Cognitive Computing for Utilities, Jan 22
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 […]
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
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 […]
Live broadcast at http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast. Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel The schedule for the semester can […]
Don’t miss what promises to be a very timely and engaging conversation with Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Nicole Ozer, […]
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 […]
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence. The […]
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)
The CITRIS Foundry is hosting very first Demo Day to celebrate the graduation of our 2013-14 cohort. The Demo Day will serve as an opportunity […]
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 […]
This talk reports on a study about the impact of crowdsourcing on a law-making process in Finland. In the studied process, the off-road traffic law […]
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 […]
Security is a critical concern around the world, whether it is the challenge of protecting ports, airports and other critical infrastructure, interdicting the illegal flow […]
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 […]
Speaker: Kamyar Guivetchi, California Department of Water Resources Talk title: "Themes of California Water Plan Update: Integrate, Align and Invest" Live broadcast at http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast. Ask questions […]
In this talk, we propose a general framework for topic-specific summarization of large text corpora and illustrate how it can be used for the analysis […]
For more than a decade, Olin College of Engineering has been exploring three questions with regard to engineering education: • Are we attracting the right […]
Brian Fishman is a counterterrorism research fellow at the New America Foundation, a Fellow with the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point, and Philanthropic […]
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 […]
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
This symposium will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines to discuss privacy protections, surveillance methods, and modes of resistance in a […]
We are in the age of networks and networked systems: communication, transportation, economic, biological, healthcare, educational, human, social, web-based, etc. This evolution and reality have […]
Advances in drone aircraft, networked cameras, and recent disclosures about the NSA’s international and domestic surveillance activities have stimulated public protests, outrage from activists, 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 […]
Join us for a talk by Steve Schiller. Schiller has thirty years of experience in the energy industry with a focus on demand-side energy efficiency, […]
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2013 Colloquium Series (ER295)
The California Pacific Public Health Training Center (CALPACT) and the Center for Health Leadership (CHL) are proud to present the upcoming lecture with Leonard Schaeffer, […]
Dr. Sutardja (M.S. ’85, Ph.D. ’88 EECS) will relate how he and his co-founders took Marvell Technology Group to global prominence in semiconductor innovation in […]
OpenROV is a open-source underwater robot. But it’s so much more. It’s also a community of people who are working together to create more accessible, […]
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 […]
Join us for a public forum where Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Marina Gorbis of the Institute for the Future, Dean Henry E. Brady of the Goldman School of […]
Hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the UC Berkeley School of Information, and the Berkeley Center for Law and […]
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. […]