CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
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 […]