A new multidisciplinary research and education theme has been added to CITRIS's research grid. Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) provides a framework for enhanced support of collaborative research projects involving CSE researchers and students. The program will educate students to better perform and effectively execute computationally intensive research across many fields of science and engineering.
The CITRIS conference in June in Copenhagen focused on the
relationships among public policy, the role of business, and
technological means that could be used to fight global warming.
New materials under development by Ali Shakouri,
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, stand to convert energy now wasted as heat into a reusable new source of
electricity.
A new book co-authored by Berkeley Mechanical Engineering graduate student Joel Wilson and Prof. Paul Wright describes the development of new technologies to support first-responders more effectively and more safely manage large urban/industrial incidents.
On June 19 and 20 Professor Ruzena
Bajcsy led a two day workshop in Denmark looking at the future relationships
between machines and humans. This workshop was sponsored by CITRIS and
the University of Copenhagen. Various topics were tackled,
including robot controlled cars, face recognition, virtual communications,
unmanned airplanes and robotics in the home, just to name a few.
Faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz,
have organized a renewable energy program that will bring together U.S.
and Danish students for four weeks this summer in Lolland, Denmark.
Eric Brewer, a professor of computer
science at UC Berkeley, has spent the last five years seeking ways to
use WiFi to improve life in rural communities in the developing world. He shared his views and experiences in a keynote to a group of fellow
academics and engineers at recent workshop
