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SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Jan 30
DESCRIPTION: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 our work towards developing a secure client-side for web applications. I will discuss three directions: secure protocols\, secure applications and secure user experience. First\, we present work on providing a formal foundation for web security protocols. We formalize the typical web attacker model and identify two broadly applicable security goals. We also identify an abstraction of the web platform that is amenable to automated analysis yet able to express subtle attacks missed by humans. Using a model checker\, our work automatically identified a previously unknown flaw in a widely used Kerberos-like authentication protocol for the web. \nSecond\, we present work on improving assurance in client-side web applications. We identify pervasive over-privileging in client-side web applications and present a new architecture that relies on privilege separation to mitigate vulnerabilities. Our design uses standard primitives and enables a 6x to 10000x reduction in the trusted computing base with only 13 lines modified. \nLastly\, we present the results of a large-scale measurement study to empirically asses whether browser security warnings are as ineffective as popular opinion suggests. We used Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome’s in-browser telemetry to observe over 25 million warning impressions in situ. Our results demonstrate that security warnings can be effective in practice; security experts and system architects should not dismiss the goal of communicating security information to end users.and secure interaction design to achieve this vision. \nDevdatta is a graduate student interested in computer security working on security of software\, primarily focused on web application security. He is part of Dawn Song’s research group at UC Berkeley. Devdatta is also an invited expert on the W3C’s Web Application Security Working Group. More details\, including how to pronounce his name\, are on his homepage: devd.me
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-jan-30/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140131T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140131T170000
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SUMMARY:Photonic Lab-on-a-Chip: Merging Photonics and Microfluidics\, Jan 31
DESCRIPTION: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 methods. This entails reliability\, sensitivity and specificity of the analytical systems. Although electrochemical and mechanical approaches are common\, optical detection remains predominant\, mainly due to its non-invasiveness\, high sensitivity and small footprint.  \nIn this respect\, many research groups – including our own – have concentrated their efforts in developing photonic lab-on-a-chip (PhLoC). \nIn this seminar we will show how it is possible to implement advanced PhLoC with an outstanding level of integration\, but only requiring a maximum of two\, non-critical photolithographic steps. Here\, using only polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)\, air and buffer as constituent materials\, high quality micro-optical elements can be defined together with arbitrarily complex microfluidic networks. \nSeveral examples from our lab research will be presented\, including more advanced configurations. In the last part of this seminar\, new approaches will also be introduced\, such as the electrically tunable 1×5 optofluidic router for on-chip light routing. Such system can redirect light from an optical input channel into five output channels by exploiting liquid–liquid mirrors\, which are aligned using integrated electrowetting-on- dielectrics (EWOD) actuators.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/photonic-lab-on-a-chip-merging-photonics-and-microfluidics-jan-31/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T170000
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SUMMARY:Technology for Patient Decision Making and Provider Choice\, Feb 5
DESCRIPTION: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 \nThe schedule for the semester can be found on the CITRIS site.  \nWebviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall\nWebviewing at UC Merced: SSM 317\nWebviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B \nRegistration through eventbrite is required for lunch at UC Berkley.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/technology-for-patient-decision-making-and-provider-choice-feb-5/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T170000
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SUMMARY:Feb 5 - NSA Spying\, Snowden\, and Sparking Change
DESCRIPTION: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\, technology and civil liberties director at the ACLU of Northern California. \nWe will be exploring the latest updates related to NSA spying — what we now know\, what we still don’t know\, and opportunities in Congress\, the courts\, companies\, and in communities to rein in warrantless surveillance and better safeguard privacy and free speech.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/nsa-spying-snowden-and-sparking-change-feb-5/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140205T080000
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SUMMARY:Community Cellular Networks in Rural Papua\, Indonesia\, Feb 5
DESCRIPTION: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 new model of telephony\, Community Cellular Networks\, where local entrepreneurs operate their own independent networks in rural areas currently without coverage. In this talk\, Dr. Heimerl will discuss Community Cellular Networks and the implementation of one such such network in the highlands of Papua\, Indonesia. \nDr. Kurtis Heimerl is a postdoctoral researcher working under Prof. Eric Brewer in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Prof. Tapan Parikh in the iSchool. His work focuses primarily on cellular systems and their intersection with international development. He won Best Paper at the CM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) for his work on kiosk-based crowdsoucing systems and won the community award at the 10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) for his work on cellular systems for rural areas. He has also worked on the Metamouse group learning program. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley last year.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/community-cellular-networks-in-rural-papua-indonesia-feb-5/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140206T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140206T200000
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SUMMARY:HTNM Lecture – Lisa Nakamura "Indigenous Circuits"\, Feb 6
DESCRIPTION: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 series promotes new\, interdisciplinary approaches to questions about the uses\, meanings\, causes\, and effects of rapid or dramatic shifts in techno-infrastructure\, information management\, and forms of mediated expression.\nThe History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series is produced by the Berkeley Center for New Media with support from CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society). \nLisa Nakamura is a Professor in the Department of American Cultures and the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Her research interrogates both the performance of and assumptions embedded in representations of race and ethnicity in digital media\, particularly within gaming cultures. These issues are at the forefront of her books “Race After the Internet” (co-edited with Peter Chow-White)\, “Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet\,” and “Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Identity on the Internet.” Nakamura is currently investigating transnational racialized labor and avatarial capital in a “postracial” world through the lens of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/htnm-lecture-lisa-nakamura-indigenous-circuits-feb-6/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140207T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140207T170000
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SUMMARY:View from the Top\, Feb 7
DESCRIPTION: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 semester in our View from the Top lecture series. Mr. Siebel will speak on New Business Formation. Having served in leadership positions in four successful technology startups including Oracle\, Gain Technology\, Siebel Systems and C3 Energy\, he will share his thoughts about the ideation\, planning and operation of successful information technology companies.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/view-from-the-top-feb-7/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140211T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140211T170000
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SUMMARY:Games-Serious or Otherwise-for and about Archaeology and Cultural Heritage\, Feb 11
DESCRIPTION: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 the design of computer games that are based in data of archaeological research and cultural heritage management and the interpretations of the past.\nStarting point: Champion\, Erik (2011) Playing with the Past. Springer\, London. \nErik Champion is internationally renowned and respected in the field of the use of computer gaming in learning\, research\, and broader interest contexts of archaeology\, history\, and cultural heritage. Trained originally in architecture\, his Ph.D. dissertation in 2006 from the University of Melbourne was on Evaluating Cultural Learning in Virtual Environments\, using the archaeological and cultural heritage site of Palenque\, Mexico\, as a test-case. In 2013 he became Professor of Cultural Visualization in the School of Media Culture and Creative Arts\, in the Humanities Faculty of Curtin University\, Perth\, Australia. Prior to that he was Project leader in new Digital Humanities Lab Denmark\, a consortium of four Danish universities\, where he was hosted at Aarhus University. Here he worked with EU research infrastructures and projects acting as the “Research and Public Engagement” leader for DARIAH.eu. From 2008 to 2011 he was Associate Professor in the School of Design\, College of Creative Arts\, Massey University\, New Zealand. In his 2011 book Playing with the Past (Springer-Verlag) Dr.Champion discusses the construction of virtual environments\, place-making\, cultural presence\, game-style interaction\, interactive narratives\, serious games\, and architectural visualization in the context of past cultural contexts of heritage\, history\, and archaeology. These same research themes are discussed in his edited book Game Mods: Design\, Theory and Criticism (ETC Press\, 2012)\, and numerous other book chapters\, journal articles\, and conference papers that may be found in: http://erikchampion.wordpress.com/. Erik is currently working on a book “Critical Gaming and Digital Humanities” for Ashgate Publishing Group’s Digital Humanities Series. The topic of these talks owe their origin to material that he wrote in a book chapter for the Oxford University Press Handbook on Virtuality. \n—\nOther talks by Erik Champion this week:\nWednesday\, February 12\, 2014: ARF Brownbag Lecture: “Heritage Via Games and Game Mods” 2251 College Avenue\, Room 101\nThursday\, February 13\, 2014 Off Campus Talk: “Cultural Heritage and Surround Displays\, VR and Games for the Humanities” MOVES Institute\, Naval Postgraduate School\, Monterey.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/games-serious-or-otherwise-for-and-about-archaeology-and-cultural-heritage-feb-11/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T170000
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SUMMARY:Breaking the Habits of Economic Growth: an Imperative for a Low Carbon Transformation\, Feb 12
DESCRIPTION: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 world has led to a habituation to not only high levels of materials and resources used in everyday practices\, but to a habituation to expansion itself. Neither energy and climate change theorists nor policy makers have engaged with the culture of capitalism. Mainstream policy is putting all of its effort into making sustainability happen within an expansionist frame.  \nThe record shows that several decades of efforts to reduce energy use and carbon emissions in growth economics such as those of the OECD countries have not been successful\, while at the same time rapidly expanding economies elsewhere are using energy and emitting carbon in step with their economic growth.  \nUsing examples from home energy\, transport and food\, I will articulate the relationship between the politics of expansion and the formation of high-energy habits at the level of family and household. It will elaborate a theory of habits and reflect on the politics of unlocking low energy habits. A transformative policy will entail a reassessment of a macro-economic framing which assumes that growth and markets will do the strategic restructuring for us. It will involve support for emerging community-based actions around the world\, both real and virtual\, that are engaged forming collaborative practices and reestablishing shared ownership. \n————— \nLive broadcast at  http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast. Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel  \nThe schedule for the semester can be found on the CITRIS site.  \nWebviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall\nWebviewing at UC Merced: SSM 317\nWebviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B \nRegistration through eventbrite is required for lunch at UC Berkley.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/breaking-the-habits-of-economic-growth-an-imperative-for-a-low-carbon-transformation-feb-12/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T170000
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SUMMARY:Heritage Via Games and Game Mods\, Feb 12
DESCRIPTION: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 games using historical events or mythological happenings.\nMy central argument is that despite apparent initial barriers\, both students and teachers (and academics in general) can learn from the actual process of game design\, and from watching people play. Theorists learn about the entangled issues of game design\, the politics of user testing\, and the designer fallacy (I designed the game\, I know how best to experience it\, if the audience can’t work it out there is something wrong with them\, not the design). Students\, in turn\, can begin to understand (perhaps) how theory\, good theory\, can help open eyes\, inspire new design and turn description into prescription. There are of course even more dilemmas and difficulties for visualizing and interacting with history and with heritage\, and with moving from easily accessible commercial games and open source games\, to larger Virtual Reality centres\, planetariums and museums\, but it has been done\, with some significant successes.\nThis talk will touch on and move past projects mentioned in the following and free to download book: Champion\, Erik (Ed.). (2012). Game Mods: Design\, Theory and Criticism. Pittsburgh: ETC Press. URL: http://press.etc.cmu.edu/content/game-mods \nErik Champion is internationally renowned and respected in the field of the use of computer gaming in learning\, research\, and broader interest contexts of archaeology\, history\, and cultural heritage. Trained originally in architecture\, his Ph.D. dissertation in 2006 from the University of Melbourne was on Evaluating Cultural Learning in Virtual Environments\, using the archaeological and cultural heritage site of Palenque\, Mexico\, as a test-case. In 2013 he became Professor of Cultural Visualization in the School of Media Culture and Creative Arts\, in the Humanities Faculty of Curtin University\, Perth\, Australia. Prior to that he was Project leader in new Digital Humanities Lab Denmark\, a consortium of four Danish universities\, where he was hosted at Aarhus University. Here he worked with EU research infrastructures and projects acting as the “Research and Public Engagement” leader for DARIAH.eu. From 2008 to 2011 he was Associate Professor in the School of Design\, College of Creative Arts\, Massey University\, New Zealand. In his 2011 book Playing with the Past (Springer-Verlag) Dr.Champion discusses the construction of virtual environments\, place-making\, cultural presence\, game-style interaction\, interactive narratives\, serious games\, and architectural visualization in the context of past cultural contexts of heritage\, history\, and archaeology. These same research themes are discussed in his edited book Game Mods: Design\, Theory and Criticism (ETC Press\, 2012)\, and numerous other book chapters\, journal articles\, and conference papers that may be found in: http://erikchampion.wordpress.com/. Erik is currently working on a book “Critical Gaming and Digital Humanities” for Ashgate Publishing Group’s Digital Humanities Series. The topic of these talks owe their origin to material that he wrote in a book chapter for the Oxford University Press Handbook on Virtuality. \n—\nEvents Planned for Erik Champion visit\nMonday 10 February\, 2014. 4pm-6.00pm. “What is Virtual Heritage?” Kroeber\nHall\, Gifford Room. \nTuesday 11 February 10.30-12.30pm. “Workshop: Games ­ serious or\notherwise ­ for and about archaeology and cultural heritage” 2224\nPiedmont Avenue\, MACTiA lab (room 12) \nWednesday 12 February\, 2014. 12noon-1pm. “Heritage Via Games and Game\nMods” Archaeological Research Facility Lunchtime series:\n2251 Building\, Room 101. \nThursday 13 February\, 2014. 12noon. “Cultural Heritage and Surround\nDisplays\, VR and Games for the Humanities OR Immersive Digital\nHumanities: When The Motion Tracker is Mightier Than The Pen” Modeling\,\nVirtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Institute\, Naval\nPostgraduate School\, Monterey.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/heritage-via-games-and-game-mods-feb-12/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T170000
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SUMMARY:Air Pollution Kills! So What? Air Quality Engineering to Improve Public Health\, Feb 12
DESCRIPTION:Energy and Resources Group Spring 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/air-pollution-kills-so-what-air-quality-engineering-to-improve-public-health-feb-12/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140212T200000
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Foundry Demo Day 2014
DESCRIPTION: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 for all 5 teams to provide short presentations about their companies and showcase their accomplishments. They will be available to discuss both their experiences working in The Foundry and being involved in a Berkeley startup. \nWe would like to invite our mentors\, friends\, and the Berkeley community to join us for an evening of food\, drinks\, and casual celebration. See how our companies have grown over the past year. And if you’re ready to launch your own startup\, come find out what it means to be part of the CITRIS Foundry community. \nFor more information about the CITRIS Foundry\, visit http://foundry.citris-uc.org. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/foundry-citris-demo-day/
LOCATION:Kvamme Atrium\, Sutardja Dai Hall\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Foundry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140213T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140213T170000
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SUMMARY:Cultural Heritage and Surround Displays\, VR and Games for the Humanities\, Feb 13
DESCRIPTION: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 in particular\, cultural heritage? Which issues in cultural heritage and interacting with historical content need to be kept in mind by VR experts when working with humanities scholars? And are there key concepts and research developments in the VR field that humanities scholars should be more aware of? Or are the fields of interaction design and (digital) humanities converging? \nErik Champion is internationally renowned and respected in the field of the use of computer gaming in learning\, research\, and broader interest contexts of archaeology\, history\, and cultural heritage. Trained originally in architecture\, his Ph.D. dissertation in 2006 from the University of Melbourne was on Evaluating Cultural Learning in Virtual Environments\, using the archaeological and cultural heritage site of Palenque\, Mexico\, as a test-case. In 2013 he became Professor of Cultural Visualization in the School of Media Culture and Creative Arts\, in the Humanities Faculty of Curtin University\, Perth\, Australia. Prior to that he was Project leader in new Digital Humanities Lab Denmark\, a consortium of four Danish universities\, where he was hosted at Aarhus University. Here he worked with EU research infrastructures and projects acting as the “Research and Public Engagement” leader for DARIAH.eu. From 2008 to 2011 he was Associate Professor in the School of Design\, College of Creative Arts\, Massey University\, New Zealand. In his 2011 book Playing with the Past (Springer-Verlag) Dr.Champion discusses the construction of virtual environments\, place-making\, cultural presence\, game-style interaction\, interactive narratives\, serious games\, and architectural visualization in the context of past cultural contexts of heritage\, history\, and archaeology. These same research themes are discussed in his edited book Game Mods: Design\, Theory and Criticism (ETC Press\, 2012)\, and numerous other book chapters\, journal articles\, and conference papers that may be found in: http://erikchampion.wordpress.com/. Erik is currently working on a book “Critical Gaming and Digital Humanities” for Ashgate Publishing Group’s Digital Humanities Series. The topic of these talks owe their origin to material that he wrote in a book chapter for the Oxford University Press Handbook on Virtuality. \n—\nEvents Planned for Erik Champion visit\nMonday 10 February\, 2014. 4pm-6.00pm. “What is Virtual Heritage?” Kroeber\nHall\, Gifford Room. \nTuesday 11 February 10.30-12.30pm. “Workshop: Games ­ serious or\notherwise ­ for and about archaeology and cultural heritage” 2224\nPiedmont Avenue\, MACTiA lab (room 12) \nWednesday 12 February\, 2014. 12noon-1pm. “Heritage Via Games and Game\nMods” Archaeological Research Facility Lunchtime series:\n2251 Building\, Room 101. \nThursday 13 February\, 2014. 12noon. “Cultural Heritage and Surround\nDisplays\, VR and Games for the Humanities OR Immersive Digital\nHumanities: When The Motion Tracker is Mightier Than The Pen” Modeling\,\nVirtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Institute\, Naval\nPostgraduate School\, Monterey.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/cultural-heritage-and-surround-displays-vr-and-games-for-the-humanities-feb-13/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140215T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140215T170000
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SUMMARY:Create Your Bot Hackathon\, Feb 15
DESCRIPTION: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! \nRegister for the Create Your Bot Hackathon to discover how you can create and upgrade your chatbots for use in the Turing Test Tournament. Not only will you be able to pit your bot against others at ttt.berkeley.edu\, but you can also win great prizes for your bot’s performance! Bruce Wilcox\, winner of the 2010 and 2011 Loebner Prize with his Chatbots Suzette and Rosette\, will be returning to judge the competition and assist in the creation of your bot.  \nFood and refreshments will be provided\, and winning teams will receive Amazon gift cards. \nThe Turing Test Tournament is an online chat game for UC Berkeley’s incoming class of 2013 co-developed by the Berkeley Center for New Media and the On the Same Page program. Launched in August 2013\, the Turing Test Tournament is the UC Berkeley chat-based version of Alan Turing’s famous test for machine intelligence.  \nRegister at bcnm.berkeley.edu. If you’d like to find out more about the project or are interested in sponsoring TTT\, please contact us at team.ttt@berkeley.edu.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/create-your-bot-hackathon-feb-15/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140218T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140218T170000
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SUMMARY:The Surveillance Economy and Extreme Income Inequality: You Can't Have One Without the Other\, Feb 18
DESCRIPTION: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 physics. He collaborates with a wide range of scientists in fields related to these interests.  \nLanier’s name is also often associated with Virtual Reality research. He either coined or popularized the term ‘Virtual Reality’ and in the early 1980s founded VPL Research\, the first company to sell VR products. In the late 1980s he led the team that developed the first implementations of multi-person virtual worlds using head mounted displays\, for both local and wide area networks\, as well as the first “avatars\,” or representations of users within such systems. While at VPL\, he and his colleagues developed the first implementations of virtual reality applications in surgical simulation\, vehicle interior prototyping\, virtual sets for television production\, and assorted other areas. He led the team that developed the first widely used software platform architecture for immersive virtual reality applications. Sun Microsystems acquired VPL’s seminal portfolio of patents related to Virtual Reality and networked 3D graphics in 1999. \nFrom 1997 to 2001\, Lanier was the Chief Scientist of Advanced Network and Services\, which contained the Engineering Office of Internet2\, and served as the Lead Scientist of the National Tele-immersion Initiative\, a coalition of research universities studying advanced applications for Internet2. The Initiative demonstrated the first prototypes of tele-immersion in 2000 after a three-year development period. From 2001 to 2004 he was Visiting Scientist at Silicon Graphics Inc.\, where he developed solutions to core problems in telepresence and tele-immersion. He was Scholar at Large for Microsoft from 2006 to 2009\, and Partner Architect at Microsoft Research from 2009 forward. \nLanier has received honorary doctorates from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Franklin and Marshall College\, was the recipient of CMU’s Watson award in 2001\, was a finalist for the first Edge of Computation Award in 2005\, and received a Lifetime Career Award from the IEEE in 2009 for contributions to Virtual Reality.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-surveillance-economy-and-extreme-income-inequality-you-cant-have-one-without-the-other-feb-18/
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SUMMARY:Crowdsourcing in Policy-Making: The Impact of Blended Expertise on Law-Making Process\, Feb 19
DESCRIPTION: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 reform was opened for public participation in Finland by the Ministry of the Environment. The citizens were first asked to share their experiences and problems with off-road traffic and the regulating law on an online platform. \nThen the participants were asked to share solutions for those problems. Crowdsourcing resulted into 500 ideas\, over 4\,000 comments and 24\,000 votes\, which were analyzed and evaluated both by the crowd by using a new tool called CrowdConsensus and by a globally distributed expert panel. The talk discusses deliberative aspects in crowdsourcing and the usefulness of blended expertise\, i.e. the mixture of the crowd’s and experts’ knowledge\, in law-making. Furthermore\, the talk discusses the concepts of representation and legitimacy in a crowdsourced policy-making process. \nThe Finnish experiment is one of the first empirical studies about crowdsourcing in legislative processes. Such democratic innovations hold the potential to improve citizen empowerment and participation in the age of democratic recession and deteriorating political institutions. More about the Finnish experiment\nhere: http://thegovlab.org/seven-lessons-from-the-crowdsourced-law-reform-in-finland/ \n*Tanja Aitamurto* is a visiting researcher at the Data and Democracy Initiative at UC Berkeley. The Data and Democracy Initiative is at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). Previously she studied at the Program on Liberation Technology at the Center on Democracy\, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford. She examines how collective intelligence\, whether harvested by crowdsourcing\, co-creation or open innovation\, impacts processes in journalism\, public policy making and design process. Her work has been published in several academic publications\, such as the New Media and Society. Related to her studies\, she advises the Government and the Parliament of Finland about Open Government principles\, for example about how open data and crowdsourcing can serve democracy. \n——–\nLive broadcast at  http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast. Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel \nThe schedule for the semester can be found on the CITRIS site.  \nWebviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall\nWebviewing at UC Merced: SSM 317\nWebviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B \nRegistration through eventbrite is required for lunch at UC Berkley.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/crowdsourcing-in-policy-making-the-impact-of-blended-expertise-on-law-making-process-feb-19/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140219T170000
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SUMMARY:Microelectronics and Microprocessors: The Early Years\, Feb 19
DESCRIPTION: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 sixties and seventies. This lecture will illustrate the environment existing in the early years of the microelectronics revolution\, and describe the seminal inventions that produced in less than 10 years the first integrated circuit and the first microprocessor\, as experienced by one of the early pioneers\, Federico Faggin\, the co-inventor of the MOS silicon gate technology and co-inventor of the microprocessor — inventions that changed forever our way of life.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/microelectronics-and-microprocessors-the-early-years-feb-19/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140220T170000
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SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Feb 20
DESCRIPTION: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 of drugs\, weapons and money\, protecting endangered species\, forests and fisheries\, suppressing crime in urban areas or security in cyberspace. Unfortunately\, limited security resources prevent full security coverage at all times. Instead\, these limited security resources must be allocated and scheduled randomly and efficiently. The security resource allocation must simultaneously take into account an adversary’s response to the security coverage (e.g.\, an adversary can exploit predictability in security allocation)\, the adversary’s preferences and the potential uncertainty over such preferences and capabilities. \nComputational game theory can help us build decision-aids for efficient\, randomized security resource allocation. Indeed\, by casting the security allocation problem as a Stackelberg game\, we have developed new algorithms that have been deployed over multiple years in multiple applications: for security of ports and ferry traffic with the US coast guard (currently deployed in the ports of New York\, Boston\, Los Angeles/Long Beach and now being deployed at other ports)\, for security of airports and air traffic with the Federal Air Marshals (FAMS) and the Los Angeles World Airport (LAX) police\, and for security of metro trains with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) and the TSA\, with additional applications under development for protection of fisheries and wildlife. These applications are leading to real-world use-inspired research in the emerging research area of “security games”: these research challenges include scaling up of security games to large-scale problems\, handling significant adversarial uncertainty\, dealing with bounded rationality of human adversaries and other interdisciplinary challenges. I will provide an overview of my research’s group’s work in this area\, outlining key algorithmic principles\, research results\, as well as a discussion of our deployed systems and lessons learned. \nMilind Tambe is Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering at the University of Southern California(USC). He is a fellow of AAAI and ACM\, as well as recipient of the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award\, Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland security award\, the INFORMS Wagner prize for excellence in Operations Research practice and the Rist Prize of the Military Operations Research Society. Prof. Tambe has contributed several foundational papers in agents and multiagent systems; this includes areas of multiagent teamwork\, distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) and security games. For this research\, he has received the “influential paper award” from the International Foundation for Agents and Multiagent Systems(IFAAMAS)\, as well as with his research group\, best paper awards at a number of premier Artificial Intelligence Conferences and workshops; these have included multiple best paper awards at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems and International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. In addition\, the ”security games” framework and algorithms pioneered by Prof. Tambe and his research group are now deployed for real-world use by several agencies including the US Coast Guard\, the US Federal Air Marshals service\, the Transportation Security Administration\, LAX Police and the LA Sheriff’s Department for security scheduling at a variety of US ports\, airports and transportation infrastructure. This research has led to him and his students receiving the US Coast Guard Meritorious Team Commendation from the Commandant\, US Coast Guard First District’s Operational Excellence Award\, Certificate of Appreciation from the US Federal Air Marshals Service and special commendation given by the Los Angeles World Airports police from the city of Los Angeles. In addition\, for his research\, Prof. Tambe has received the IBM Faculty Award\, Okawa foundation faculty research award\, RoboCup scientific challenge award and USC Viterbi School of Engineering use-inspired research award. Finally\, for his teaching and service\, Prof. Tambe has received the USC Steven B. Sample Teaching and Mentoring award and the ACM recognition of service award. Recently\, he co-founded ARMORWAY\, a company focused on risk mitigation and security resource optimization\, where he serves on the board of directors. Prof. Tambe received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. \n 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-feb-20/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140222T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140222T170000
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SUMMARY:Urban Data Canvas Hackathon\, Feb 22
DESCRIPTION: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 we going to visualize real time data streams? \nWhat new ideas do you have to show the flow of multiple data streams\, and the possible correlations between them? What graphic or other displays can engage urban citizens in ongoing discussions about our air\, power\, water\, traffic\, and – connected to all these parameters – our lives? How can these displays speak to the “ground truth”\, and connect the data back to the source from which it originates? How can such displays enter the sightlines of the people who are the most affected by the data? What does it take for us to leverage our explorations of urban life? \nOn February 22nd\, we are hosting an application-only hack day to develop real time data visualization pieces for display in the public realm. You and your team will have 12 hours to conceive and execute a visualization based on real-time data streams. The jury will recommend projects to be further developed for display for up to two years on Market Street within the Urban Data Canvas project.\nReady to get your hands dirty? \nJoin swissnex San Francisco\, the Berkeley Center for New Media\, and GrayArea.org for a one day hackathon with Casey Reas\, the co-founder of processing.org. \nFor more information\, visit: www.urbandatachallenge.org \nApply before February 15th to attend: https://podio.com/webforms/6661292/516758
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/urban-data-canvas-hackathon-feb-22/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T170000
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SUMMARY:Civil Liberties\, Privacy\, and National Security: A Conversation with The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board\, Feb 26
DESCRIPTION: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 and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to discuss the importance of government transparency regarding counterterrorism efforts\, international issues raised by US surveillance programs\, the impact of NSA programs on US industry and the Internet\, and the Board’s role going forward. \n The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is a bipartisan independent federal agency. Chairman David Medine and board members Rachel Brand\, Elisebeth Collins Cook\, and James Dempsey will discuss the Board’s recent report and recommendations on the NSA telephony metadata program and reform of the operations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. \nReception to follow. \nAdvance registration required.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/civil-liberties-privacy-and-national-security-a-conversation-with-the-privacy-and-civil-liberties-oversight-board-feb-26/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140226T130000
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SUMMARY:Themes of California Water Plan Update: Integrate\, Align and Invest by Kamyar Guivetchi
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kamyar Guivetchi\, California Department of Water Resources \nTalk title: “Themes of California Water Plan Update: Integrate\, Align and Invest” \nLive broadcast at  http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast. Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE. \nFree and open to the public\, the Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly roundtable of presentations and discussions that highlights ways to frame and tackle societal-scale research issues. Registration is required for lunch at UC Berkeley.  \n\nWebviewing from other campuses: \n\nWebviewing at UC Davis: 1007 Kemper Hall\nWebviewing at UC Merced: SE 138  (NEW LOCATION)\nWebviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B\n\nWEBCAST URLS \n\nmms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast (WMV format)\nhttp://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast (Flash format)\n\n 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/themes-of-california-water-plan-update-integrate-align-and-invest-feb-26/
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\, Sutardja Dai Hall\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, 94720
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140303T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140303T170000
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SUMMARY:Data\, Society\, and Inference Seminar – Bin Yu\, Mar 3
DESCRIPTION: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 of document collections. Our framework\, concise comparative summarization\n(CCS)\, is built on sparse classification methods. It is a lightweight and flexible tool that offers a compromise between simple word frequency based methods currently in wide use and more heavyweight\, model-intensive methods such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). We argue that sparse methods have much to offer for text analysis and hope CCS opens the door for a new branch of research in this important field.  \nUsing news articles from the New York Times\, we validate our tool by designing and conducting a human survey to compare the different summarizers with human understanding. We demonstrate our approach with two case studies\, a media analysis of the framing of “Egypt” in the New York Times throughout the Arab Spring and an informal comparison of the New York Times’ and Wall Street Journal’s coverage of “energy.” \nOverall\, we find that the Lasso with L2 normalization can be effectively and usefully used to summarize large corpora\, regardless of document size. Finally\, I will present preliminary results in an on-going project to study the opinions of U.S. courts of appeal by using CCS in combination with LDA.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/data-society-and-inference-seminar-bin-yu-mar-3/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140304T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140304T170000
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SUMMARY:View from the Top\, Mar 4
DESCRIPTION:For more than a decade\, Olin College of Engineering has been exploring three questions with regard to engineering education: \n• Are we attracting the right people into engineering?\n• Are we teaching them the right material?\n• Are we using the most effective teaching methods? \nThis talk will present an overview of lessons learned in each area through experimentation at Olin College.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/view-from-the-top-mar-4/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140305T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140305T170000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20140326T171318Z
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SUMMARY:Innovations in Disaster Relief Work\, Mar 5
DESCRIPTION: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 Engineer with Palantir Technologies. He previously served as the CTC’s Director of Research and was a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point. Fishman is the author of a number of studies on terrorism and al-Qaeda\, including seminal investigations of al-Qaeda’s foreign fighters in Iraq and Iranian support for Shia militias fighting U.S. troops in Iraq. Fault Lines in Global Jihad: Organizational\, Strategic\, and Ideological Fissures\, a volume he co-edited with Assaf Moghadam\, was named one of the top books for understanding terrorist recruitment in Perspectives on Terrorism. \n—————\nLive broadcast at  http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast. Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel \nThe schedule for the semester can be found on the CITRIS site.  \nWebviewing at UC Davis: 1003 Kemper Hall\nWebviewing at UC Merced: SSM 317\nWebviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 595B \nRegistration through eventbrite is required for lunch at UC Berkley.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/innovations-in-disaster-relief-work-mar-5/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140305T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140305T170000
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SUMMARY:Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series\, Mar 5
DESCRIPTION: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 emerging regions. The series will consist of weekly seminars on a variety of research topics and disciplines\, and two faculty panels to foster discussions regarding Impact Analysis and Clean Water Initiatives.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/development-engineering-research-in-action-speaker-series-mar-5/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140305T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140305T170000
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SUMMARY:Revisiting the Fishers of Kerala\, India\, Mar 5
DESCRIPTION:Energy and Resources Group Spring 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/revisiting-the-fishers-of-kerala-india-mar-5/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T170000
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SUMMARY:Pan-Optics: Emerging Perspectives on Visual Privacy and Surveillance\, Mar 6
DESCRIPTION: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 digital age. The program will feature two keynote addresses and two panel discussions that will explore emerging surveillance technologies and applications across a range of contexts\, and then turn to resistant strategies employed by individuals and organizations in response. \n———–\nAdvances 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 new policy discussions among elected leaders. This symposium will highlight emerging perspectives on visual privacy and consider the state of the art from a variety of disciplines and professions\, including technology\, journalism\, filmmaking and the arts. \nThough traditionally considered separate domains\, visual and digital surveillance practices are being combined as machine vision\, facial recognition and other technologies become more sophisticated and interoperable. Institutional surveillance by semi-autonomous drones and remote cameras\, citizen video monitoring\, and incessant photo-sharing and tagging on social networks enable perpetual documentation. The same tools can be used for both transparency and repression.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/pan-optics-emerging-perspectives-on-visual-privacy-and-surveillance-mar-6/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T170000
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SUMMARY:TRUST Security Seminar\, Mar 6
DESCRIPTION: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 created unprecedented advances and are impacting every aspect of life and work. However\, many of these advances\, and resulting expanding markets\, are critically endangered by weaknesses in security\, integrity and trust. We investigate the complex and polymorphic subject of trust in these distributed systems and describe a new framework using multiple partially ordered semirings for analyzing reputation and trust establishment\, dynamics as well as “composite trust”. This framework is inspired by thinking of trust problems as “path problems” in networks. Next we describe our work based on constrained coalitional games towards understanding the role of trust in collaboration and social networks. We describe several specific applications of these methods in securing distributed inference systems\, sensor networks for power grids\, wireless network routing protocols\, distributed control systems. We close by describing challenges and future research directions. \nJohn Baras received his B.S. in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens\, Greece\, 1970 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University 1971\, 1973. Since 1973 he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department\, and the Applied Mathematics Faculty\, at the University of Maryland College Park. Since 2000 he has been a faculty member in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and since 2014 a faculty member in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He was the Founding Director of the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) from 1985 to 1991. Since 1991\, he has been the Director of the Maryland Center for Hybrid Networks (HYNET). Since 2013\, he has been Guest Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)\, Sweden. Baras is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He received the 1980 George Axelby Prize from the IEEE Control Systems Society and the 2006 Leonard Abraham Prize from the IEEE Communications Society. Professor Baras’ research interests include control\, communication and computing systems.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/trust-security-seminar-mar-6/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140306T163000
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SUMMARY:Pan-Optics: Perspectives on Digital Privacy and Surveillance
DESCRIPTION: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 new policy discussions among elected leaders. This symposium will highlight emerging perspectives on visual privacy and consider the state of the art from a variety of disciplines and professions\, including technology\, journalism\, filmmaking and the arts. Though traditionally considered separate domains\, visual and digital surveillance practices are being combined as machine vision\, facial recognition and other technologies become more sophisticated and interoperable. Institutional surveillance by semi-autonomous drones and remote cameras\, citizen video monitoring\, and incessant photo-sharing and tagging on social networks enable perpetual documentation. The same tools can be used for both transparency and repression. \nThis symposium will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines to discuss privacy protections\, surveillance methods\, and modes of resistance in a digital age. The program will feature two keynote addresses and two panel discussions that will explore emerging surveillance technologies and applications across a range of contexts\, and then turn to resistant strategies employed by individuals and organizations in response. \nFor Twitter\, please use #panoptics2014 \n Register now \nAgenda 10:30 Registration 11:00 Welcome 11-11:45 Keynote  Rebecca MacKinnon\, Senior Research Fellow\, New America Foundation\, Author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom Introduced by Warren Sack\, Associate Profressor\, UC Santa Cruz \n  \n  \n11:45-12:15 Lunch \n12:15-1:45 Panel 1 Visual Surveillance: Policy and Technology \n\nJennifer Lynch\, Electronic Frontier Foundation\nRaegan MacDonald & Michael Carbone\, Access\nJennifer Urban\, Samuelson Clinic for Law\, Technology & Public Policy\n\nThis panel brings together experts on the intertwined issues of evolving policies and emergent technologies. The increasing ubiquity of mobile devices\, popularity of sharing images through social media\, and powerful analytic software used by social networking companies and other corporations require new policy considerations. Panelists will explore the existing technological threats to individual privacy\, the extent to which new tools might be safeguarded against misuse by states and corporations\, and security concerns posed for both the public and private citizen. \n1:45 Coffee Break \n2-3:30 Panel 2 Creative Resistance: Reclaiming Citizen Power through Social Media & the Arts \n\nKatherine Chandler\, UCB Department of Rhetoric\, Berkeley Center for New Media\nKen Goldberg\, Faculty Director\, CITRIS Data & Democracy Initiative\, The Rashomon Project\nColin Milburn\, Director\, Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures\, UC Davis\nKriss Ravetto\, Director\, Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures\, UC Davis\nJulia Scher\, Multimedia Artist\n\nThe afternoon panel will transition from policy to response. To what extent are individuals responsible for safeguarding their own privacy? Do groups like Anonymous contribute to greater transparency or instead offer an alibi for further intrusions on the part of governments and corporations? How can the visual and performing arts call attention to the shifting landscape of visual surveillance and highlight new cultural practices and expectations of privacy? \n3:30-4:15 Keynote \nTrevor Paglen\, artist\, social scientist and author of Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes Introduced by Kris Fallon\, Visiting Assistant\, Professor\, UC Davis \n  \n  \n4:15 Closing Remarks by Camille Crittenden\, Director\, CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative \n4:30 Adjourn \n—-\nPresenting organizations \n       \n\nCITRIS\nData & Democracy Initiative\nUC Davis Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures\n\nA Satellite Event of              Hosted in conjunction with  \nCo-sponsors \n                  \n\nProgram on Liberation Technology\, Center on Democracy\, Development and the Rule of Law\, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies\, Stanford\nAccess\nHuman Rights Center\, Berkeley Law\nSamuelson Clinic for Law\, Technology & Public Policy\, Berkeley Law\nThe Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities\nBerkeley Center for New Media\nUC Berkeley School of Information\n\n _________________________________________________________ Refund Policy Due to the limited number of tickets available to our events we apply the following cancellation and refund policy: \n\nRequests for refunds received more than fourteen (14) working days prior to the date of the event will receive a full refund\nRequests for refunds received within fourteen (14) working days of the event date\, refund will not be given\n\nCancellation requests should be made via email or phone to: lorie@citris-uc.org or (510) 643-2217 If\, for any reason\, CITRIS has to cancel an event we will notify you by email if you have provided that information upon registration and will refund your ticket in full. —— Directions to CITRIS: https://citris-uc.org/contact/visitors
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/pan-optics-perspectives-on-digital-privacy-and-surveillance-mar-6/
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\, 330 Sutardja Dai Hall\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140312T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140312T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153628
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SUMMARY:Development Engineering: Research in Action Speaker Series\, Mar 12
DESCRIPTION: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 emerging regions. The series will consist of weekly seminars on a variety of research topics and disciplines\, and two faculty panels to foster discussions regarding Impact Analysis and Clean Water Initiatives.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/development-engineering-research-in-action-speaker-series-mar-12/
LOCATION:CA
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