Going With the Flow of Data
…initiative. The new UC Water Security and Sustainability Research initiative, known as UC Water, is led by UC Merced professors Roger Bales and Joshua Viers and involves researchers from other…
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A Wake-up Call for California: Innovations in Earthquake Preparedness
…1:30 pm: QuakeCAFE.org Results and Insights 1:30- 3:00 pm: Panel: Innovations in Earthquake Early Warning, Preparedness, and Response – Amina Assefa, Manager, Office of Emergency Management, UC Berkeley – Dan…
Enhancing Human Capability with Intelligent Machine Teammates
…will view results from work investigating effective ways to blend the unique decision-making strengths of humans and machines. We will discuss the development of computational models that enable machines to…
Deep Robotic Learning
…decision making, where supervision is difficult to obtain. In this talk, I will discuss experimental results that hint at the potential of deep learning to transform robotic decision making and…
Automatic discovery and localization of tough bugs in large SoCs using formal-enhanced quick error detection
…discuss two recent results which use formal methods to greatly enhance the power of QED. First, Symbolic QED is a method which uses bounded model checking to exhaustively search for…
Ken Goldberg – The New Wave in Robot Grasping
…50 years of research, robots remain remarkably clumsy, limiting their applications in home decluttering, warehouse order fulfillment, and robot-assisted surgery. The first wave of grasping research, still dominant, uses analytic…
Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with Applications to Control and Differential Games
…via variational methods originating in compressive sensing with remarkable results. We can evaluate the solution in 10^(-4) to 10^(-8) seconds per evaluation on a laptop. The method is embarrassingly parallel…
Innovate to Grow 2017
…who collaborate with partner organizations and industries to define engineering problems, discover solutions and demonstrate their results. Mobile App Challenge The Mobile App Challenge encourages students to develop innovative mobile…
Big Ideas Competition 2017 IT for Society Category Winners Announced
…2016 interprofessional entrepreneurship course at UCSF, Serify allows dating app users to conveniently verify and share their negative HIV/STD test results. 2nd Place: Reach 1600 Foundation Team Members: Gloria Chen,…
CITRIS Foundry Welcomes Four New Pioneering Startups for Spring 2017
…11% acceptance rate for this impressive cohort. Several of the team members have roots in research groups at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. We’re excited to share this snapshot…
A Deeper Look at Deep Decarbonization Pathways for the U.S. Economy with Karl Hausker
…free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12:00 pm Pacific…
Job Opportunity: CITRIS Director of Development
…most iconic teaching and research institutions. Since 1868, Berkeley has fueled a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic and social value in California, the United States and the world. Berkeley’s…
TechCrunch showcases Berkeley robotics
…AI from industry and academia, including CITRIS People and Robots Initiative (CPAR) researchers. Following a welcome from UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research Randy Katz, CPAR director Ken Goldberg introduced Dex-Net…
Making computer animation more agile, acrobatic — and realistic
Graduate students working with CITRIS researchers Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine have made major advances in realistic computer animation, using deep reinforcement learning to create a virtual stuntman that mimics…
Why AI won’t overtake the world, but is worth watching
…nature of artificial intelligence. These are researchers and entrepreneurs with decades of experience working in the AI and robotics fields. They help us understand why artificial intelligence won’t take over…
Putting AI to Work
…trends for target populations, and policy questions for a new era of automated and adaptive workplaces. Preliminary results from a CITRIS white paper will be presented, sharing case study examples…
SafelyYou: Using AI to detect and prevent falls
…with the video monitoring system, according to results published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research last year. “Since then, with the 11 communities involved in our research study,” says…
CITRIS Foundry innovation hub expands under new leadership
…is key to the CITRIS mission is helping translate science, research, and technology into meaningful impact in society. A lot of that meaningful impact results from the process of innovation,…
Using Virtual Reality for physical rehabilitation
…Institute. # # # 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…
Cal Energy Corps Summer Interns Reflect on Experience
…in summer internships, to perform research and work focusing on sustainable development and climate solutions. For this month’s spotlight, let’s take a look at some of the work done over…
Making Together: Crossing Borders and Connecting Communities
…worth it. To see the collaboration at the end, the results, the feedback was very gratifying,” says Myers. The Tec de Monterrey students also brought a “tactile design pen project”…
Social-Emotional Skills in the Digital Age
The OECD published the latest PISA results in December 2019 on students’ academic performance and well-being. Only two-thirds of students were satisfied with their lives, a share that shrank by…
Innovate to Grow at UC Merced
…to Innovate to Grow. Come see the amazing results of student teams from our signature programs: (1) Capstone Innovation Design Clinic (2) Engineering Service Learning and (3) Mobile App Challenge….
Core Seed Funding FAQ
…of the CITRIS campuses: UC Berkeley, UC Davis (including the UC Davis Health system), UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz. Researchers with “Exceptional PI” status at these campuses may also…