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Most Popular Items: Technology for Emerging Economies
- October 17, 2008: 9:00am - October 18, 2008: 3:00pm
- More Information: TIER Website
- Location: 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
This two-day workshop will feature talks and demonstrations by scientists working with technology to in developing regions.
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All Research Exchange talks take place at noon on Wednesdays in 290 Hearst
Memorial Mining Building on the UC Berkeley campus, As always, these talks are free, open to the public and broadcast live on-line.
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The fall semester schedule for the popular Research Exchange series is now on-line.
 The next newsletter is now online, featuring stories on thermoelectric power generation and the CITRIS conference in Copenhagen, which focused on the relationships among public policy, the role of business, and technological means that could be used to fight global warming.
 Six projects were awarded a total of $30K at this year's CITRIS Big Ideas contest, with the top two prizes going to healthcare-related issues.
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- January 24, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Please join us for a talk by Arun Majumdar, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and at UC Berkeley, entitled "Matchmaking Global Energy Needs and Local Energy Technology"
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- October 1, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley Campus
Eric Brewer [P rofessor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences UC Berkeley]
Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. As always, these talks are free, open to the public and broadcast live online at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast, and questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at RE-Fall2008. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
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- February 21, 2008: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
The 2008 CITRIS poster and demonstration session will be in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley, from 2-5pm.
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- May 22, 2008: 12:00pm - 4:30pm
- Location: Microsoft Mountain View Campus, Building 1
We are pleased to invite you to the fourth Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
Road Show on Thursday, May 22, at the company’s Mountain View campus to
personally experience some of the recent innovations coming out of Microsoft’s
research labs.
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 Ming Wu has been appointed the new Chief Scientist for
CITRIS at Berkeley. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences at Berkeley, and Co-Director of Berkeley Sensors and
Actuators Center (BSAC).
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- April 25, 2008: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
 The top-12 finalists will present a poster session for this year's Big Idea competition, followed by the award ceremony for the judged winners.
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- April 27, 2008: 7:19am - 7:19am
- Location: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
The 2008 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum will feature panels on nano electronics,
solar technology, health care, business and public policy, as well as
distinguished speakers.
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 The June 2008 newsletter is now online, with two stories on key energy projects in both engine development and predicting solar availability for utilities.
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- April 23, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
S. Keshav, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Internet kiosks can provide services such as birth and marriage
certificates, land records, and medical and agricultural consulting to
the poorest sections of society.
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- April 11, 2008: 5:00pm - 5:00pm
CITRIS is proud to announce the third annual CITRIS White
Paper competition, which will give away $25K in cash prizes for the best ideas
that demonstrate the ability of IT to address a major societal challenge.
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- February 27, 2009: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: CITRIS Headquarters Building, UC Berkeley
 On Feb. 27, 2009, CITRIS will mark the official opening of its new headquarters, Sutardja-Dai Hall, with a day of talks and celebration.
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- December 5, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
 Please join us for this talk on "Safe Drinking Water for Developing Countries" by Ashok Gadgil, Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor in the Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley.
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CITRIS Center and Strategic Partner Development
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 Ethan Miller's group has come up with a new approach, called Pergamum, which uses hard
disk drives to provide energy-efficient, cost-effective storage.
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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have the potential to benefit society in a myriad of ways, such as accelerating scientific research, increasing productivity, and enhancing security. WSNs also pose many fascinating scientific challenges, ranging from device physics to encoding techniques to distributed algorithms. There is a large, diverse, and rapidly increasing network literature in this area. Unfortunately, much of this work has been done in isolation; all too often individual components are crafted and evaluated without an overall vision or a context for deployment.
Research by CITRIS researchers and corporate partners is helping bring
high tech to the developing world at a price that's right.
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,
One of the most basic yet powerful tools in all of medicine
is the simple microscope. It is the
first tool of evaluation for skin diseases, ear aches, and sore throats, as
well as being central to diagnosis of blood diseases. However, only the discerning eye of a trained
physician can filter images and provide effective diagnoses and treatment
recommendations. We propose to link
high-resolution microscopic imaging with clinical expertise through
microscopy-enabled cell phones.
- October 3, 2007: 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Please join us for a talk on "Web 2015: Design and Collaboration for Social Change" by Paul Braund, Co-Founder of RIOS Institute.
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 Read more about sustainable building and trusting Wikipedia in the latest CITRIS newsletter.
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 Eric Brewer, a professor of computer
science at UC Berkeley, has spent the last five years seeking ways to
use WiFi to improve life in rural communities in the developing world. He shared his views and experiences in a keynote to a group of fellow
academics and engineers at recent workshop
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- March 5, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Tapan Parikh [Assistant Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley]
Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at RE-Spring2008. Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
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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,
- October 11, 2007: 11:30am - 1:00pm
- Location: 540 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley
Empowering Communities through Wireless Networks," by Yahel Ben-David, the Founder and CTO of AirJaldi.
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Two
UC projects are attempting to develop technologies to provide millions of families living in Indian slums, and
villagers in rural communities with safe, clean sources of drinking water.
- December 11, 2007: 1:00pm - 6:15pm
- Location: 306 Soda Hall, HP Auditorium, UC Berkeley
 Please join us for talks on innovative bi-national initiatives on topics ranging from
educating engineers, predicting cyclones, treating tuberculosis, and more. There will also be a panel discussion and networking reception.
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- December 12, 2008: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Location: Gordon and Betty Moore Lobby, Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley
 Please join us for our annual holiday gala on the Berkeley campus, featuring refreshments and live entertainment.
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Reliable and inexpensive broadband connects rural patients to eye doctors.
- November 14, 2007: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
 The Blum Center presents a talk by Tierry Sanders and Koen Wasmus of BiD Network Foundation, followed by a graduate student mixer.
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In Malaysia
around 40,000 people suffer from stroke every year. At least one-fourth of
stroke survivors experience aphasia, a communication impairment that varies
considerably across patients but most involves some form of deficit in language
comprehension. Language rehabilitation, especially when it is intense (8-10
hours/week for 12 weeks) and it starts early (after the patient's medical
condition has stabilized, often within 24 to 48 hours after the stroke,
preferably in acute-care hospitals), has been shown to be beneficial in
 Read about innovative work at CITRIS in the latest newsletter, now on-line.
The mission of the Social Entrepreneur Center is to promote the use of technology for social issues by creating sustainable enterprises. This will be achieved by
(i) creating an undergraduate major (and minors linked to existing majors) in social entrepreneurship well integrated with information and technology education,
(ii) fostering an internship program where students can add value to a company, an NGO (non-governmental organization), or a non-profit organization within US or in a foreign country by leveraging technology,
 The April newsletter features stories about technology for social impact: CellScope (cell phone + microscope) and enabling eye care in India using cheap, reliable Wi-Fi.
There are thousands of stand-alone projects that aim to bring information and communication technology (ICT) to developing regions, but nearly all depend on existing hardware and infrastructure developed for affluent regions. These imported technologies fail to address key challenges in cost, deployment, power, and support for semi-literate users. This proposal develops the key technologies and infrastructure to enable these projects, and many new applications that were previously intractable.
Windows media player file from Paul Braund's talk on "Web 2015: Design and Collaboration for Social Change" on October 3, 2007.
A CITRIS-affiliated program called ICT4B is developing new technologies
to meet the unique needs of the world's poorest people. Never has the
need seemed greater.
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A Philanthropist Speaks: "Lessons from Life, " by Sudha Murty, Chairperson of Infosys Foundation.
Currently, CITRIS has awarded 
Videos from CITRIS talks and events are now online at 
