CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
The current progress of embedded computation and communication technologies are pushing several systems toward increased levels of autonomy. Transportation systems, in particular, are experiencing a […]
Technology innovation has always been the engine that has enabled new space mission capabilities. For interplanetary space exploration, nowhere has this been more evident in […]
The Breakthrough Prize symposia will offer a day of inspiring and enlightening conversations that will shine a light on the science behind the Breakthrough Prizes. […]
CITRIS is co-sponsoring an event in November that is designed to explore a new multi-leveled approach to speed up knowledge development and enter the fast […]
Human beings are big data. Analogous to computer code, human beings are uniquely defined by the information content held within the body and more specifically, […]
Crowd-sourcing labor markets (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk) are booming, because they enable rapid construction of complex work.ows that seamlessly mix human computation with computer automation. […]
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
What’s everyone talking about? They’re talking about data! Whether you’re interested in finance, gaming, travel, security, education, health care, commerce, or science, data will play […]
Richard Swart is the Director for the Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance at the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. Richard Swart leads […]
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)
The Human Impacts Institute, German Consulate San Francisco, Transatlantic Climate Bridge Program of Germany, Bioneers, Impact Hub,Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Story Corps, and the Berkeley […]
An interdisciplinary symposium, presented by the Berkeley Population Center, together with the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging and the Department of Demography […]
“Hack for a Cause” — the 2nd annual Social Innovation Hackathon is partnering with Heifer International for 24 hours of hacking to end world hunger […]
UCSC has built the Cancer Genomics Hub (CGHub) for the US National Cancer Institute, designed to hold data for all major NCI projects. To date […]
The genius of the pioneers of the Internet was to keep the network of links and routers – the “plumbing” – dumb and minimal, placing […]
A Panel of Local Innovators
With special guest Monica Lam. High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first “citizen reporters” as they roam the country reporting on social and […]
An afternoon discussion and poster session Presented by students, faculty and staff from the Global Urban Humanities program, CITRIS, BCNM, and the CITRIS Social Apps Lab During Fall 2014, […]
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Social Apps Lab at UC Berkeley create information technology solutions for many of […]
As more and more data moves to the cloud, data replication has become prohibitively costly and there is an acute need for efficient, fault-tolerant schemes […]
Materials research over the last three decades has led to significant advances in the manufacturing of new materials with tailored and unique properties for a […]