CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
…facility for research on decision-making in many fields. By creating an XlabM application, researchers will be able to conduct studies on real people on such things as what they buy…
…H1N1 virus. Developing the microfluidic system will require optimization of the affinity substrate and scheme for detecting antigens. This system will be field-deployable and the information can be incorporated into…
…cell phone cameras for remote diagnosis in resource-poor areas. It will be used in a field trial in Mexico. The Mobile Millennium project uses GPS-equipped smartphones to collect and distribute…
Contact: Jennifer McNulty (831) 459-2495; jmcnulty@ucsc.edu Dictionaries in the classroom may go the way of typewriters if researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have their way. Word…
…American Manufacturing Research Institution/Society of Manufacturing Engineers (NAMRI/SME) S.M. Wu Research Implementation Award. http://www.citris-uc.org/article/paul_wright_honored Radio interview with CITRIS researcher on the safety of the repaired MacArthur Maze On May 30,…
…Research in California’s Future,” followed by faculty presentations on energy and new markets for information technology and then demonstrations of exciting research at CITRIS. Details can be found at http://www.citris-uc.org/symposium-2006….
…breakthroughs be and how can they be used to improve society? This newsletter contains two forward-looking articles. “Sensor Networks and Beyond” surveys the innovative work CITRIS researchers are doing in…
CITRIS “shortens the pipeline” between world-class laboratory research in science and engineering and the creation of startups, companies, and whole industries. By engaging business, economics, law, and public policy at…
…Student Research Grants UC’s Berkeley Center for New Media announces the recipients of the 2010 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Research Grants. The grantees are a diverse group of graduate students whose…
…Institute, takes our energy research students and pairs them and their ideas with MBA students to develop real-world business plans for their technology. “It is a course,” says co-director Beverly…
CITRIS research in telemedicine will help improve medical access for those in remote regions throughout the state. by Gordy Slack ………………………………………….. California healthcare has never been better. However, this is…
…real-world work while learning computer science may draw a whole new kind of student into the field,” Wright says. By focusing on the content, and not just the programming itself,…
…studies, the new computers will give a broad range of users processing power heretofore reserved for weapons research. by Gordy Slack ………………………………………….. CITRIS researchers will soon have access to a…
…lines of research being pursued. To facilitate this process, Frenklach and colleagues launched a new initiative called Process Informatics Mode (PrIMe) in April. At the heart of the project is…
…team of researchers from CITRIS’s Katrina Recovery Task Force (KRTF) was racing ahead of construction crews, gathering vital data on what went wrong before it disappeared for good. “It was…
…needs of this field, and researchers, including John Canny at UC Berkeley, are working on diagnostic medical devices and their integration with network technologies. A device developed in the current…
CITRIS researchers are creating smart devices that promote awareness and understanding of personal activity spaces and how those spaces affect people’s health. The wearable devices will integrate data-logging global positioning…
One in three women will be affected by osteoporosis in their lifetimes, and detecting who is most at risk is part of UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering Professor Tony Keaveny’s research….
…name a few critical fields. The CSE Program at the University of California, Berkeley, will educate students to better perform computationally intensive and interdisciplinary scientific research across many fields of…
…and CITRIS researchers are working to further this field. The first serious forays into search-and-rescue robotics began shortly after the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan. More than 200,000 buildings collapsed…
…research experience in the technical, statistical, political, and legal areas,” says Deirdre Mulligan, an Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and a researcher on the project. In…
…helping other types of researchers visualize their work since the early days of computer graphics. What is new, and the subject of Ma’s Department of Energy-supported research, is working with…
…the pioneering new research and new collaborations UC Merced and another article on the emergence of services, a new field of education and research being developed with help from CITRIS….
The UC Merced School of Engineering recently hosted two researchers from the IBM Almaden Research Center: Associate Lab Director Robin Williams and Senior Manager of Service Systems Research Paul Maglio,…
