3D Orchards: Virtual reality meets agriculture in the article below featuring CITRIS Researcher Dr. YangQuan Chen and the UC Merced MESA lab. Farmers are relying more and more […]
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Brains for buildings, packaged in a smart briefcase
UC Berkeley engineers, working with CITRIS Director and EECS Professor Costas Spanos, have developed a new Building-in-Briefcase (BiB) system that can easily monitor the efficiency & sustainability of buildings.
Apply for Smogathon 2017
Do you want to fight air pollution and win $100,000? Apply for Smogathon 2017 by August 15th! On October 3rd, BERC will be hosting a […]
What Does Your Smart Meter Know About You?
CITRIS Director Costas Spanos is among a team of UC Berkeley researchers investigating the implications – and potential misuse – of information gathered by smart […]
UCTV Launches New Portal to Sustainability for California
The University of California is sharing their efforts to maintain a Sustainable California, with a new media-rich web portal hosted by University of California Television […]
Robotic irrigation coming to CA vineyards
Ken Goldberg, director of the People and Robots initiative of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, explains robotic applications for crop irrigation. Researchers are developing a […]
BECC Conference 2017: Call for Abstracts Now Open
The BECC Conference 2017 Call for abstracts is open. Closes on April 1, 2017. The Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference (BECC) is the premier […]
Art Rosenfeld, California’s Godfather of Energy Efficiency, Dies at 90
Art Rosenfeld, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Distinguished Scientist Emeritus who is also known as California’s “godfather” of energy efficiency and who has […]
Robots and People Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture
A nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is helping University of California researchers refine collaborative robotic technology that could change […]
CITRIS announces recipients of the inaugural Athena Awards for Women in Technology
To recognize the accomplishments of technology leaders and organizations fostering interest in computer science for the next generation of women and girls, CITRIS and the […]
Nonnecke and Crittenden discuss IoT & Sustainability w/ World Smart City
In 2016, over half the world’s population live in cities. Each year these cities account for nearly 70% of greenhouse gas emissions, waste 250 to […]
WattTime partners with Energate to launch smart thermostat solution
Congratulations to WattTime, a CITRIS Foundry alumni company that is creating technology to make using clean energy as simple as tapping your smartphone. WattTime is an environmental nonprofit spinning […]
QuakeCAFE: A mobile wake-up call for Californians
BERKELEY – No one likes to be reminded that there’s a 99.7% chance that California will experience a major earthquake in the next 30 years. […]
Microsoft HoloLens academic research grants recipients
Meet the award recipients of the first Microsoft HoloLens academic research grants Chosen from more than 500 qualified applications, three faculty members from the UC Berkeley Robotics […]
DOE selects UC Berkeley to lead U.S.-China energy and water consortium
CITRIS Merced campus director Joshua Viers is participating as a campus principal investigator (PI) lead in the new CERC-WET consortium. CITRIS PI Jay Lund is also engaged […]
Researchers Gathering Data to Tackle California’s Water Crisis on Multiple Fronts
Reposted from Sierra Sun Times | by Joel Patenaude | September 25, 2015 California, long envied by the rest of the country for its climate, beauty […]
How to beat the climate crisis? Start with carrots
Learn more about CITRIS affiliated researchers John Zysman and Nina Kelsey’s work on climate policy in the Berkeley News article, “How to beat the climate […]
Going With the Flow of Data
Scientific data like that being produced by UC Merced researchers will ultimately provide a means to a more sustainable future. “Going with the Flow of […]
Students Recognized for Important MESA Lab Projects
Professor YangQuan Chen has many reasons to be proud of his Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab. Besides being extremely popular — so popular the lab […]
One Ph.D. Student’s Mission to Reduce Our Carbon Footprint
Reducing our carbon footprint: Transportation app inspires new “IT for Sustainability” course at UC Berkeley. By Cecile Basnage Climate change is “the defining challenge of our […]
CITRIS Supports Launch of DOE-Sponsored $100K Cleantech University Prize
UC Berkeley has been selected as one of eight national hosts for the Department of Energy (DOE) Cleantech University Prize competitions for aspiring collegiate cleantech […]
Siebel Energy Institute launches with major Berkeley presence
by Karen Rhodes | Reposted from Berkeley Engineering, 08/03/2015 The Siebel Energy Institute, a global university consortium focused on smart energy, marked its debut today […]
Evaluating California water management options
By Jenny Ta and Joshua Viers | Reposted from http://californiawaterblog.com It seems inevitable that increasing numbers of California farmers will see their claims to surface […]
Enduring Summer’s Deep Freeze
Summer’s Deep Freeze: New York Times reporter Kate Murphy discusses over-air-conditioned offices and apps like Comfy which let users control the temperature of their offices. […]