CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
…or a wheel. However, building computational systems that contain human feedback is not trivial. This research will focus on characterizing the results of specific human computation platforms and on developing…
…Berkeley, the international conference drew over 250 attendees from around the world. Researchers presented research results on systems issues in the area of embedded, networked sensors. Photos from poster session:…
…hands or be mismanaged. To address the issue, CITRIS’s Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology(TRUST) held a meeting on EMRs at UC Berkeley in April. Among the speakers were…
…by these successes, TRUST researchers are working on more defenses to combat the growing problem of online identity theft from developing a curriculum to ongoing research in collaboration with industry…
Enormous and costly communication towers like this one in Santa Fe, New Mexico are impractical in many situations. DAWN researchers seek to find more feasible solutions. (View larger image) (Photograph…
…experience has an overabundance of online libraries, image archives, media Web sites, video collections, and even personal research to choose from. But as a two-year study being conducted at UC…
Equipping soldiers on the battlefield, keeping store inventory up-to-date, and preventing counterfeit drugs from entering the supply chain: these may sound like three very different problems, but a technology dating…
…Astaneh-Asl and funded by the NSF as well, researchers will establish how bridge responds to blast and how much damage can occur due to certain size explosives. Once that is…
CITRIS researchers at UC Santa Cruz are studying resource allocation policies in a service environment. This work combines statistics, simulation, and optimization models with the objective of developing best-practice scheduling…
…Area is bad. But if the early results from the Mobile Millennium project are any indication, our ability to navigate through that traffic is about to get a lot better….
…question to CALVIN for her PhD thesis and revealed a whole new way of envisioning Hetch Hetchy’s future. “Null’s model results showed that water supply would not be much of…
… Click here to read about this year’s winners. See http://contest.berkeley.edu/contest_pages/1 for information on the competition and WCP-results-2006 for information on last year’s winners. ————————————— Deadline: All submissions…
Working on behalf of the city of San Francisco, UC Berkeley and CITRIS-affiliated researchers Jennifer King (School of Law), Professor Deirdre Mulligan (School of Information), and Professor Steven Raphael (School…
…addition to GPS coordinates, research can then be done to help solve the problem of decreasing fish populations. Most recorded fish data has to be done in real time without…
…at High System Penetration Alexandra Von Meier, Cal State Sonoma Link to video on YouTube SEPTEMBER 24 Results from the Building-to-Grid Testbed Experiments in Cory Hall David Culler, EECS, UC…
…and the soil throughout the watershed. This wireless system is part of the research being conducted by University of California researchers as part of the Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management…
…created for security researchers: a number of stories of vendors suing security researchers are available in the press. Some countries enacted laws banning the use and development of “hacking tools”….
…student programs. The evaluation shows promising results, as JSC finds more faults than other existing open source lightweight static analysis tools. The implications from this research show that JSC can…
…Wolfram, Associate Professor and Co-Director, Energy Institute at Haas, UC Berkeley Sponsor: CITRIS (Ctr for Info Technology Research in the Interest of Society) Part of the Fall 2010 i4Energy Seminar…
…should be entitled to considerable credence by courts and agencies. In particular, modeling results should be admissible evidence in court. There is considerable residual uncertainty about climate change impacts that…
…exercise in extreme approximation, according to Roger Bales, professor of engineering at UC Merced and director of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. Even as the mountains start releasing their melting…
…be difficult and costly. A new approach developed by UC Davis researchers Ramin Sadeghian and Saif Islam, could allow for more affordable, efficient, and portable gas-detecting devices that could revolutionize…
…be played. Anthropologists, health researchers, local residents, entrepreneurs, phone carriers, and politicians have all collaborated on DengueTorpedo. DengueTorpedo will be launched as a pilot project in two neighborhoods of São…
…on Sept. 14, 2011. Put another way, every $1 the California taxpayer invests in UC provides the foundational support that, supplemented by revenues from other sources, results in nearly $14…
