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The theater performance by Gail de Kosnik and her colleagues at the annual Holiday Gala is now online.
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.
Traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area is bad. The Mobile Millennium gathers real-time data to make it better.
Dear Friends of CITRIS,
In this newsletter we are pleased to highlight two exciting projects that each address pressing needs for California and exemplify …
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, 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.
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 the recent TIER workshop are now online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/TIER.
The CoolClimate Calculator (http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu) has been developed by researchers at the Berkeley Institute of the Environment to help US households evaluate their complete climate footprints, including all direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, household energy, food, goods and services.
For more information and to apply for internship please contact: Tammy
Welcome at LBNL: TSWelcome@lbl.gov
Title: Student Assistant Position with IT Division at LBNL
Undergraduate or graduate position, <50% during academic year, 100%
during summer
