Driverless Cars: From Foresight to Concept, Sep 25
The talk describes how General Motors thinks about the longer term future and how it then applies that thinking to set research priorities and to develop future product concepts. Recent…
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TRUST Security Seminar, Oct 24
…fix all bugs. This raises a serious security question: which bugs are exploitable, and thus should be fixed first? David Brumley’s research team’s vision is to automatically check the world’s…
Ted Selker, “Activities in Considerate Systems” at UC Santa Cruz, Nov 13
…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…
Quantifying the Influence of Climate Change on Human Conflict, Nov 18
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…
Sensing CO2 Domes for Adaptive Management of Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions
…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…
California Report Card
…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…
Berkeley Tricorder
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…
CitySandbox
…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….
CoolClimate Carbon-Footprint Calculator
…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…
UC Merced Energy Planning
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…
Measuring Human Contributions to Urban CO2
…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…
Sepsis Watch
…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…
Connected Corridors
…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,”…
Upcoming Open Data Conference at UC Berkeley Attracting World Wide Audience
…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…
CITRIS Foundry Excels at Advancing Technology from Idea to Product
…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…
Vote Your Mind
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…
Winners Announced for Davis Student Competition
…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…
Students: It’s time to fill out a report card and put California to the test
…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…
3rd Annual CITRIS at UC Merced Mobile App Challenge Winners
…### 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…
“Let’s amplify California’s collective intelligence”: op-ed by Ken Goldberg and Gavin Newsom
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…
Vote Your Mind
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…
Blending Science Engineering and Design, Sep 19
…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…
Wireless Sensor Networks for Flash Flood and Traffic Monitoring in Urban Environments, Sep 24
…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…
TRUST Security Seminar, Sep 11
…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…