The Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection comprises a set
of non commercial tools mainly developed at the Department of Energy's
(DOE) laboratories, sometimes in collaboration with universities. These
software tools aim to simplify the solution of common and important
computational problems, and have substantially benefited a wide range of
applications and fields in computational sciences.
CSE will use 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
This year's Big Ideas first prize of $13,000 went to the San Quentin All-access computer center project. Read more about it and the other prize winners.
Opinion Space, an experimental system for visualizing opinions and exchanging ideas, encourages people to express their opinions and lets them visualize where they stand relative to the diversity of other viewpoints.
Cisco has provided funding and equipment–and challenging real-world
problems–for teaching and research laboratories at the engineering school,
enabling UCSC students to work directly with Cisco engineers on networking
projects.
Secretary Pecresse visited the new CITRIS Tech Museum in Sutardja Dai Hall, where Ph.D. students demonstrated the Mobile Millennium technology for her.
Working on behalf of the city of San Francisco, UC Berkeley and
CITRIS-affiliated researchers recently released a comprehensive
evaluation of the city's public surveillance camera system, completed over seven
months.
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.
