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UC Berkeley researchers receive $2M grant to build criminal justice Big Data tools

CS Prof. Joseph Hellerstein, and Assistant Profs. Aditya Parmeswaran and Sarah Chasins, are among the principal investigators of a new lab that received a $2 million grant from the NSF.

NSF awards $1.2M grant to UC Santa Cruz for research on social wearables

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1.2 million grant to a team led by Katherine Isbister, professor of computational media at UC Santa Cruz.

Using pencils to draw bioelectronic tattoos

One day, people could monitor their own health conditions by simply picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin, according to researchers.

MIT: Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as memristors.

Cornell University: Microscale, privacy-concious, data-driven planning applications with Ancile

A team of Cornell University researchers has developed and tested a platform, Ancile, that allows users to set restrictions on what kind of data they’ll release, and to whom.