Operation Recovery
…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…
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Medical Devices on Networked Systems
…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…
Public Health Assisting Smart Technologies (PHAST)
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…
Virtual Stress Testing: Putting Virtual Skeletons under Pressure
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….
The Computational Science and Engineering Program
…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…
Robots Rush In: In Search-and-Rescue Operations Teamwork is Everything
…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…
CITRIS helps City of San Francisco Evaluate Community Safety Camera Program
…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…
Data You Can Admire: Kwan-Liu Ma Converts Huge Data Sets into Illuminating Visualizations
…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…
CITRIS Newsletter
…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….
IBM Researchers Visit UC Merced
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,…
Monitoring for Historical Sites
from the Florida Jewish News Work by CITRIS researcher Steven Glaser is helping to preserve Masada, a World Heritage Site in Israel. In mid-August, Glaser will set up seismic monitoring…
ARTHUR RICHARD NEWTON
…a constant winner of awards for his charismatic classroom style; as one of the pre-eminent researchers in the field of computer-aided design of integrated circuits (Kaufman award winner); as a founder of…
UC Students travel to Denmark for Renewable Energy Summer Program
…their application essays. Daniel O’Leary, a graduate student in computer engineering, said he looks forward to meeting European researchers in the field of renewable energies. He will also be looking…
Groundbreaking for California Telehealth Resource Center
…campus. The four-story, $36 million building is designed to enhance and complement UC Davis’ expertise in the field of telehealth, which is the use of high-speed telecommunications for medical services….
BCNM and U.S. State Department announce collaboration
…to ‘depolarize’ discussions by including all participants on a level playing field. To participate in this experiment, see where you stand with respect to others around the world, and join…
Eric Brewer wins ACM-Infosys Foundation Award for scalable Web technology
CITRIS researcher Eric Brewer, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, is the 2009 recipient of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences,…
New Media RoundTable: A Variation on the Powers of Ten, Futurefarmers
…1977, Charles and Ray Eames film to frame ten discussions with a diverse range of researchers. Upon a blanket, they will discuss the changing landscape of research in various fields…
Rebuilding Safe, Satisfactory, and Sustainable Houses After Earthquakes
…Research Council committee to develop a long-term research agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). Before graduate school, she spent five years in the engineering consulting industry, working…
i4Energy Seminar: Global Warming — The Current Status: The Science, the Scandal, the Prospects for a Treaty
…Floor Speaker/Performer: Richard Muller, Professor, Dept. of Physics, UC Berkeley Sponsor: CITRIS (Ctr for Info Technology Research in the Interest of Society) The schedule for the fall i4energy series is…
EPG/BERC Seminar: Wind Energy, California Water, Energy Efficiency
…Energy Laboratory; Kasandra Griffin, Policy Analyst, Spring 2010, California Public Utilities Commission; Mark Zimring, Senior Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Sponsors: Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley Energy and…
CITRIS roboticist recognized as top young innovator
Pieter Abbeel, a UC Berkeley professor and CITRIS researcher known for his novel work in the field of machine learning in robotics – including robots that can fold laundry –…
CITRIS Health Care Initiative Employs IT to Tame Costs and Boost Access
…constantly available. Data security will be key to the success of so many of the advances in this field. Dr. Han, our new Medical Director, is an Associate Professor in…
Nina Amenta: Looking for patterns and collaborations in the data
…Jeff Weeks; Mac and Window versions of Kali can still be found online. Amenta’s main research field is computational geometry, a branch of computer science that develops algorithms for geometric…
Solving the Brueghel Imbroglio: New tech to shed light on old paintings
…translated into Linux or modeled on a nanoscale. Her focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting may not be widely shared within the engineering field. And yet, Honig,…