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April 2008 Newsletter

Dear Friends of CITRIS:

The two projects featured in our newsletter demonstrate the tremendous power of
technology for social impact. It is exciting and …

Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy, July 7 – 11, 2008

The Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy (GTEA)
provides science and engineering research faculty, post-docs and doctoral
students with the necessary knowledge and skills to move environmentally
sustainable and green technology research out of the laboratory and into
practice.

Graduate Student’s work featured in MoMA Exhibit

Matthew Scullin, Graduate Student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Berkeley, is part of a collaborative exhibit currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Intel and Microsoft launch Par Lab at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley is partnering with Intel and
Microsoft to accelerate developments in parallel computing and advance the
powerful benefits of multi-core processing to mainstream consumer and business
computers.

Demand Response Presentations Online

The Demand Response Enabling Technology Development project (DR ETD) held a meeting of its Technical Advisory Committee on February 19, 2008. Presentations of this meeting […]

Carbon calculator debuts

The latest edition of the CoolClimate Calculator shows people as well as cities and businesses how their lifestyles contribute to
global warming and identifies areas where they can reduce their footprint.

Digital education and air monitoring projects win awards

An online mystery game in which student sleuths will monitor air pollution in
South Central Los Angeles and in Cairo, Egypt, and a project using cell phones
to teach English to children in India have won funding for two UC Berkeley professors