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