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).
The June 2008 newsletter is now online, with two stories on key energy projects in both engine development and predicting solar availability for utilities.
Currently, CITRIS has awarded approximately $2 million in
seed grants on all four campuses. These projects will help fulfill
the CITRIS mission of creating societal-based research through collaborations
across the CITRIS campuses.
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.
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.
UC Berkeley is partnering with Intel and
Microsoft to accelerate developments in parallel computing and advance the
powerful benefits of multi-core processing to mainstream consumer and business
computers.
An online mystery game in which student sleuths will monitor air pollution in
South Central Los Angeles and in Cairo, Egypt, and a project using cell phones
to teach English to children in India have won funding for two UC Berkeley professors
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.
A new ECAI-related project, "Context and Relationships: Ireland and Irish
Studies," aims to better connect Irish studies materials and to make them easily
accessible from anywhere with a quick click of the computer mouse.
Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the
Web encyclopedia's reliability varies wildly. Now Luca de Alfaro
aims to provide users with software that flags questionable
lines in Wikipedia entries.
The 
A recent article on Big Ideas appeared in 
Talks and discussions from the recent Services in Health care conference are online at 
Dictionaries in the classroom may go the way of typewriters if researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have their way.
The fall semester schedule for the popular Research Exchange series is now 
The June 2008 newsletter is 
Currently, CITRIS has awarded 
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.
The 
UC Berkeley is partnering with Intel and
Microsoft to accelerate developments in parallel computing and advance the
powerful benefits of multi-core processing to mainstream consumer and business
computers.
A recent study by CITRIS researchers shows that banks and telecommunications companies are top targets for identity-theft.
An online mystery game in which student sleuths will monitor air pollution in
South Central Los Angeles and in Cairo, Egypt, and a project using cell phones
to teach English to children in India have won funding for two UC Berkeley professors
Read about innovative work at CITRIS in the latest newsletter, now 
Read more about sustainable building and trusting Wikipedia in the latest CITRIS newsletter.
A new ECAI-related project, "Context and Relationships: Ireland and Irish
Studies," aims to better connect Irish studies materials and to make them easily
accessible from anywhere with a quick click of the computer mouse.
The latest CITRIS newsletter is now online, with stories about the Electronic Cultural Altas project and about Services at UCSC.
Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the
Web encyclopedia's reliability varies wildly. Now Luca de Alfaro
aims to provide users with software that flags questionable
lines in Wikipedia entries.