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CITRIS/CPSRC Seminar: Andra Keay

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Speaker Name: Andra Keay

Speaker Title: Managing Director

Speaker Organization: Silicon Valley Robotics

Start Time: Thursday, Jan. 9th, 2020 – 1:30pm

End Time: Thursday, Jan. 9th, 2020 – 3:00pm

Location: E2-599

Abstract:

This seminar is a review of the latest investments into the robotics industry, and how difficulties in the categorization of the robotics industry in the U.S. and overseas hinders awareness of emerging robotics technologies. In 2014, the robotics industry hit two tipping points. One was a huge increase in funding going into new areas of emerging robotics industries, and the other has been the move away from traditional market analytics based on sales figures to predict future growth, towards the much more complex analysis of disruption, market cycles, and effectively trying to read the entrails of the investment industry.

Bio:

Andra Keay is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, the non-profit industry group supporting innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. Andra is also founder of the Robot Launch Global Startup Competition, Robot Garden Maker Space, and Women in Robotics. She is a mentor, investor and advisor to startups, accelerators and think tanks, with a strong interest in commercializing socially positive robotics and AI. She joined CITRIS People and Robots Research Group as a Visiting Scholar.

Three More Tech For Social Good Student Info Sessions

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Due to demand we have added three more Tech for Social Good Program student info and matchmaking sessions at the following campus locations and dates:

  • Wed, Oct 16, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Rachel Carson College, Red Room
  • Thurs, Oct 17, 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Arts Department, Seminar Room D101
  • Fri, Oct 18, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Social Sciences 2, Room 47

Come out to learn more about the program and application process. If you have an idea and need team mates, come prepared to give a short pitch of your idea and the skills you’re looking for in partners. If you have skills but no idea yet, show up to hear the pitches and find a team you’re interested in joining.

The CITRIS Tech for Social Good Program provides competitive funding support to undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students, groups, teams or organizations developing hardware, software, events or programs that explore solutions to society’s pressing challenges. Receive up to $5000 for your team’s project idea and up to $1000 for an event or programming you’d like to run. Learn more here.

Tech for Social Good – Student Info and Matchmaking Session

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Start Time: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 – 4:00pm
End Time: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 – 6:00pm
Location: Engineering 2, Room 180
Organizer:  CITRIS and the Banatao Institute / Institute for Social Transformation

We are excited to announce the launch of the new Tech for Social Good program at UC Santa Cruz, cosponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation. The program will provide competitive funding for student research projects and events, encouraging students across all campus divisions to participate and form cross-disciplinary teams.

The Tech for Social Good program supports student-led learning and technology development for healthy, sustainable, connected, and equitable livelihoods in the United States and abroad. Join us for an information and matchmaking session for students on Tuesday, October 1, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Engineering 2, Room 180.

The program is open to teams of graduate and undergraduate students and has two competitive tracks, one to support technology development and another to support student-led events on campus. Through the technology track, students can apply for funding of $500 to $5,000 for tech-focused projects that promote social good by supporting healthy, sustainable, prosperous, and equitable livelihoods in the United States and abroad.

The events track will provide between $200 and $1,000 for individual students, student organizations, or student groups at UC Santa Cruz to develop events or programming that improve and support technological innovations that support healthy, sustainable, and connected communities.

CITRIS Tech For Social Good Program – Faculty and Staff Info Session

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Speaker Organization: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Start Time: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 – 4:00pm

End Time: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 – 5:00pm

Location: E2- 180

Organizer: Michael Matkin

This Fall term, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and co-sponsor the Institute for Social Transformation are launching a new program, Tech for Social Good (TSG), to sponsor student research projects and events here on UC Santa Cruz campus.
All faculty and staff are invited to an information session on September 18th from 4:00 to 5:00 pm in Baskin Engineering 2, room 180. The purpose of the session is to give you a clear understanding of the program in order to promote and encourage your students to apply – we’ll also have coffee and snacks. Please click here to RSVP if you can attend in person or via Zoom or can’t attend and would like more info.
TSG is open to teams of graduate and undergraduate students and has two competitive tracks, one that supports technology development and the second to support student-led events on campus. Through the technology track, students can apply for funding of $500 – $5,000 for tech-focused projects that promote social good by supporting healthy, sustainable, prosperous, and equitable livelihoods in the United States and abroad. Through the events track we provide between $200 – $1,000 for UC Santa Cruz individual students, student organizations or student groups to develop events or programming that improve and support technological innovations that support healthy, sustainable, and connected communities.
TSG is a program that CITRIS has successfully run on the UC Berkeley and Davis campuses for several years, funding and supporting a wide range of successful student-led projects and events – examples of which you can review here:

Thursday, June 6th – Humanity’s Last Stand: The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence

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An Evening With Nicanor Perlas, Right Livelihood Award Laureate

Thursday, June 6th, 2019, 7:00 PM
UC Santa Cruz, Kresge College Seminar Room

Lecture with Nicanor Perlas, followed by panel discussion with Anthony Aguirre, Associate Professor of Physics; Lise Getoor, Professor of Computer Science; and, Sikina Jinnah, Associate Professor of Politics. This event is free and open to the public.

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Click here for details and to RSVP. Nicanor Perlas is also teaching the Right Livelihood Summer Institute on July 8-12, 2019. Click here for details.

CITRIS Seed Funding Information Session – Jan. 9th – 12:30 PM – E2-180

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CITRIS and the Banatao Institute has $600,000 available through its 2019 Core Seed Funding Program for research that aims to create information technology solutions for society’s most pressing challenges. Individual grants range from $40,000-$60,000 and are open to researchers at all CITRIS campuses: UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Davis Health and UC Merced. Projects must include at least 2 PIs from different CITRIS campuses.

Join us on Wednesday January 9th at 12:30 pm in Baskin Engineering, building E2, room 180 (the Simularium) to learn more about the program and have all your questions answered.

RSVP if you can attend in person, would like to attend via teleconference (a link will be sent to you via email) or simply would like further information. The RSVP form is here.

For questions, contact Michael Matkin, Assistant Director, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Santa Cruz – mmatkin (at) ucsc (dot) edu.

Zest Talk series – Sri Kurniawan 10/6

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The goal of the zest series is to share ideas and knowledge that is being pioneered by individuals that are affiliated with UC Santa Cruz. Zest is inspired by the innovative labs that CITRIS principal investigators develop alongside undergraduate and graduate students here at UCSC. We hope to ignite the imagination of students by discussing the work that faculty and undergraduates are doing with the tools that UCSC has to offer.

Games have the power to motivate health and rehabilitation programs to be more interactive, fun and playful, while allowing progress to be monitored and communicated by the underlying sensors and algorithms. Learn how, through user-centered design methodology, we can balance the design and functionalities of the games while maintaining the playful aspects of repetitive, intensive and often boring tasks.