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Please find the talk abstracts for CITRIS and IBM researchers for the Oct. 30 event.
Dr. Claire Tomlin, recipient of a 2006 MacArthur Foundation
"Genius" Fellowship, speaks about the experience of
receiving $500,000 "no strings attached" to pursue creative ideas in
engineering.
George Blumenthal, who has served as Acting Chancellor of UC Santa Cruz for the
past 14 months, has been named Chancellor by the UC Board of Regents.
Civil Engineering Professors Abolhassan Astaneh and Robert Bea are featured in a California Magazine article on the repair of the collapsed MacArthur Maze freeway connector.
In a recent NY Times article, Shankar Sastry, the former CITRIS Director, discusses how engineering curricula will change in response to societal needs.
Five UC Berkeley researchers have been awarded a $1.4 million grant to improve homeland security through detection of nuclear materials.
UC Davis will host GoingGreen 2007 on September 10-12, and the Clean Energy Showcase on October 11.
Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the
Web encyclopedia's reliability varies wildly. Now Luca de Alfaro
aims to provide users with software that flags questionable
lines in Wikipedia entries.
Transforming an information glut into an information goldmine is the aim of
knowledge science at UCSC. by Gordy Slack
Nailing Down the Who, What, When, Where, and Who Else: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. by Gordy Slack
