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Traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area is bad. The Mobile Millennium gathers real-time data to make it better.

Rushing into damaged buildings is dangerous and can endanger not only rescue workers but also the victims they are working to save. Sending in robots that are equipped with various kinds of sensors to do reconnaissance is much safer, and these robots can search for signs of life and report back to waiting operators.

Researchers at CITRIS have teamed up to develop a video game that can screen young children for fragile X  syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental impairment.

Artist Sharon Daniel helps give disenfranchised groups, such as women prisoners and shantytown dwellers, access to technology to document their experiences.

New materials under development by Ali Shakouri, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, stand to convert energy now wasted as heat into a reusable new source of electricity.

The CITRIS conference in June in Copenhagen focused on the relationships among public policy, the role of business, and technological means that could be used to fight global warming.

CITRIS researchers are developing engines that use 15 percent less fuel than gas engines and emit only 30 percent of the NOx of a typical diesel engine. Thus, they appear to combine the best of both engines. Except for one problem: temperature variations.

Within 15 years, solar power could produce as much as 15 percent of all the energy consumed in California. However, given our current inability to predict reliably the amount of direct solar irradiance available to the state’s energy grid at least a day or two in advance, utility companies cannot risk relying on this highly productive source. CITRIS researchers are working to solve that problem.

Reliable and inexpensive broadband connects rural patients to eye doctors.

Smaller, hotter, safer, and more versatile nuclear power plants may help address environmental and security concerns.

Shawn Newsam is developing a network of several dozen cameras that can collect data and possibly analyze air particulates around the Central Valley. The project could provide a quick, easily accessible way to evaluate local air quality in real time.

Dissecting Sustainable Development

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.