Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG) kicks off the 2012-13 History and Theory of New Media lecture series with his talk “Applied Topology,” on burglary, tunneling, and urban […]

Cooling consumes nearly half of the energy in data centers, and cooling failures account for one-third of the outages in data centers. This seminar will […]

Sir Abed will share his experience founding BRAC, an organization that focused initially on helping refugees in northeastern Bangladesh, and now operates as an NGO […]

Recent advancements in low-cost acquisition technologies have made it more practical to acquire real-world datasets on a large scale. This has led to a number […]

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)

The College of Engineering presents the second View from the Top of the semester, featuring a panel of academic and industry experts speaking on Advancing […]

Thermostats are getting smarter, but are they doing their job of providing comfort and convenience to the occupant as well as managing energy consumption? This […]

Come get inspired and learn how to participate in the 2012-2013 Big Ideas@Berkeley Contest! Big Ideas provides funding support and encouragement to students with creative […]

, bringing multi-disciplinary minds together together to create information technology advances for our multi-layered energy challenges. i Energy is a collaboration among (U.C. Berkeley, Davis, […]

In this talk, I’ll focus on the deep motivations that drive so many to create, interact, and collaborate on Facebook, StackExchange, Wikipedia, Twitter, and countless […]

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)

Attempts to sell the smart grid to electricity consumers and taxpayers have understandably leaned toward promoting the “carrot” of customer-side applications and their benefits, the […]

Gina Neff is an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington. She studies the contemporary economics of media production by examining the relationship […]

Each panelist will choose an Ansel Adams image from the Fiat Lux collection. The audience will first have a chance to discuss their own observations […]

Last year, Stanford University offered three online courses, which anyone in the world could enroll in and take for free. Students were expected to submit […]

The ability to sense electrical quantities without the need for direct galvanic contact enables several exciting application in the area of pervasive energy monitoring and […]

Social media has changed the landscape of American politics. Candidates are using more sophisticated social media strategies and voters are communicating more actively among themselves. […]

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg explore the joy of revelation: the special electricity of seeing a city from the air, of hearing a secret, of […]

Energy and Resources Group/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Joint Faculty Candidate Job Talk

Energy and Resources Group/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Joint Faculty Candidate Job Talk

Jeff Hawkins will present the Hitchcock lectures on October 2 and October 3, 2012. The second lecture, titled “Intelligence and Machines: Creating Intelligent Machines by […]

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2012 Colloquium Series (ER295)

ABSTRACT: Millions of end users today have access to programmable environments such as spreadsheets and smartphones, but lack the programming expertise to write even small […]

This talk will present and critique a body of work evolving across several years of research at the intersection of computer science and participatory culture […]