 CITRIS Research Exchange - Spring 2020 Schedule
Free and open to the public, the CITRIS Research Exchange offers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic, industry, and civic leaders. Each hour-long seminar is on Wednesday from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm in the Banatao Auditorium at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Lunch included with registration (first-come-first-serve basis). January 29, 2020 Rama Akkiraju, Director at IBM Watson and "Forbes Top 20" in AI Register > February 5, 2022 Vincent Vanhoucke, Director of Google Brain Team and Robotics at Google. Register > February 12, 2020 Mallik Tatipamula, CTO for Ericsson Silicon Valley innovating in 5G and IoT Register > February 19, 2022 Maggi Kelly, “Mapping a Changing California” through GIS and DataViz Register > February 26, 2020 Jen Schradie, Author of “The Revolution That Wasn’t” on digital activism Register > March 4, 2020 Grace Gu, “Innovator Under 35” by MIT Tech Review for bioinspired materials Register > March 11, 2020 Stephen Robinson, Former NASA astronaut, now researching human survival in extreme hazards Register > March 18, 2020 Sarah Kurtz, Accelerating California’s energy revolution through research and education Register > April 1, 2020 Karina Edmonds, Leading university collaborations for Google Cloud; previously U.S. DOE tech transfer coordinator Register > April 8, 2020 Solomon Hsiang, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy focused on climate change Register >
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 Free and open to the public, the CITRIS Research Exchange offers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic, industry, and civic leaders. Each hour-long seminar is on Wednesday from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm in the Banatao Auditorium at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Lunch included.
Wed, September 11, 2019 Jutta Williams Senior Program Manager, Facebook Register > Wed, September 25, 2019 Jiang Lin Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley Nat Simons Presidential Chair in China Energy Policy, LBNL Register > Wed, October 2, 2019 5G, Tech and Policy Leaders Register > Wed, October 9, 2019 Rama Akkiraju IBM Fellow, AI Operations, IBM Watson, IBM Master Inventor, member, IBM Academy of Technology, IBM Register > Wed, October 16, 2019 Lisa Yeo Assistant Professor, UC Merced Register > Wed, October 23, 2019 Oscar Dubón Vice Chancellor of Equity & Inclusion, UC Berkeley Register > Wed, October 30, 2019 Yana Feldman Nonproliferation and International Safeguards Analyst, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Register > Wed, November 13, 2019 Irma Olguin Jr. Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Bitwise Industries Register > Wed, November 20, 2019 Victoria Coleman CEO, Atlas AI Register > CITRIS and the Banatao Institute have partnered with the Lawrence Hall of Science on an exhibit that spun from the Sophie’s Super Hand and Million Hands projects out of the CITRIS Invention Lab. The Prosthetic Hand Challenge, which enables children to design, build, and test a working prosthetic hand, is open at Lawrence Hall through June 30, 2019.  In collaboration with midwives in Ghana, Visualize designs, builds, and implements low- cost training devices that assist in teaching healthcare providers how to screen for cervical cancer. Read more : https://citris-uc.org/from-invention-lab-to-ghana-training-devices-to-screen-for-cervical-cancer/  HACK YOUR GRADUATION HAT • CITRIS Invention Lab • Fri 17 May 9-5pm Don’t be caught at graduation with an ordinary, boring, standard issue graduation hat…celebrate your creativity and individuality while you celebrate your accomplishment of graduation!
** ALL GRADUATING UC BERKELEY STUDENTS WELCOME ** ** NO MAKER PASS REQUIRED ** Come join us at the CITRIS Invention Lab Fri 17 May from 9-5pm. We’ll be there to help you hack your graduation hat (or other graduation gear). This is open to not only all Maker Pass holders but all UC Berkeley graduating students. So even if you don’t have a Maker Pass you are welcome to participate! Even if you are not graduating, feel free to come by. See you Friday….and again congratulations on your upcoming graduation! This CITRIS Invention Lab Team! 2019 CAL Day was over, but those fun memories of making together will last and continue to spark more creativity in the hearts of the next generations. Video Credit: Annalise Kamegawa  The Invention Lab will be open for visitors this Cal Day from 10-2pm. Outside, On the Yali's Cafe patio, we will have a large-scale, hands on, interactive ball run constructed completely out of cardboard and dowels that can be modified, added to, refined, dismantled and tested to demonstrate the principles of rapid prototyping and testing and the wide range usefulness of recycled materials. Inside, student projects will be on display and visitors can construct a movable mechanisms, also out of cardboard, as a playful introduction to mechanisms. There will be 3D printing and laser cutter demonstrations along with explanations of other the equipment in the lab. The door from the patio to the 1st floor will be open providing direct access between the lab and outside so folks have easier time finding the lab.  Photo by Adriel Olmos  Photo by Kuan-Ju Wu Berkeley City Council members Tour CITRIS and the Banatao Institute at UC Berkeley
Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin and City Councilmembers Kate Harrison (District 4), Sophie Hahn (District 5), and Rigel Robinson (District 7) toured the CITRIS Invention Lab and CITRIS Tech Museum on Tuesday afternoon. They learned about the ways the Institute is advancing information technology in the interest of society through its new Policy Lab, helping create an equal playing field for women in tech through WITI@UC, and has supported 48 "deep tech" startups through the CITRIS Foundry. This was the first stop on the Innovation Assets tours that the Berkeley Startup Cluster will be organizing for Berkeley City Council this year.  Making Together: Crossing Borders + Connecting Communities
How can we proactively leverage the culture and creativity of maker spaces as a community engagement tool to collaborate, educate, and champion equity and inclusion? Take action and join this movement through a unique collaboration between the CITRIS Invention Lab at UC Berkeley and Innovaction Gym maker space at the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. We are seeking a cohort of dedicated, passionate, creative students (undergraduates and/or graduates) from all disciplines to apply to participate in this exciting and rewarding program. Throughout the course of this semester students will meet and work with students at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Meetings will take place over video every two weeks where students will collaboratively develop physical prototypes for designs focusing on addressing issues germane between the cultures of the United States and Mexico as lensed through academic makerspaces. Relevant topics include borders, immigration, walls, indigenous languages, educational tools in makerspaces. Later students will meet in person to finalize designs and share experiences and learning from each others practices. In May, Tecnológico de Monterrey students will visit UC Berkeley. Similarly, selected UC Berkeley students will get the opportunity visit Tecnológico de Monterrey in August. Support for travel is provided as part of the selection process. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in leading work that literally cuts across borders and expands the ecosystem of making across differing cultures. Participants will work closely with leadership from the two universities: Tecnológico de Monterrey Azael Capetillo, ITESM, Innovaction GYM Cristina G. Reynaga-Peña, ITESM, School of Humanities and Education Juan Manuel Fernández-Cárdenas, ITESM, School of Humanities and Education Leonardo David Glasserman Morales, ITESM, School of Humanities and Education UC Berkeley Eric Paulos, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Jill Miller, Department of Art Practice Chris Myers, CITRIS Invention Lab Kuan-Ju Wu, CITRIS Invention Lab The team will work closely with Tecnológico de Monterrey team and will participate in a trip to Monterrey, Mexico in Summer. Apply now using this link: https://goo.gl/forms/0Sp69GpyUlrP0itV2 Apply by: 18 Feb 11:59pm Selections and First Meeting: 22 Feb  CITRIS Invention Lab is thrilled to host 60 high school students from Lima, Peru for a tour about 3D Printing, Arduino, and Soft Robotics. The visit is organized by INvent and United Technologies For Kids. Invent is an organization that teaches technology to economically disadvantaged high schoolers from Peru and Columbia every year and follows up with the students with a conference at UC Berkeley. United Technologies for Kids (UTK) is a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging STEM education in high schools globally. Each June, our team of dedicated UC Berkeley students travels to Perú or Colombia to teach Arduino technology and 3D printing, for a month. The students demonstrate their mastery of these technologies by creating and presenting projects during our annual UTK conference at UC Berkeley in February. To learn more about UTK, visit https://utk.berkeley.edu/ |
Invention Lab is made possible by the support of CITRIS and Banatao Institute.
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