CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
Brenda 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, […]
A new medium is emerging: robots. For decades robots have been tasked to diligently perform a range of roles and duties within industrial manufacturing. But […]
Cancer 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today'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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 will be open on Cal Day on April 12, 2014! Highlights will include the PR2 Robot demo and our Tech Museum on the 3rd […]
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 […]
A central problem for all Californians is that there is often not enough water or too much. While the Mediterranean climate of cool wet winters […]
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 […]