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There are no two ways about it. We rely much too heavily on dirty energy sources, like oil and coal. Either we address this …
Moving Sustainable Technologies Out of the Lab and into the World
Professor Steven Glaser was recently named a TÜV SÜD Guest Professor and Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, at the Technical University of Munich, one of the premier universities in Germany. Glaser is leading a student workshop, “From Earthquakes to Acoustic Emissions: Non-destructive Testing in Engineering,” to take place in Munich from July 19 to 24.
CITRIS was recently awarded a $2.3 million U.S. Department of Energy American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) contract to develop a Distributed Intelligent Automated Demand Response (DIADR) management system for buildings. The purpose of the research is to achieve 30% peak demand reduction while still maintaining the building as a healthy, productive, and comfortable environment for the building occupants.
CITRIS is hiring for the position Associate Director of Development, Corporate & Foundation Relations.
CITRIS, in collaboration with Calit2 and the Institute for the Future, has launched a project aimed at developing a sustainable future for California over the next ten years and beyond. The diverse group of researchers will produce a comprehensive roadmap of key issues facing California.
Read EarthTimes article.
The Siemens corporation has made a generous donation of industrial
software to UC Berkeley. The attached documents provide details on the
software and an application (process) to obtain access to it. The
software will soon be installed on the CITRIS server. In addition, you
can also install the software locally in your lab (on your local
server). There are a total of 50 licenses and it is possible to
allocate multiple licenses to groups within your group. In addition to
the attached documentation, the following website has further information:
Thomas Nesbitt, CITRIS Chief Scientist and associate vice chancellor for strategic technologies and alliances for UC Davis Health System, has received the 2010 Leadership Award for the Advancement of Telemedicine from the American Telemedicine Association.
The CITRIS Newsletter (May 2010) focuses on art and technology: algorithms to depict thousands of opinions on several issues in one simple, two-dimensional animated illustration; and enabling computer animations to express themselves more richly.
UCSC scientist Marilyn Walker has been looking hard at how humans express themselves, not just at what they say–but also at how they say it–in an effort to develop algorithms that will enable computer animations to employ those same techniques to express themselves more richly and compellingly.
