Breakthrough Prize symposia live streaming

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. […]

Synthetic Biology Meets Organic Synthesis, Nov 10-12

Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States

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 […]

Medicine: A Big Data Revolution Occuring in Our Midst, Nov 12

250 Sutardja Dai Hall 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States

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, […]

Planning to Control Crowd-Sourced Workflows

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. […]

Data Dialogs

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 […]

Innovations in Entrepreneurial Finance, Nov 19

Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, Berkeley

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 […]

Human Impacts Bay Area: Innovations for the Climate Breakthrough

Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States

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 […]

Population Research in the Age of Big Data

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 […]

Social Innovation Hackathon

“Hack for a Cause” — the 2nd annual Social Innovation Hackathon is partnering with Heifer International for 24 hours of hacking to end world hunger […]

Big Data for Better Medicine, Dec 3

Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, Berkeley

UCSC has built the Cancer Genomics Hub (CGHub) for the US National Cancer Institute, designed to hold data for all major NCI projects. To date […]

Count Me In: Walking and the City

Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, Berkeley

An afternoon discussion and poster session Presented by students, faculty and staff from the Global Urban Humanities program, CITRIS, BCNM, and the CITRIS Social Apps Lab During Fall 2014, […]

CITRIS Mobile App Challenge Info Session + Ideation Summit 2015

242 Sutardja Dai Hall 242 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Social Apps Lab at UC Berkeley create information technology solutions for many of […]

Erasure Coding for Cloud Storage

As more and more data moves to the cloud, data replication has become prohibitively costly and there is an acute need for efficient, fault-tolerant schemes […]

Sackler Lecture in Astronomy

A glistening spaceship, with seven lonely years and billions of miles behind it, glides into orbit around a softly-hued, ringed planet. A flying-saucer shaped machine […]