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House Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee of Texas Visited Citris Headquarters on March 17 to discuss CITRIS’s vision for technology as means to aid society. More
A recent landmark agreement increases the collaboration between the University of California System, including CITRIS, and leading Indian scientific organizations and universities, to a far deeper level in areas of science, technology, research and education. More
The University of California, Berkeley; UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science; UC Santa Barbara; and Stanford University are
teaming up to launch the Western Institute of Nanoelectronics, one of the world’s largest joint research
programs focusing on the pioneering technology called "spintronics." More
CITRIS is sponsoring a $20K "white paper" competition that is open to teams of undergraduate and graduate students from all 4 CITRIS campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Santa Cruz, and Merced). Papers are due May 1, 2006. More
The UC Merced School of Engineering recently hosted two researchers from the IBM Almaden Research Center: Associate Lab Director Robin Williams and Senior Manager of Service Systems Research Paul Maglio, who presented examples of research and ideas on future directions from Almaden and discussed CITRIS and other collaboration possibilities.
UC Berkeley professor Robert Bea discusses the progress of levee rebuildng in New Orleans in an online interview with the Earth & Sky radio series.
The latest edition of the CITRIS Newsletter features an article on the pioneering new research and new collaborations UC Merced and another article on the emergence of services, a new field of education and research being developed with help from CITRIS.
Dear Members and Friends of CITRIS,
New beginnings are always cause for excitement, and the two covered in the first newsletter of 2006 are no …
It's new. It's hot. It's UC Merced. Find out why faculty, students, and
industry partners are flocking to the University of California's latest
member.
Entire new fields of research and education don't open up every day,
which is why some are comparing the emergence of services to the birth
of computer science half a century ago. Get the full scoop on what
CITRIS is doing to facilitate this exciting new beginning.
The University of California, Santa Cruz, and Los Alamos National Laboratory have agreed to establish a new collaborative institute, the Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management (ISSDM), for research and education in the area of scientific data management.
CITRIS is
pleased to announce that IBM is supporting a new curriculum initiative
in Services: Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) designed to
prepare graduate students for careers in the emerging multidisciplinary field of services sciences, engineering, and management.
We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new scientists to the CITRIS leadership. As of January 1, Prof. Alex Pang is the new Chief Scientist for the UC Santa Cruz campus, and Prof. Paul Wright is the Chief Scientist for the UC Berkeley campus.
Three technology companies are providing researchers at the University of California, Berkeley with $7.5 million to help entrepreneurs make their innovations available to as wide an audience as possible.
Photos from the CITRIS Holiday Gala are now online. At this gathering students, faculty, staff, and other members of the CITRIS and Engineering communities enjoyed food and live music.
The December issue of the CITRIS Newletter is now online! This issue looks at the future of wireless sensor networks as well as a new center dedicated to making our cyber-infrastructure more secure and trustworthy.
The end of the year is often a time to reflect and look back, but
here at CITRIS our minds are on the future. What will the next big
technological …
From providing border surveillance to helping the elderly, how "smart dust" is going to revolutionize the future.
CITRIS director Shankar Sastry discusses how the newly inaugurated Team
for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) is making
society's computer infrastructure safer and more reliable.
Innovative research on yeast with vastly improved capacity for isoprenoid production was the top winner in the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology’s 2005 Technology Breakthrough Competition. The runner-up prize went to scientists creating technology to make electronic noses affordable for commercial use.
A feature article in the November 9 issue of the East Bay Express explores Professor Goldberg’s integration of art and engineering.
Dear Members and Friends of CITRIS,
As
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation continued to play out
in Louisiana, Mississippi and indeed all …
CITRIS’s Katrina Recovery Task Force (KRTF) is already playing an
important role in the efforts to rebuild areas devastated by the
hurricane.
A unique collaboration between Berkeley students led by a CITRIS
researcher and the Chicago Fire Department is bringing critical
information to firefighters when they most need it.
