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A new day is DAWNing for communications in rapidly changing environments like battlefields and emergency situations.
On September 8 CITRIS held a Town Hall meeting to discuss strategies for the re-invigoration and rebuilding of the infrastructures devastated by hurricane Katrina. To this effect a new web site has been launched to coordinate the CITRIS Investigations of Hurricane Katrina.
Watch Video of Town Hall Meeting
The
College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley,
recently announced the launch of the Center for Entrepreneurship and
Technology (CET), a new academic program and industry partnership that
will educate the next generation of technical leaders on
entrepreneurship in a changing, global economy. Read More >>
Floyd Kvamme, co-Chairman of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), spoke at the ASME Nano: Conference 2005, which was held at the Berkeley College of Engineering in Sibley Auditorium on Sept 14-16. The conference focused on state-of-the art Devices and Systems, Nanoscale Phenomena, and Nanomanufacturing. Read more >>
"Connections III"
a meeting on Health Information and Communication Technology (HICT)
took place on August 11 in Berkeley. This was the third in a series of
workshops sponsored jointly by research groups in Denmark (the Alexandra Institute, Aarhus), Finland (Tampere University of Technology, Tampere), and the USA (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Center for Health Care Research, Berkeley) to develop innovative new technologies.
Dear Members and Friends of CITRIS,
At
first glance, the two projects featured in this month's newsletter
couldn't seem more different. The …
A CITRIS-sponsored project is making a useful-but-costly tool for
predicting how the ground will respond during an earthquake smaller,
cheaper, and easier to use.
To better understand and map the Pacific Ocean, CITRIS-affiliated
researcher Dr. Daniel P. Costa and his team have enlisted the help of
some very unusual research assistants. Together they're providing the
world with an unprecedented map of the mysterious deep.
Dear Members and Friends of CITRIS,
Making
sure California has sufficient power and protecting its water supply
are among two of the greatest challenges …
A multidisciplinary group of CITRIS-affiliated researchers are
developing a system that will revolutionize how Californians consume
electricity.
Two CITRIS-affiliated researchers are creating laboratories out in
nature to study how California's water quality can be restored.
Dear Members and Friends of CITRIS,
Two
very different CITRIS projects and a major research review highlight
this month’s newsletter. The first …
A new CITRIS-sponsored study reveals that making rich digital resources available to college educators is only half the battle.
New designs for CITRIS’s future headquarters make it more efficient,
affordable, and flexible–and the new nanofabrication facilities aren’t
too shabby, either.
Dear Members and Friends of CITRIS,
Professor
Ruzena Bajcsy, the Founding Director of CITRIS, stepped down on
November 1, 2004, from her position to …
A CITRIS-affiliated program called ICT4B is developing new technologies
to meet the unique needs of the world's poorest people. Never has the
need seemed greater.
A new manufacturing process developed by a CITRIS-affiliated researcher
is making an old but revolutionary technology affordable just in the
nick of time.
Dear Members and Friends of CITRIS,
Transportation
ranks as one of the top challenges we face in the coming decades.
Moreover there is a growing elderly …
CITRIS researcher champions hydrogen as an alternative to oil in California
Interview with Professor Linda Novick, Research Specialist in the
Innovative Mobility Research group at the California Center for
Innovative Transportation (CCIT)
