CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
…Viers has been serving in a research capacity at UC Davis for 10 years since receiving his Ph.D. in Ecology there, most recently as Associate Research Scientist in the Department…
…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…
…funding since its inception in 2007. Cisco engineers provide NMO Lab Interns with simulations of actual complex networking and operational problems faced at Cisco, which the students then research and…
CITRIS researcher Jacob Rosen has been featured in the UCSC magazine Science Notes 2012. The article discusses how he and his colleagues are creating new methodologies in the field of…
(image taken from http://hint.fm/projects/wind/) The emerging field of “data visualization” brings together quantitative information with technology and graphic design to tell stories and convey ideas. As data about our environment,…
…power of academic research on pressing real-world problems. At the time of this interview, Viers was just preparing to vacate his Davis office, where he was knee-deep in 20 years-worth…
…conditioning, and nearly passing out after overheating from hours of uninterrupted work in the sun. He recounted quickly returning to the field after cooling down, and said, “I didn’t ask…
…between the innovative expertise of the former with the needs assessments and field knowledge of the latter. Participants not only had the opportunity to explore global health challenges but got…
…projects among the four CITRIS campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz). He will facilitate research, education, and development of health care technology solutions related to chronic disease management, patient…
…are finding a useful niche in academic research in the service of environmental science, resource management, and precision agriculture. Researchers at UC Merced’s new Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA)…
Paul P. Maglio is a Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Merced, and a research staff member at IBM Research, Almaden. He holds a bachelor’s degree in…
…combine technical research that develops media possibilities with innovations in the creation and interpretation of media projects and forms. Instead, today, we generally separate these activities. Technology research organizations generally…
…“We’ve got to rely on innovativeness and technology to make the medical field more efficient, to see patients in a more targeted manner,” Han said. With the help of engineers…
…www.msri.org), in Berkeley, California, is one of the world’s preeminent centers for research in the mathematical sciences and has been advancing mathematical research through workshops and conferences since its founding…
…Bales, with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, and Joshua Viers, director of the campus’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, will take part in panel discussions during…
As director of informatics research at the UC Davis Health System, Nick Anderson does research into the effective uses of biomedical data, information and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving…
…in recent years than in the field of information technology that itself spans a huge breath of underlying sub-disciplines, such as flight computing, reliable software engineering, autonomous systems, robotic vision,……
…At this event, city officials and industry leaders will present the challenges of planning for and encouraging urban mobility, and the teams will discuss their field research and present designs…
Two IBM executives recently visited CITRIS to review ongoing projects with IBM and campus researchers. James Spohrer, worldwide Director for IBM’s University Programs and Director of IBM’s new Cognitive Systems…
…discuss their field research and present designs that respond to urban mobility concerns. Core topics include pedestrian safety, urban beauty, and public transit optimization. The teams’ projects showcase how sensor…
…discriminates between essential tasks and those that could be postponed or cancelled without causing harm. For now, though, the SEAD plugs simply allow the researchers to collect data on the…
…reduce energy consumed by the growing number of digital devices, we envision a paradigm we call “Attojoule-Per-Bit,” says Ramamoorthy Ramesh, professor and a pioneer in the field of ferroelectric memory…
…Dobalian, Jeremy Wan, Kyle Patel, Christine Puthoff As a field, environmental science has not yet had the impact it needs to have on the general public, mostly due to limited…
…better health care solutions. This presentation introduces new approaches based on time-encoded single-pixel cameras, enabling a number of microscopy methods such as ultrafast Nomarski microscopy and time-encoded full-field high-resolution imaging….
