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CITRIS Research Exchange schedule
The spring semester schedule for the CITRIS Research Exchange is now online.
News
CITRIS study on SF public cameras released
UC Berkeley and CITRIS-affiliated researchers Jennifer King (School of Law), Professor Deirdre Mulligan (School of Information), and Professor Steven Raphael
(School of Public Policy) recently released a comprehensive evaluation
of San Francisco's public surveillance camera system.
Theater Performance at the 2008 Holiday Gala is online
The theater performance by Gail de Kosnik and her colleagues at the annual Holiday Gala is now online.
Robots Rush In: In Search-and-Rescue Operations Teamwork is Everything
Rushing into damaged buildings is dangerous and can endanger not
only rescue workers but also the victims they are working to save.
Sending in robots that are equipped with various kinds of sensors to do
reconnaissance is much safer, and these robots can search for signs of
life and report back to waiting operators.
Taming Traffic with Your Phone: The Mobile Millennium Project
Traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area is bad. The Mobile Millennium gathers real-time data to make it better.
December 2008 Newsletter
Dear Friends of CITRIS,
In this newsletter we are pleased to highlight two exciting projects that each address pressing needs for California and exemplify …
Big Ideas @ Berkeley Marketplace
The Big Ideas @ Berkeley marketplace allows individuals to
support undergraduate and graduate students who are passionate about tackling
major global, regional, and local challenges such as clean energy, the
environment, public health, safe drinking water, public policy, and
technology-based entrepreneurship.
Berkeley Computational Science and Engineering NEWS: NERSC made the No. 7 system in TOP500
Berkeley Computational Science and Engineering NEWS: NERSC made the No. 7 system in TOP500, Top Spot on Latest List of World’s TOP500 Supercomputers The No. 7 system, called Franklin, is the second new Cray XT5 system. It is installed at DOE’s NERSC Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and achieved 266.3 Tflop/s.
UC Berkeley and Nokia turn mobile phones into traffic probes with launch of pilot traffic-monitoring software
Drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area with GPS-enabled mobile phones can now tap into new technology that promises to transform traffic monitoring. Researchers have publicly released pilot software that turns cellular devices into mobile traffic probes providing real-time information on traffic flow and travel times. (Below: College of Engineering Dean Shankar Sastry opens this briefing to visitors and media.)
Presentations from TIER workshop
Presentations from the recent TIER workshop are now online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/TIER.