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Wright named chief scientist at Berkeley CITRIS
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Paul Wright is the new chief scientist at Berkeley CITRIS, the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society.
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ME professor Paul Wright was appointed new chief scientist at Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) on January 1. He succeeds EECS professor James Demmel.
The A. Martin Berlin Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Wright is co-director of the Berkeley Manufacturing Institute and the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. An expert on high-tech product design and rapid manufacturing, he joined the Berkeley faculty in 1991.
“There is a bubbling sense of excitement within CITRIS about the new headquarters at Berkeley and its ability to bring together multidisciplinary teams to impact vitally important issues,” Wright says.
Scheduled for completion in 2008, the building will provide a centralized locus for CITRIS research now ongoing in multiple locations by 100 Berkeley faculty in engineering, science, social science, law, information management, health care and other disciplines. Four UC campuses and more than 60 supporting companies are also involved.
For more details on CITRIS, go to www.citris-uc.org.
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