet privacy has become a hot topic recently with the radical growth of Online Social Networks (OSN) and attendant publicity about various leakages. For the last several years we have been examining aggregation of user’s information by a steadily decreasing number of entities as unrelated Web sites are browsed. I will present results from several studies on leakage of personally identifiable information (PII) via Online Social Networks and popular non-OSN sites. Linkage of information gleaned from different sources presents a challenging problem to technologists\, privacy advocates\, government agencies\, and the multi-billion dollar online advertising industry. Economics might hold the key in increasing transparency of the largely hidden exchange of data in return for access of so-called free services. I will also talk briefly about doing privacy research at scale. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-sep-19/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130919T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4605-1379577600-1379610000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Sep 19 DESCRIPTION:Internet privacy has become a hot topic recently with the radical growth of Online Social Networks (OSN) and attendant publicity about various leakages. For the last several years we have been examining aggregation of user’s information by a steadily decreasing number of entities as unrelated Web sites are browsed. I will present results from several studies on leakage of personally identifiable information (PII) via Online Social Networks and popular non-OSN sites. Linkage of information gleaned from different sources presents a challenging problem to technologists\, privacy advocates\, government agencies\, and the multi-billion dollar online advertising industry. Economics might hold the key in increasing transparency of the largely hidden exchange of data in return for access of so-called free services. I will also talk briefly about doing privacy research at scale. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-sep-19-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130923T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130923T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4606-1379923200-1379955600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Algorithm Design for Map-Reduce\, Sep 23 DESCRIPTION:This talk will be broadcast from CITRIS@Merced: mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/ucmerced \n Abstract: \n After a brief review of how map-reduce works\, we shall look at the trade-off that needs to be made when designing map-reduce algorithms for problems that are not embarrassingly parallel. In particular\, the less data that one reducer is able to handle\, the greater the total amount of data that must be communicated from mappers to reducers. We can view this trade-off as a function that gives the “replication rate” (average number of copies of an input communicated from mappers to reducers) in terms of the “reducer size” (number of inputs that can be accommodated at a reducer). For some interesting problems\, including matrix multiplication and finding bit strings at Hamming distance 1\, we can get precise lower bounds on this function\, and also match the lower bounds with algorithms that achieve the minimum replication rate for a given reducer size. \n Biography: \n Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford and CEO of Gradiance Corp. He received the B.S. degree from Columbia University in 1963 and the PhD from Princeton in 1966. Prior to his appointment at Stanford in 1979\, he was a member of the technical staff of Bell Laboratories from 1966-1969\, and on the faculty of Princeton University between 1969 and 1979. From 1990-1994\, he was chair of the Stanford Computer Science Department. Ullman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012\, and has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships. He has received the Sigmod Contributions Award (1996)\, the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1998)\, the Knuth Prize (2000)\, the Sigmod E. F. Codd Innovations award (2006)\, and the IEEE von Neumann medal (2010). He is the author of 16 books\, including books on database systems\, compilers\, automata theory\, and algorithms. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/algorithm-design-for-map-reduce-sep-23/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130925T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130925T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4607-1380096000-1380128400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Driverless Cars: From Foresight to Concept\, Sep 25 DESCRIPTION:The talk describes how General Motors thinks about the longer term future and how it then applies that thinking to set research priorities and to develop future product concepts. Recent work in Urban Mobility and on Aging Drivers will be used as case studies to show the process and results of this work. \n Rick Holman leads the GM Global Trends Network\, a group focused on the future of the business and the world it serves. Working for major corporations Rick has held leadership positions in technology deployment\, change management\, organizational learning and strategy development. For the last 20 years he has been advising business leaders about the future and how to apply future thinking to innovation and strategic business decisions. Currently he leads a global cross-functional GM team that meets regularly to better understand emerging trends and their potential impact on the business. \n ———— URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/driverless-cars-from-foresight-to-concept-sep-25/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130925T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130925T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4608-1380096000-1380128400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:the First Five Kilobytes Are the Hardest\, Sep 25 DESCRIPTION:George Dyson\, author of Turing’s Cathedral\, the On the Same Page selection for 2013\, will give the keynote lecture to kick off this fall’s program. \n Dyson is an author\, boatbuilder\, designer\, and historian of technology whose interests have included the development (and redevelopment) of the Aleut kayak (Baidarka\, 1986)\, the evolution of digital computing and telecommunications (Darwin Among the Machines\, 1997)\, and a path not taken into space (Project Orion\, 2002). His latest book\, Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (2012)\, illuminates the transition from numbers that mean things to numbers that do things in the aftermath of World War II. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-first-five-kilobytes-are-the-hardest-sep-25/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4609-1380182400-1380214800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Sep 26 DESCRIPTION:Three years ago\, browsers started to add Do Not Track features\, and users flocked to the Do Not Track approach. Business\, however\, was not so eager. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) gathered over 100 stakeholders to come to a consensus decision of what a site should do when a user asks not to be tracked. Aleecia was the initial co-chair of the effort\, and remained an active participant. Later\, she launched the Cookie Clearinghouse to increase user choice around third party cookies\, with an open invitation to the world to join a user group or business council\, and a small Advisory Board. In this talk\, Aleecia will discuss how both projects evolved over time\, and some of the challenges faced by both business and users in want of privacy. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-sep-26/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4610-1380182400-1380214800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Sep 26 DESCRIPTION:Three years ago\, browsers started to add Do Not Track features\, and users flocked to the Do Not Track approach. Business\, however\, was not so eager. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) gathered over 100 stakeholders to come to a consensus decision of what a site should do when a user asks not to be tracked. Aleecia was the initial co-chair of the effort\, and remained an active participant. Later\, she launched the Cookie Clearinghouse to increase user choice around third party cookies\, with an open invitation to the world to join a user group or business council\, and a small Advisory Board. In this talk\, Aleecia will discuss how both projects evolved over time\, and some of the challenges faced by both business and users in want of privacy. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-sep-26-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4611-1380182400-1380214800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Acing the Turing Test: AI and What Makes Us Human\, Sep 26 DESCRIPTION:As part of the On the Same Page program\, distinguished panelists will discuss the Turing test and how it fosters the exploration of the boundaries between human and artificial intelligence. Panelists will describe the development of Berkeley’s own version of the test\, the Turing Test Tournament\, and discuss how being a participant could change your perception of what it means to be human. \n The panel discussion will be followed by an informal reception with refreshments\, where attendees can meet and chat with the panelists and other guests. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/acing-the-turing-test-ai-and-what-makes-us-human-sep-26/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130926T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4612-1380182400-1380214800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Acing the Turing Test: AI and What Makes Us Human\, Sep 26 DESCRIPTION:As part of the On the Same Page program\, distinguished panelists will discuss the Turing test and how it fosters the exploration of the boundaries between human and artificial intelligence. Panelists will describe the development of Berkeley’s own version of the test\, the Turing Test Tournament\, and discuss how being a participant could change your perception of what it means to be human. \n The panel discussion will be followed by an informal reception with refreshments\, where attendees can meet and chat with the panelists and other guests. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/acing-the-turing-test-ai-and-what-makes-us-human-sep-26/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130927T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130927T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4613-1380268800-1380301200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Sol-Char: Development of a solar thermal toilet technology for improved sanitation\, Sep 27 DESCRIPTION: URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/sol-char-development-of-a-solar-thermal-toilet-technology-for-improved-sanitation-sep-27/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130927T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130927T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4614-1380268800-1380301200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:The Net: Utopia vs. Dystopia\, Sep 27 DESCRIPTION:Join us for an enlightening and provocative evening as we explore the Internet’s double-edged sword: its ability to spread knowledge and democracy and its potential risk to civil liberties and personal freedoms. This exciting evening will feature prominent speakers with diverse viewpoints on the impact the Internet has had on business\, entertainment\, and our society at large. Speakers include: Larry Sonsini ’66\, chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Libby Leffler\, Strategic Partner Manager\, Global Influencers at Facebook; whurley\, co-founder of Chaotic Moon; Jeremy Howard\, president & chief scientist of Kaggle; John Riccitiello\, private investor\, prior CEO of Electronic Arts; and Chris Hoofnagle\, Director\, Information Privacy Programs\, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. \n \, Chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati\, has gained international recognition for his expertise in the areas of corporate law\, corporate governance\, securities\, and mergers and acquisitions. He has been instrumental in many of the most notable IPOs\, mergers\, acquisitions\, and other key transactions of Silicon Valley and beyond. \n In addition to his duties at the firm\, which included serving as chief executive officer for more than 30 years as well as chairman\, Larry served as a member of the NYSE’s board of directors from 2001 to 2003 and he was chairman of the NYSE’s Regulation\, Enforcement and Listing Standards Committee until 2008. He also teaches securities law at UC Berkeley School of Law\, where he received his JD in 1966\, and at Stanford Law School. \n leads a global partnerships team focused on high-impact integrations with influencers\, executives\, world leaders\, nonprofits\, and media organizations on Facebook and Instagram. Libby also manages partnerships at Facebook with public figures\, athletes\, musicians\, and celebrities in India\, Korea\, Singapore\, and Japan. Libby was the co-anchor of “Facebook Live”\, the company’s official video streaming channel\, during the 2011 and 2012 World Economic Forum meetings in Davos\, Switzerland. \n From 2009-2012\, Libby was the Business Lead to Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer\, Sheryl Sandberg. As the Business Lead to the Chief Operating Officer\, Libby managed public appearances\, speaking engagements\, and handled a wide array of projects including research and analysis initiatives. Libby joined Facebook in 2008 as a member of the Inside Sales team. Prior to Facebook\, Libby worked in Online Sales and Operations and Asia-Pacific and Latin America markets at Google. \n Libby graduated with high honors from the University of California at Berkeley and was a UC Berkeley Alumni Leadership Scholar. She was awarded the Young Bear Award\, a prize given by the Chancellor of the University of California to a young alumnus demonstrating outstanding achievement and service. Libby holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the Walter A. Haas School of Business. \n Libby serves on the boards of UCSF Partners in Care and San Francisco Symphony’s Symphonix League. Libby topped Business Insider’s list of the 30 Most Important Women in Tech Under 30. \n has been called a visionary systems theorist\, a mad scientist\, and an evil genius (International Genius). What he is\, is innovative. Over his 20-year career\, whurley has demonstrated a talent for innovation and a passion for open source software. In 2010 he co-founded Chaotic Moon\, a leading mobile development and strategy company\, and quickly built a portfolio of A-list clients. Names like Microsoft\, CBS Sports\, Sanrio\, Pizza Hutt\, and News Corp\, for whom Chaotic Moon developed the first iPad-only digital newspaper. \n In 2011 he could have stood pat. Instead he doubled down\, helping launch Chaotic Moon Labs to focus on “innovation on demand.” As General Manager of the lab in 2012\, he created what Wired Magazine described as “the best of CES\,” an all-terrain skateboard controlled by hand motions. Powered by an Xbox Kinect™ and a Samsung tablet\, the board achieved an exhilarating top speed of 32 mph. For dessert\, he built a mind-controlled version that Jason Bradbury\, host of the Europe’s The Gadget Show\, said was “. . . like something out of a science fiction movie” and “comic book crazy.” \n He then created a rapid prototype of the shopping cart of the future. The Smarter Cart™ not only guided customers to items at Whole Foods’ flagship store\, it also scanned their food to help manage their dietary needs\, notify them of FDA food recalls\, and accelerate their check-out. \n Today whurley keeps the world’s top brands decades ahead of the curve\, predicting not only the next iteration\, but delivering on the demands of the next generation. \n is a serial entrepreneur\, business strategist\, developer\, and educator. He is the President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle and is also the youngest faculty member at Singularity University\, where he teaches data science. He was the founding CEO of two successful self-funded Australian startups (FastMail\, and Optimal Decisions Group)\, both of which grew internationally and were sold to large international companies. He spent 8 years in management consulting at the world’s most exclusive firms\, including McKinsey & Co\, and AT Kearney (becoming the youngest engagement manager world-wide\, and building a new global practice in what is now called “Big Data”). He is also a keen student\, for example developing a new system for learning Chinese\, which he used to develop usable Chinese language skills in just one year. Jeremy has mentored and advised many startups\, and is also an angel investor. He has contributed to a range of open source projects as a developer\, and is also in demand as an expert commentator on various TV news programs. \n is a private investor. He also serves on the Board of the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and on the Board of Councilors for the USC School of Cinematic Arts. \n Until March of 2013\, Mr. Riccitiello served as the CEO of Electronic Arts. Mr. Riccitiello originally joined EA in October 1997 as President and Chief Operating Officer. He was President during a period of dynamic growth — with his help EA grew market share\, diversified its product portfolio and strengthened the company’s international business. He left the company in 2004 to become a founding partner and managing director of Elevation Partners\, a private equity partnership focused on the media and entertainment sector. He returned to EA as CEO in 2007\, reorganized the company and re-committed EA to leading the industry in quality and innovation and by leading EA’s transformation from a packaged goods game company to one leading in mobile\, online and could / digital gaming. During this time the company has seen an aggregate increase in game quality\, and saw its online\, mobile and digital revenues grow to exceed $1.6 billion in revenues. Prior to joining Electronic Arts\, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the worldwide bakery division at Sara Lee Corporation. He also served as President and CEO of Wilson Sporting Goods Co. and held executive positions at Haagen-Dazs\, PepsiCo\, Inc. and The Clorox Company. \n Mr. Riccitiello holds a Bachelors of Science degree from University of California\, Berkeley. Mr. Riccitiello lives with his wife and children in the San Francisco Bay Area. \n research focuses upon the structure of legal and economic relationships that lead to tensions between firms and individuals\, manifested through information privacy problems\, gaps in understanding of legal protections\, deficits in consumer law protections\, and the problem of financial fraud. \n Hoofnagle has written extensively in the fields of information privacy\, the law of unfair and deceptive practices\, consumer law\, and identity theft. His recent work includes\, The Price of Free\, 61 UCLA L. Rev. ___ (2014) (with Jan Whittington)\, Unpacking Privacy’s Price\, 90 North Carolina L. Rev. 1327 (2012) (with Jan Whittington)\, and Behavioral Advertising: The Offer You Cannot Refuse\, 6 Harvard L. & Policy Rev. 273 (2012). He has also written on payments technologies with a focus upon mobile payments\, consumer attitudes toward and knowledge of privacy law\, identity theft\, the first amendment\, and the government’s reliance on private-sector databases to investigate citizens. \n At Berkeley Law\, Hoofnagle has taught computer crime law\, information privacy law\, cyberlaw\, and a course on Federal Trade Commission regulation of privacy. \n Hoofnagle is principal investigator (with Dean Shankar Sastry) on a NSF-funded effort to promote graduate education for students who have been educationally or economically disadvantaged\, and an investigator on three other NSF projects focusing upon computer security\, social factors in computer misuse\, and privacy and security issues in future internet architectures. \n With his brother Mark\, Hoofnagle defined the contours of “denialism\,” which is now used in the academic literature to frame some debates on environmental and HIV/AIDS policy. \n Hoofnagle co-chairs the annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference. He is a member of the AAUP and serves on its committee on Academic Freedom and Electronic Communications\, a subcommittee of Committee A. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-net-utopia-vs-dystopia-sep-27/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130930T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130930T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4615-1380528000-1380560400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Reimagining the Urban\, Sep 30 DESCRIPTION:Reimagining the Urban is a daylong symposium examining art\, nature\, economic development and equity in the Bay Area metropolis. Artists\, curators\, real estate developers\, environmentalists and social justice advocates will gather to discuss the uses and abuses of the region’s creative and natural resources. \n For schedule\, registration\, and more information about the event\, please visit the Reimagining the Urban website: \nhttp://reimaginingtheurban.wordpress.com. \n Speakers: \n Ric Ambrose (Richmond Art Center) \n Teresa Caldeira (City and Regional Planning\, UC Berkeley) \n Lauren Dietrich Chavez (We Players) \n Margaret Crawford (Architecture\, UC Berkeley) \n Deborah Cullinan (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) \n Nicholas de Monchaux (Architecture and Urban Design\, UC Berkeley) \n Raquel Gutierrez (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) \n Shannon Jackson (Rhetoric\, Theater\, Dance\, and Performance Studies\, and Arts Research Center\, UC Berkeley) \n Jake Levitas (San Francisco Mayor’s Office) \n Brad McCrea (San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission) \n Marina McDougall (Center for Art & Inquiry\, The Exploratorium) \n Judy Nemzoff (San Francisco Arts Commission) \n Rebecca Novick (Triangle Lab\, California Shakespeare Theater) \n Elvin Padilla (950 Center for Art & Education) \n Louise Pubols (Oakland Museum of California) \n Ava Roy (We Players) \n Linda Rugg (Scandinavian\, UC Berkeley) \n Susan Schwartzenberg (Independent Artist) \n Susan Schweik (English\, UC Berkeley) \n Joel Slayton (ZERO1) \n Andy Wang(5M Project\, Forest City) URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/reimagining-the-urban-sep-30/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131002T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131002T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140304T072837Z UID:4616-1380700800-1380733200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Robotic Surgery – Engineering from a Surgeon’s Perspective\, Oct 2 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nRobotic surgery has made considerable strides in the last 15 years. FDA-approved robotic systems have revolutionized surgery by giving surgeons better visualization and precision. However\, even with the most sophisticated systems\, the limitations of surgical robotics are clear to the surgeons who use them. Technologies that are new or greatly improved in the past decade can make possible a new generation of surgical robotics\, which in turn\, would give new capabilities to skilled surgeons and result in better outcomes to patients. \nAdvances in a range of technologies that may benefit robotic surgery include the incorporation of force feedback which will reduce surgical errors such as the accidental penetration of organs and suture breakage\, and tactile sensation which would give surgeons the “feel” of open surgery while working with robotic “hands” through keyhole incisions. \nTo take surgery to the next level\, visualization beyond the surface of organs is the obvious next step. With current robotic systems\, while surgeons seated at consoles away from the patient have magnified and 3-D views inside the patient’s body\, they are not able to see inside organs and tissues. Real-time imaging using biosensors would facilitate dissection at a subsurface level. \n——— \nSusan Lim is a Singaporean surgeon who performed the first successful liver transplant in Singapore in 1990. \nIn 2003 Lim started the biotechnology company Stem Cell Technologies. The following year she became a Fellow of Trinity College (University of Melbourne). She is the youngest and first Singaporean to receive this honor. \nLim established the Indiapore Trust with her husband Deepak Sharma and her friend Satpal Khattar. The trust issued $50\,000 to the Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund\, which assists struggling parents to meet their children’s school expenses. The trust has also donated a science laboratory to Raffles Junior College and provided scholarships to underprivileged children in Singapore and India. \nLim sits on the Global Advisory Council of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. In April 2011 she gave a presentation at TED on Transplanting Cells\, Not Organs. \nIn October 2011 Lim was included in The University of Newcastle’s book 100 Women\, which celebrates the achievements of 100 remarkable and inspirational women\, both in Australia and globally \n————– \nFree and open to the public\, the Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly roundtable of presentations and discussions that highlight ways to frame and tackle societal-scale research issues in health care\, energy\, infrastructure\, data & democracy and many other topics. \nWe require registration if you would like to reserve a free lunch for this seminar. You’re welcome to walk-in to attend the seminar as registration is not necessary\, but lunch will not be provided for guests without a ticket. Feel free to bring your own lunch (coffee and soda are not allowed in the auditorium). \nLive broadcast at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast or \nhttps://citris-uc.org/events/webcast \nAsk questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE \nWebviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall \nWebviewing at UC Merced: SE 100 \nWebviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/robotic-surgery-engineering-from-a-surgeons-perspective-oct-2/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131008T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131008T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4618-1381219200-1381251600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Story of Stuff\, Oct 8 DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wondered where does all your stuff come from and where it goes when you throw it away? \n An organization called “Story of Stuff” was created 6 years ago to understand exactly that (they began in the city of Berkeley!). During these years\, they have become an extraordinary movement\, have produced 10 extremely successful short movies and have excited millions of viewers worldwide (www.storyofstuff.com). \n They are considered by many the leading Sustainability organization in the nation. We are very lucky to be hosting their Director of Operations\, Renee Shade\, who will show us their latest short movie “Story of Solutions” (10-15 minutes)\, tell us about her organization and answer your questions. \n Snacks will be provided! URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/story-of-stuff-oct-8/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131008T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131008T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4619-1381219200-1381251600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Story of Stuff\, Oct 8 DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wondered where does all your stuff come from and where it goes when you throw it away? \n An organization called “Story of Stuff” was created 6 years ago to understand exactly that (they began in the city of Berkeley!). During these years\, they have become an extraordinary movement\, have produced 10 extremely successful short movies and have excited millions of viewers worldwide (www.storyofstuff.com). \n They are considered by many the leading Sustainability organization in the nation. We are very lucky to be hosting their Director of Operations\, Renee Shade\, who will show us their latest short movie “Story of Solutions” (10-15 minutes)\, tell us about her organization and answer your questions. \n Snacks will be provided! URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/story-of-stuff-oct-8-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131009T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131009T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4620-1381305600-1381338000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Counting and Coordinating: How People Track their Personal Finances\, Oct 9 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \n Many of the resources on the web for thinking about finances are focused on high-income\, high-experience investors. In this presentation\, I present a qualitative study of a diverse set of Bay Area residents without significant investment expertise\, ranging in ages from 25 to 69\, including millionaires\, unemployed people\, self-employed people\, and people with and without children. I describe the best practices we developed for exploring the sensitive topic of money in interviews. I will then discuss three sets of findings: how money influence how people think about themselves; the tools they use to track finances; and the ways they plan for the future. I conclude by discussing directions for better tools to help people understand and manage their money and financial decisions. \n ———- \n This semester marks the start of a new format for CITRIS seminars. The i4Energy seminar series will be included in the Research Exchange seminar series and held only on Wednesdays (seminars will no longer take place separately on Fridays). This format gives us chance to focus on each of our initiatives in turn\, bringing challenging speakers to discuss their research and join in an ongoing discussion at CITRIS. \n . \n The seminars are held in in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus\, and box lunches are provided *with registration*. \n Registration for each event (by the Monday prior at 3pm) is required for lunch at UC Berkeley at \n Live broadcast at \n . Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE. All talks may be viewed post-event on our YouTube channel \n . \n Webviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall \n Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 138 \n Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/counting-and-coordinating-how-people-track-their-personal-finances-oct-9/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131009T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131009T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4621-1381305600-1381338000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Counting and Coordinating: How People Track their Personal Finances\, Oct 9 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \n Many of the resources on the web for thinking about finances are focused on high-income\, high-experience investors. In this presentation\, I present a qualitative study of a diverse set of Bay Area residents without significant investment expertise\, ranging in ages from 25 to 69\, including millionaires\, unemployed people\, self-employed people\, and people with and without children. I describe the best practices we developed for exploring the sensitive topic of money in interviews. I will then discuss three sets of findings: how money influence how people think about themselves; the tools they use to track finances; and the ways they plan for the future. I conclude by discussing directions for better tools to help people understand and manage their money and financial decisions. \n ———- \n This semester marks the start of a new format for CITRIS seminars. The i4Energy seminar series will be included in the Research Exchange seminar series and held only on Wednesdays (seminars will no longer take place separately on Fridays). This format gives us chance to focus on each of our initiatives in turn\, bringing challenging speakers to discuss their research and join in an ongoing discussion at CITRIS. \n . \n The seminars are held in in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus\, and box lunches are provided *with registration*. \n Registration for each event (by the Monday prior at 3pm) is required for lunch at UC Berkeley at \n Live broadcast at \n . Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE. All talks may be viewed post-event on our YouTube channel \n . \n Webviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall \n Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 138 \n Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/counting-and-coordinating-how-people-track-their-personal-finances-oct-9-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131009T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131009T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4622-1381305600-1381338000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Net Time Negotiations within the Family\, Oct 9 DESCRIPTION:Based on interviews with high school students living in agricultural California\, this research examines how American families negotiate access to digital information resources or “net time.” Attention is paid to how socioeconomically disadvantaged families attempt to cope with resource scarcities-especially internet access necessary for schoolwork and college applications. The analysis reveals how intra-familial bargaining is guided by implicit social contracts between family members. These social contracts imply particular rights and responsibilities\, depending on the families’ level of material resources. Different social contracts are evident across the economic spectrum. Some social contracts frame net time as an individualized good while others frame it as a communal good. The findings illuminate the logics underpinning familial negotiations over each kind of net time. Ultimately\, familial social contracts over net time have the power to encourage or hinder use of net time for capital-enhancing activities. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/net-time-negotiations-within-the-family-oct-9/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131011T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131011T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T050029 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4623-1381478400-1381510800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:BERC Energy Symposium\, Oct 11 DESCRIPTION:The BERC Symposium is the largest student run Energy conference on the west coast. The full day conference brings together key players from the research\, business\, policy\, and economics communities. The event will be held in the I-House Auditorium and Cal Memorial Stadium\, running from 9am to 6pm on Friday October 11. Buy your tickets today! http://berc.berkeley.edu/tickets/ URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/berc-energy-symposium-oct-11/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR