CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
…awareness in our design practices and artifacts. I will frame the considerate system stance of social feedback to a user and describe results from a variety of research projects including…
A rapidly growing body of research examines whether human conflict can be affected by climatic changes. Drawing from archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, and psychology, we assemble and…
…need to be distributed throughout a city. He is also developing the data assimilation models that they will apply to the sensor results in order to calculate how much CO2…
…March 20, 2014 was held to discuss the results of the data and lessons learned: California Report Card: Learning from a New Platform for Civic Engagement. Watch the video playlist…
The Challenge: Provide powerful remote sensing in a small, light, wearable form The Innovation: A multi-function sensor with wireless connectivity and multi-day data storage capacity The Results: Fully functional, and…
…is designed to leverage the collective power of the Internet to impact local, physical surroundings, and to answer those questions that don’t tend to show up in Google search results….
…and income. Then they can refine and personalize the estimate with answers to a few basic questions about the way they live and consume. They can compare their results to…
Results from UC Merced Energy Planning have wildly exceeded expectations. Young and growing, the new campus is a living laboratory of sustainability, where every major building is LEED-certified. Its early…
…will apply to the sensor results in order to calculate how much CO2 is being emitted, how much is being absorbed, and where those emissions and absorptions are occurring. “The…
…by becoming better, more specific, more knowledgeable” says Tagkopoulos. “It is a tool that learns and adapts to new information.” The researchers’ main goals are to decrease mortality and improve…
…rely on micro-simulation programs that crunch every single piece of data, the Berkeley team addresses the problem at a larger resolution and “faster results that are much easier to optimize,”…
…Forward is to press for more access to data so that people can make sure their governments are being held accountable for results. The Open Data topic will get a…
…fun learning experience at an affordable price. I am very impressed with the team’s research background at UC Berkeley and their commitment to creating great consumer robots.” As Ph.D. students…
by Gordy Slack Thousands of US veterans have suffered traumatic brain injuries from roadside bombs and mortar explosions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of these injuries are bloody—the results of…
…harness mechanical energy created by ocean waves to produce and store electricity. The group will now complete the project, publish their results this summer, and exhibit their prototype at the…
…Card, developed by a team of faculty and students from the Center for the Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, or CITRIS, Data and Democracy Initiative in partnership…
…### The Center for 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…
by Gavin Newsom and Ken Goldberg Published 5:59 pm, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, www.sfgate.com Although the results of last week’s primary election are still being certified, we already know that…
Thousands of US veterans have suffered traumatic brain injuries from roadside bombs and mortar explosions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of these injuries are bloody—the results of shrapnel or bullets…
…and applied results. The High-Impact Research strategies are not for everyone, but I claim that researchers are more likely to achieve high impact, if they follow these strategies: – Choose…
…traffic data is forwarded to local coordinator nodes. Using the classical LWR traffic flow model, we show that the traffic reconstruction problem results in a set of MILPs, which can…
…scripts that utilize canvas fingerprinting, along with other known forms of browser fingerprinting as demonstrated by EFF’s Panopticlick Project. The talk will also feature the results of our first automated…
…uncertainty levels online, a learning method in the belief space is developed. A comparative study between SSA and SEA is conducted. The simulation results confirm that SEA can capture the…
…Robots faculty or grads will recap recent results and describe new or intended projects to encourage cross-fertilization and collaboration. Join our mailing list to receive event announcements. Webcast: http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/cpar …
