A team of CITRIS-backed engineers, working with state regulators,
private industry, and policy experts, has fashioned a low-cost solution
to a billion-dollar energy problem.
Yahoo! today announced that it has expanded its partnerships with top
U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. The University
of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon University in using
Yahoo!’s cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale systems
software research and explore new applications that analyze
Internet-scale data sets, ranging from voting records to online news
sources.
CITRIS is proud to announce the fourth annual CITRIS White
Paper competition, which will give away $30K in cash prizes for the best ideas
that demonstrate the ability of IT to address a major societal challenge.
Professor and CITRIS Director Emeritus Ruzena Bajcsy was recently awarded the Franklin Institute's 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. Prof. Bajcsy received the award for contributions to robotics and computer vision, specifically the development of active perception and the creation of methods to improve our understanding of medical images.
The CITRIS headquarters building was dedication on February 27, 2009. The
newest research facility on the UC Berkeley campus, Sutardja Dai Hall is now
the new home of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest
of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute@CITRIS Berkeley. These photos
highlight the day’s festivities.
To celebrate their theme on "physics and technology," the Science@cal website features numerous CITRIS researchers and projects, including Steve Glaser, Sara McMains, Tsu-Jae King, and the Aravind Eye Hospital project.
The newest research facility on the campus of UC Berkeley was dedicated on Friday, Feb. 27, and embodies the innovation and entrepreneurship needed to fuel economic growth and arrives at a time when the state and nation seek relief from the recession. Photos and video