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UC Berkeley’s Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Claude Steele visited the Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory and CITRIS Invention Lab today, December 19th, 2014. NanoLab […]
Multi-disciplinary study examines how individuals make decisions about electric power use in an effort to match demand and supply in campus micro-grids by Gordy Slack […]
Ferroelectric material could help the arc of Moore’s Law reach new heights and radically reduce energy consumed by digital devices by Gordy Slack For the […]
Dear Friends of CITRIS: CITRIS is a high-performance, high-energy organization, and we are pleased to feature two projects demonstrating this theme. The first confirms a […]
This semester, students in the UC Berkeley Interactive Device Design class (CS294-84/ME290U) spent 14 weeks designing, prototyping, and fabricating novel wireless smart products in the CITRIS Invention Lab. […]
Direct Observation of Negative Capacitance in Ferroelectric Material Reported by CITRIS Engineers and Materials Scientists at UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA (December 15, 2014) – An article […]
CITRIS is pleased to announce that three innovative proposals have been selected to receive joint seed funding grants from Tecnológico de Monterrey and CITRIS. The winning proposals represent the […]
This past month marked several milestones at the at the CITRIS Foundry. We co-hosted Cal Hacks, received international visitors, held our CITRIS retreat at UC Merced, hosted the final week of […]
CITRIS is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul R. Gray has joined the CITRIS Advisory Board. As a faculty member at UC Berkeley for more […]
The Remote Agricultural UAV Sensing project has won the 2014 CITRIS Sustainability Award at UC Davis. Led by Aerospace Engineering undergraduate students Robert Arlen, Guillermo […]
CITRIS is delighted to welcome Dr. James Spohrer to our Advisory Board. Spohrer is the worldwide Director for IBM’s University Programs and Director of IBM’s […]
During the Fall 2014, a team of 17 graduate students and two professors worked with the city of San Leandro to develop digital tools to […]
Two IBM executives recently visited CITRIS to review ongoing projects with IBM and campus researchers. James Spohrer, worldwide Director for IBM’s University Programs and Director […]
Join us for an evening of engaging discussion from a diversity of Bay Area’s community leaders, thinkers, and artists. This event will be free and […]
Video of the September 15, 2014, reconnaissance briefing of preliminary observations from the South Napa Earthquake of August 24, 2014 is now online. The event […]
CalHacks debuted on October 3, 2014, as the largest collegiate hackathon in the nation. The first event of its kind in the Bay Area, more […]
A digital tool helps coordinate unused parcels of urban public land to alleviate the need for expensive infrastructure projects, revive depressed and blighted neighborhoods, and […]
Text Spotting aims to understand how a blind person can access information about the environment using mobile vision “It is easy—and dangerous—for the blind to […]
The work of CITRIS researchers on all four of our campuses reflects a similar commitment to improving access to public resources for everyone. Dear Friends […]
Berkeley, CA (September 23, 2014) — On National Voter Registration Day, a new version of the California Report Card (http://californiareportcard.org/ ) is being launched to […]
What’s Your Big Idea? The 2014-2015 Big Ideas at Berkeley contest is now open! Big Ideas at Berkeley is an annual innovation contest that provides […]
The Center for Data Innovation recently published an interview with CITRIS Deputy Director Camille Crittenden discussing new and ongoing research and our emerging work in […]
For more than a decade, high hopes have been pinned on telehealth technology to help the U.S. health care system serve the rising population of […]
The information technology revolution has come slowly to commercial buildings. Until now, piecemeal innovations in automating isolated functions like temperature, security, lighting, and air quality […]
