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.)
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.
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and
the Computational Research Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory invite applications for the Luis
W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computational Science.
For more information and to apply visit: http://www.lbl.gov/CS/html/alvarez.html
The University of Copenhagen is hosting an
international scientific congress on climate change March 10-12, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Findings will be compiled in a book on climate
change, and an excecutive summary will be handed
over to policy makers at the COP15.
The Deadline for paper submissions for the Copenhagen Climate Congress is November 1, 2008.
Artist Sharon Daniel helps give disenfranchised groups, such as women prisoners and shantytown dwellers, access to technology to document their experiences.
Researchers at CITRIS have teamed up to develop a video game that can screen young children for fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental impairment.
