CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
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 […]
The California Pacific Public Health Training Center (CALPACT) and the Center for Health Leadership (CHL) are proud to present “Innovations in Problem Solving: New Tools […]
When it comes to communication, telling stories with images and video has a power few other mediums have. These engaging and increasingly shareable visual mediums […]
Registration is now open for the Innovation HealthJam, a collaborative brainstorming event that will be held online June 17-19, 2014. During the free, three-day virtual […]
MMDS 2014 (2014 Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets) will take place on the campus of UC Berkeley on June 17-20, 2014. Event: […]
A major technological hurdle in neuroprosthetics is the lack of an implantable neural interface system that remains viable for a lifetime. I will discuss the […]