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Most Popular Items: Services Science and Technology
- May 4, 2007: 7:15am - 6:30pm
- Contact: Masoud Nikravesh
- Location: Berkeley Art Museum Auditorium, 2621 Durant Ave
"The Future of Search" will examine the path towards the next generation of Search. This requires new technology for its development, engineering design and visualization. As the technological expertise for each component becomes increasingly complex, there is a need to better integrate them into a global model.
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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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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.
- 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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What is commonly considered the World Wide Web is in fact a small fraction of the actual data available on the Internet. The metaphor of a web was motivated by linked textual material, but the volume of hypertext on the Internet is dwarfed by the amount of information made available in networked databases provided by directory services, information portals, government agencies, private companies, scientists, and a host of other providers.
Collaboration and information-sharing are among the most important applications of computing. Privacy is a basic human need.
 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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- September 17, 2008: 3:00pm - September 18, 2008: 4:00pm
- Location: Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant, Berkeley CA
 This conference will bring together reseachers in academic, industry and clinical settings to discuss ways to improve upon the service of healthcare, both in the US and throughout the world.
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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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- October 30, 2007: 8:00am - 3:00pm
- Contact: yvette@citris-uc.org
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
CITRIS and IBM will join together for a series of talks on "Sensors, at Your Service," to be followed by a Distinguished Talk at 4:00 p.m. and a reception.
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- November 13, 2006: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: HP Auditorium, 306 Soda Hall, UC Berkeley campus
Dr. Darlene Solomon from Agilent Technologies gave a talk entitled "Powering Future Growth: Innovating and Commercializing Breakthrough Technologies" on Nov. 13 at 4:00 p.m. in the HP Auditorium, Soda Hall, UC Berkeley. Watch talk online
Sponsored by Infineon.
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Standard setting was rarely practiced so extensively as it has been in cyberspace so far. Acknowledging this unique regulative technique, the Clinton administration originally had made "industry self-regulation" its guiding principle for standardizing the net. So far, this principle has not been changed by the succeeding administration. This paper is a historical and conceptual critical assessment of that standardzation policy, examined through the prism of comparative institutional theory.
Task 1: Next Generation Network Architecture and Protocol Studies
Berkeley team, together with Davis team, will design next generation network architectures and protocols, and conduct comparative simulation studies on the designed protocols and architectures in terms of performance, robustness, and scalability. The studies will pay special attention to performance and robustness across heterogeneous networks (optical, wireline, wireless mobile layers) supporting emerging new services (realtime video applications, multimedia, and high-capacity data exchange).
Since anyone in the world can edit articles on Wikipedia, one of the most visited sites on the web, how do we know how to trust its content? One CITRIS researcher has a method.
The University of California at Berkeley has been given a grant to design,prototype, implement and evaluate a new search system for bioscience literature. There are significant components of the project that deal with processing of language as it is naturally spoken or written, the design of the search screen and how it works, as well as basic database design and implementation.
- September 26, 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 by Greg Niemeyer, Associate Professor for New Media Art, Art Practice and Film Studies, UC Berkeley.
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Our critical infrastructures continue to be vulnerable to cyber attack, and the nation is at risk from the convergence of cyber attack and more traditional terrorist activities. As the Internet has become pervasive and all of our critical infrastructures inextricably tied to information systems, we are increasingly at risk for economic, social and physical disruption through the rampant insecurities of information systems today. The urgent application of cyber defense technologies is required in order to adequately protect the nation's information infrastructures.
The research efforts of the RUBINET Group focus on designing network infrastructures that are robust, secure, efficient, and support ubiquitous (mobile) computing. With the rapid technology advancement in wireless sensors, specialized hand-held devices, and smart appliances, the future network infrastructure has to be flexible enough to connect these heterogeneous end nodes over different networks, from the conventional wide-area Internet to wireless and satellite links.
The capture of sensory data in three spatial dimensions in real time from multiple physically separate spaces, the projection of the data into shared virtual environments, and the projection of the virtual environments into immersive physical environments, constitute the emerging technology of tele-immersion.
- September 17, 2007: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location: 306 Soda Hall, HP Auditorium, UC Berkeley
 "Innovation Goes Public" by Bruce Perens, co-founder of
the Open Source initiative in software. The video is now online here.
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The Internet is one of the great technology success stories of the twentieth century, enabling greater access to information and provided new modes of communication among people and organizations. Unfortunately, the Internet's very success is now creating obstacles to innovation in the networking technology that lies at its core. The size and scope of the public Internet now make the introduction and deployment of new network services very difficult.
PlanetLab is an open, globally distributed testbed for developing, deploying and accessing planetary-scale network services. There are currently more than 220 machines at 100 sites world-wide available to support both short-term experiments and long-running network services.
- October 10, 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 "Driving Sustainable Consumption through Environmental Accounting of Retail Goods and Services," by
Arpad Horvath, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley.
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What is commonly considered the World Wide Web is a small fraction of the data available on the Internet. The volume of hypertext accessible to conventional search engines is 400 to 550 times smaller than the 7.5 petabytes of networked databases from directory services, information portals, scientists, government agencies and other providers. Our goal is to explore the mechanisms for and consequences of aggressively leveraging this underutilized resource.
Our practice of disseminating, accessing and using information, especially scholarly information, is still significantly impeded by the legacy of pre-electronic media. While overcoming these impediments will require many elements, there are opportunities for technological innovation to support new and better practices. For example, journals exist in their traditional forms at least partly because of the value of the peer review process, which thus far has not yielded to decentralized, distributed, and timely mechanisms of the Web.
Cryptography is a fundamental building block for building information systems, and as we enter the so-called "information age" of global networks, ubiquitous computing devices, and electronic commerce, we can expect that the cryptography will become only more important with time.
We are developing theories, software, and computational tools for the hierarchical modeling of distributed hybrid and embedded systems by providing technologies for their composable specification, analysis, simulation, and synthesis.
We shall help survey the state-of-the-art in hybrid and embedded system technology. The Berkeley contribution to the report will focus on established research projects and major industrial R&D and standardization efforts. Specifically included in this survey will be the SystemC initiative (www.systemc.org) and other component-based
- October 30, 2007: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley campus
 Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus of IBM Academy of Technology. The video is now online here.
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Model checking has become a successful verification technology for hardware, because it permits the fully automatic analysis of designs. For software verification, model checkers must be applied to finite abstractions of code. This requires suitable abstractions: if the abstraction is too coarse, the model checker fails to prove the desired property; if it is too fine, the model checker fails to terminate.
- 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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We define a "collaborative telerobot" as a telerobot simultaneously controlled by many participants, where input from each participant is combined to generate a single control stream.Collaborative Telerobotics (CT) is a highly innovative approach to teleimmersion and teleworking. With CT, participants collaborate rather than compete for access to valuable resources such as historical and scientific sites. A scalable infrastructure for CT, compatible with the Internet, would allow large groups of students or researchers to simultaneously
- 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 18, 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 Chris Hoofnagle, Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Boalt
Hall School of Law, at noon on April 18 in 290 HMMB at UC Berkeley.
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In collaboration with Microsoft, we have begun the TeleEducation/TeleCollaboration and Streaming Media project, which includes network protocols (including floor-control), multicasting, support for caching, and streaming media. These require extensive technology development beyond the current Internet, to effectively and affordably support quality real-time streaming media, dynamic
The proposal contains four major computational themes, which are linked in various ways.
Quantum Computation: a study of novel quantum algorithms, of entanglement as a computational resource, and of connections to fundamental issues in quantum physics, such as the transition from classical to quantum.
Modeling the Regulatory Processes of the Cell: in the post-genomic era, the computational modeling of the operation of an entire cell at the level of interactions among genes, proteins and environmental conditions.
Today’s computing has been a great success. Healthcare, financial, communication, and entertainment industries rely heavily on data centers. By some estimates, the amount of data processed in data centers is doubling every year. At this pace, there will be needs for many ultrahigh-performance data centers processing 1000 times more data in the next decade. However, today’s data centers
- April 30, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 3110 Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley
Lisa Iwamoto [Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley]
Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the spring semester is online at RE-Spring2008.Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
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- May 7, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Deryk Van Brunt [Professor of Public Health, UC Berkeley]
Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
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- April 28, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
 Jennie Chin Hansen, the President-Elect of AARP, will speak at CITRIS on the needs of seniors.
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Many software security issues cannot be addressed without a specification defining what security means. This project investigates secure API's and disciplined styles of programming that reduce the likelihood of security flaws and combines two related efforts: first, development of specification languages that enhance security without much cost to programmers, and second, tools that enforce these disciplines, such as the efficient insertion of security monitors into existing programs.
- January 31, 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 Professor Arpad Horvath at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday,
January 31 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley.
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- July 26, 2007: 4:00pm - July 29, 2007: 12:00pm
- More Information: Binary Being website
- Location: International House, UC Berkeley
A three-day symposium to explore the challenges of, and opportunities for, human identity in the computer age. Inspired by keynote addresses, dramatic presentations, and artistic activities (requiring no prior experience), participants will start a dialogue leading to a more conscious relationship with the computer.
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The Berkeley UPC Team will collaborate with Etnus to build a debugger for the Berkeley UPC Compiler. UPC is a parallel language that uses an explicitly parallel global address space programming model. Commercial implementations of UPC exist for some machines based on compilers that generate native code for a particular architecture. To enable ubiquitous access to the UPC language, the Berkeley UPC Team has developed a prototype UPC compiler that is designed for maximum portability.
- October 31, 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 by Hemant Bhargava, Professor of Management and Computer Science, UC Davis
Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at RE-Fall2007. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
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- November 14, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Costas Spanos, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, on "Innovations at the Design-Manufacturing Interface".
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SMETE.ORG agrees to work with MERLOT to meet the objectives outlined in the proposal "The NSDL Collaboration Finder: Connecting Projects for Effective and Efficient NSDL Development." NSDL means National Science Digital Library.
We propose a theory/experiment collaboration that will work towards reliable, scalable quantum information processing. Theory and experiment will be connected and interleaved at several levels. On the theory side, we will study issues concerned with the underlying information technology, and issues that arise when quantum information theory is applied to real physical systems, especially to gas phase systems using atoms and light fields. On the experimental side, we will develop scalable quantum component technology based on gas phase systems using atoms and light fields.
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 Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) and the educational arm of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) at UC Berkeley will test a number of models that might prove effective in applying technological solutions to problems of higher educational quality, cost, and access within the context of a major public research university.
- April 23, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Luis Orozco-Barbosa [Professor, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha]
Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the spring semester is online at RE-Spring2008. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
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- October 27, 2006: 8:30am - 2:00pm
- Location: UC Santa Cruz Campus at NASA Ames Research Center, Main ballroom of Building 3
The first Services meeting with CITRIS, IBM and METI at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
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The Wikipedia is a source of information widely used in homes, schools, and offices across California, and across the nation. The Wikipedia is also the most successful, and influential, example of collaborative content creation. Most Wikipedia articles can be edited by anyone. This openness has been a key factor in the success of the Wikipedia, but it also poses challenges. Rogue, misinformed, or misguided contributors can corrupt articles with incorrect information, and it is difficult for readers to judge the reliability of the information they are presented.
- May 18, 2007: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Location: E2 180, UC Santa Cruz
 James Fruchterman, the President and CEO of Benetech, gave a talk on "Smart Bombs to Reading Machines for the Blind" on May 18, which is now online.
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- June 5, 2007: 8:00am - June 9, 2007: 4:00pm
- Location: UC Berkeley campus
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Digital Earth is a visionary concept for the virtual and 3-D representation of the Earth that is spatially referenced and interconnected with digital knowledge archives from around the planet with vast amounts of scientific, natural, and cultural information to describe and understand the Earth, its systems, and human activities.
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- March 12, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Jennifer King [Clinical Research Assistant, Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic, UC Berkeley]
Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at RE-Spring2008. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
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 Read more about sustainable building and trusting Wikipedia in the latest CITRIS newsletter.
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- September 22, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Helene York is the director of the Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation, an
educational organization whose mission is to educate consumers, chefs, and food
service managers about how their food choices affect the environment and the
livelihoods of traditional food producers.
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 Come meet fellow project
leaders and learn about the work they're doing, as well as learn about Bears
Breaking Boundaries 2008.
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- April 24, 2008: 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
"Open
Innovation in Services"
Steve Wright, the Head of Strategic Research at BT, will speak at CITRIS.
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- February 20, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: 540 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley
 Dr. Dietrich's talk on "Business to Business Services" will outline opportunities for Operations Research in business services.
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- February 4, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Please join us at 4pm for a Services talk by Dr.
J. Sairamesh (Ramesh), Managing Partner at 360Fresh Inc.
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- May 30, 2007: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
- Location: swissnex, 730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA
This presentation provides an overview of recent developments in network technologies and musical practices that allow real-time and time shifted musical interactions between geographically separated users. An evening event at the Swissnex in San Francisco.
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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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CITRIS Center and Strategic Partner Development
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Please find the talk abstracts for CITRIS and IBM researchers for the Oct. 30 event.
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The Bay Area Drupal Camp (BadCamp) will take place at the UC Berkeley campus on Saturday and Sunday, Nov 3rd and 4th. BADCamp is an excellent opportunity to immerse yourself in Drupal for a couple of days and have a blast doing it.
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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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 Read about innovative work at CITRIS in the latest newsletter, now 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.
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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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From the outset, CITRIS involvement has been instrumental in helping to shape academic excellence at UC Merced. This influence is the innovative open source teaching and learning system developed by the School of Engineering at UC Merced, known as the Open Source Collaboratory. The Collaboratory represents an effort to provide an effective, relevant, and flexible environment for educating the next generation of computer literate and technologically confident college graduates.
The Collaboratory is a model for educational computing environments of the future:
Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that encompasses applications (science/engineering), applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and computer science and engineering in which high performance computing, large-scale simulation, and scientific applications play a central role.
- 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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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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 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.
Please find the biographies for speakers at the CITRIS IBM Day 2007 "Sensors, at your service"
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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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The latest CITRIS newsletter is now online, with stories about the Electronic Cultural Altas project and about Services at UCSC.
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Please find a list of the previous IBM Day events.
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Knowledge Services and Intelligent Service Platforms
 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.
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- October 12, 2007: 7:30am - 4:30pm
- Location: Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), LBNL
Between October 12, 2007 and November 1, 2007, there will be four one-day NSF workshops on Cyberenabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) at NSF Institutes, of which this is the first.
The plan for this workshop is to include key lectures about large scale interdisciplinary problems, round table discussions about mathematical challenges in these and related areas, and Q & A sessions about the structure of the CDI initiative and the NSF's expectations for proposals.
For the agenda and registration, please visit: http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/448/show_workshop
Directions to MSRI are at: http://www.msri.org/about/directions/index_html
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- October 1, 2007: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
- More Information: ATC website
- Location: 160 Kroeber Hall
Bill Fontana has worked for the past 30 years creating installations that use
sound as a sculptural medium to interact with and transform our perceptions of
visual and architectural settings.
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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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- February 29, 2008: 8:00am - 9:00pm
- Contact: Yoo
- Location: Crowne Plaza, SF Airport
What will Computing be like in 20 years? This workshop will promote discussions on a
comprehensive strategy that directly addresses the challenges of power-density,
bandwidth limits, programmability, and interconnect technologies.
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 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
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 A recent study by CITRIS researchers shows that banks and telecommunications companies are top targets for identity-theft.
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