Telemicroscopy for Disease Diagnosis (CellScope)
…reach of high-quality care into the most remote areas. The project was Seed Funded by CITRIS. Researchers, who began international field testing in the DR Congo during summer 2008,…
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Capture of Nanomagnetic ‘Fingerprints’ a Boost for Next-Generation Information Storage Media
…fields to the wires and measured the responses from the nanodisks. By starting each cycle at full saturation — that is, using a field strong enough to align all the…
Computing in a Post-Silicon World
…housing research equipment to enabling researchers to manufacture and try out new materials and approaches. For more information: International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors Berkeley Quantum Information & Computation Center Giant…
Open Source Robotics, Feb 1
…of 30 years ago, the personal robotics industry will take off and become an economic engine. But robotics is a complex, multidisciplinary field, and fielding successful applications requires expertise ranging…
Synthetic Biology: Engineering Living Cells with New Capabilities, Feb 16
…these technologies and discoveries, a new field called synthetic biology has emerged. Synthetic biology applies engineering principles to biology so that we can test our current understanding of cell design…
Frugal Science and Global Health, May 1
…into serious consideration. As physicists, we like to make stuff. We use these skills (and field work) to design solutions for extremely resource constrained settings, specially in the field of…
Intermittency-Friendly Community Scale Renewable Energy Microgrids, May 7
…instrument innovation leading to chemical characterization at the nanometer scale within the electron microscope), and the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics (for fundamental research in the development of near-field optical imaging)….
Why Some Earthquakes are More Destructive than Others
…field. The researchers used records of repeating earthquakes along the San Andreas fault that Nadeau developed and maintained. The data were from Parkfield, Calif., an area which has experienced a…
The CITRIS Designated Emphasis Builds Bridges to Many Disciplines
…about to enter the third year of his PhD program at Berkeley. His field, neuroscience, is undergoing a revolution of sorts. Traditionally, it has emphasized the observable, anatomical, biological, and…
The Collaborative Assessment and Feedback Engine (CAFE) (2009-2018)*
Ken Goldberg and Brandie Nonnecke and Sanjay Krishnan and Camille Crittenden The CAFE platform was awarded the 2017-2018 Chancellor’s Award for Research in the Public Interest, which recognizes research that…
Tickets now on sale for Women in Tech Symposium: Reimagining Cybersecurity for All
…Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute drive interdisciplinary innovation for social good with faculty researchers and students from four University of California campuses…
CIDER drone pilot training helps UC Santa Cruz students reach new heights
…order to better understand which areas of habitat the species prefers and potentially determine the best ways to protect them. This field research was part of the first-ever drone Pilot…
Foundry startup supports a tech-savvy firefighting workforce
…The Wildland Academy gives FIRE Foundry recruits access to critical experiential learning opportunities, from performing controlled burns to field-testing innovative technologies developed by Berkeley engineers and partner organizations. One of…
On the cutting edge of robotic surgery: Bahareh Nejad serves as physician, international instructor
…Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS). “It’s the two sides coming together — the engineering, software and AI side bridging the gap with the clinical…
Answering the call: Sri Kurniawan designs assistive tech to improve quality of life
…with a bunch of people, because getting different perspectives is always helpful for research and technology design. “It’s a quality that I will implement throughout the rest of my research.”…
February ’07 Newsletter
…Professor Shankar Sastry Director Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society Berkeley selected to lead BP Energy Research Consortium UC Berkeley has been selected by BP to…
Rosen helps develop robotic surgery systems for medical research laboratories
…for medical research laboratories across the US. Following the final tests, five of the robotic systems will be delivered to medical robotics researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, UC…
Community-Based Research Across Disciplines, Feb 2
…Participatory action research (PAR); Participatory planning; Service learning courses, etc. Whatever terms we all use, each involves collaborations with communities outside academia for research and/or teaching. This event is sponsored…
Q&A with Director Spanos
…years ago and has since served as Chair of EECS, Director of the Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory, Associate Dean for Research, and the founding Director and CEO of the Berkeley Educational…
PRP Workshop at 2017 CENIC
…Big data has arrived for a fast-growing field of biological research: cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). As a research tool for ‘structural biology’, researchers worldwide are turning to cryo-EM to illuminate the…
CITRIS Research Exchange – Gerald Friedland on Machine Learning
A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Gerald Friedland. TALK TITLE: “A Measurements-Based Approach to Machine Learning” SPEAKER: Gerald Friedland, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley…
Siemens gift supports University of California STEM outreach to underserved communities
…training The UC Santa Cruz CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) brings together students, researchers, academic institutions and aviation companies, with the goals of building a more diverse…
Is Silicon Valley pricing academics out of AI research?
Amidst the excitement of up-and-coming artificial intelligence (AI) models, there is growing concern among academics that the hefty price of working with the technology is compromising independent research. As tech…
Job Opportunity: CITRIS Program Analyst
…requiring talented, knowledgeable, and dynamic educators, researchers, management, and staff. The incumbent uses advanced concepts and methods to meet strategic and operational objectives of the Center for Information Technology Research…