CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
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 …
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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,…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
