Art, Technology and Culture: CITRIS News

The latest CITRIS newsletter is now online, witha story about a micro-robot made of paperboard and off-the-shelf electronics that could assist in recovery from natural disasters, and an interview with Greg Niemeyer, who creates games that can help engage people with serious issues, particularly that of climate change.

CITRIS is pleased to announce a new round of seed funding for FY 2010. It is open to all CITRIS investigators in UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz.

The spring schedule for the Research Exchange can be found at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-spring2010

- CITRIS Director Paul Wright delivers a message for the New Year -

CITRIS is a symbol of everything wonderful that the UC system offers the world in terms of education, research, and service. Several hundred graduate and undergraduate students on four campuses are funded by the national and international extra-mural grants that are brought into the UC system because of CITRIS. Our work covers energy, water, healthcare, and infrastructures and, by being multi-disciplinary, our students come from all walks of life.

A recent article in The Montclarion presents the vital role UC Berkeley plays on state, national and global levels in terms of educational and industrial advancements.

The Fall 2009 schedule for the CITRIS Research Exchange is now online. The talks begin Sept. 2 and will take place in the Banatao Auditorium at Sutardja Dai Hall.

 

Opinion Space, an experimental system for visualizing opinions and exchanging ideas, encourages people to express their opinions and lets them visualize where they stand relative to the diversity of other viewpoints.

Yahoo! today announced that it has expanded its partnerships with top U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon University in using Yahoo!’s cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale systems software research and explore new applications that analyze Internet-scale data sets, ranging from voting records to online news sources.

CITRIS is proud to announce the fourth annual CITRIS White Paper competition, which will give away $30K in cash prizes for the best ideas that demonstrate the ability of IT to address a major societal challenge.

Professor and CITRIS Director Emeritus Ruzena Bajcsy was recently awarded the Franklin Institute's 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. Prof. Bajcsy received the award for contributions to robotics and computer vision, specifically the development of active perception and the creation of methods to improve our understanding of medical images.

The spring semester schedule for the CITRIS Research Exchange is now online.

The theater performance by Gail de Kosnik and her colleagues at the annual Holiday Gala is now online.

The October newsletter is now online, featuring stories games for medical diagnosis and technology for giving voices to disenfranchised communities.

A recent article on Big Ideas appeared in Science magazine.

UC Santa Cruz has been given $457,909 to be used to provide financial aid for students enrolled in the innovative computer game design program in UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering.

The talk is live online at 4:00 p.m. mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast