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Software Infrastructure for Sensor Nets and Real-Time Systems
Autonomous and Interactive Systems at UC Merced has broad applications and focuses on the extremely important capability that intelligent systems have to achieve in order to be inserted in society: the ability to autonomously act with, and/or in cooperation with, people. The projects focus on systems that can be used to train and assist people in preparation for or during complex and difficult situations.
Berkeley Lab Researchers, Lenny Oliker, John Shalf, and Michael Wehner, propose a new breed of supercomputers, perhaps the most powerful special-purpose computer yet, for improving global climate predictions.
“We think scientific computing is ripe for a change. Instead of getting a big computer and saying, ‘What can we do? we want to do what particle physicists do and say, ‘We want to do this kind of science—what kind of machine do we need to do it?' ” says Michael Wehner, a climatologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Healthcare is a $2 Trillion/year industry which amounts to 16% of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. These numbers are expected to rapidly rise as the aging baby boomers will continue to increase the elderly age group population (people above 60 years of age) from the current 10% level to the 25% level in 2030. While the advances in hardware and software technologies for healthcare services have been remarkable, networking remains as the main hurdle in delivering much needed modern healthcare services in a timely and cost-effective manner.
The burden of infectious diseases is very high in developing
countries. World-wide, nearly 1 million
die annually from malaria, 2.9 million from enteric (intestinal) infections,
4.3 million from respiratory infections, and 5 million from AIDS and
tuberculosis. Unfortunately, most
methods for diagnosing these diseases are invasive, labor intensive, and
sometimes inadequate. Furthermore, they
require laboratory equipment and infrastructure that are not typically found in
remote/resource-limited areas. Thus,
Because electricity cannot be
practically or economically stored in large quantities, the electricity
generation and distribution system must match supply and demand on a
minute-by-minute basis. Delivery of electricity for residential use has
traditionally been done by matching the supply to the demand, with little or no
control over the demand. This causes severe distortions in the system operation
and economics when the demand hits unusually high peak values. When these peaks
Large scale incidents, whether natural such as the Katrina disaster, tsunamis, and earthquakes, or human-caused such as the WTC incident, are becoming more frequent and more problematic. We have seen that people have been ill prepared to efficiently and effectively handle such incidents, largely due to lack of adequate information and communication at the incident scene. This project focuses on increasing safety and effectiveness at urban incidents by improving information and communication quality and quant
In the spring of 2002, the Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley and UC Berkeley initiated a collaboration with the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor and the University of California at Berkeley to deploy wireless sensor networks on Great Duck Island, Maine. These networks monitor the microclimates in and around nesting burrows used by the Leach's Storm Petrel. Our goal is to develop a habitat monitoring kit that enables researchers worldwide to engage in the non-intrusive and non-disruptive monitoring of sensitive wildlife and habitats.
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