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Making Clean Energy Real: C2M

A new Haas School of Business program, called Cleantech to Market (C2M), is partnering with CITRIS to help select suitable projects and bring them to market.

The Power of Cory Hall: i4Energy’s Testbed for the Future

Ten months ago, i4Energy received a grant from the CEC to rig Berkeley's Cory Hall with sensors. The project installed a network of monitoring equipment to track the flow and use of electricity.

Teaching a Computer to Win Human Friends and Influence People

UCSC scientist Marilyn Walker has been looking hard at how humans express themselves, not just at what they say--but also at how they say it--in an effort to develop algorithms that will enable computer animations to employ those same techniques to express themselves more richly and compellingly.

Online Constellation of Opinions

Opinion Space, launched on the Department of State’s main website on March 15, is an analysis and visualization tool  that employs dimensionality reduction algorithms to depict thousands of opinions on several issues in one simple, two-dimensional animated illustration.

Smaller Keeps Getting Bigger: Marvell Lab Kicks into Gear

If small was beautiful, nano is stunning.

Greg Niemeyer: Connecting Technology and Art

Professor Greg Niemeyer creates games that can help engage people with serious issues, particularly that of climate change.

DASH to the Next Gen of Robots: Small, Cheap, and Feral

The Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod is a micro-robot made of paperboard and off-the-shelf electronics that could assist in recovery from natural disasters by crawling into spaces too dangerous for rescue workers to enter.