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Talks, workshops

Links to: workshop, conference, invited session organization, plenary or keynote speaker, invited seminars, industry and government talks, talks at workshops, conferences or meetings, press conferences, press releases, TV interviews, radio interviews, newspaper articles, other media outlets. In addition, numerous of the newspaper articles, TV interviews, radio interviews or other media coverage items can be viewed from the following links on the Mobile Millennium website (click here).

Workshop, conference, invited session organization

Plenary or Keynote Speaker

  • 13th Annual Inventor Recognition Banquet, NAVTEQ, The Rookery, Chicago, June 3, 2010
  • ARM TechCon3, "Mobile Millennium: using smartphones to monitor traffic", Santa Clara Convention Center, October 21, 2009
  • NAVTEQ Traffic Symposium, ``Mobile Millennium: using GPS to reconstruct traffic'', New York, NY. November 17th, 2008

Invited seminars

  • CEMAGREF, Montpellier, France, July 2, 2010, Host: Dr. Xavier Litrico, ``Mobile Floating Sensor Network for Environmental Monitoring and Emergency Response''.
  • Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees (ENPC), INRETS, Marne la Vallee, France, July 1, 2010, Host: Professor Jean-Patrick Lebacque, ``Mobile millennium: using smartphones to monitor traffic in privacy aware environments''.
  • Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Transportation and Logistics Division, Stockholm, Sweden, April 16, 2010, Host: Professor Haris Koutsopoulos, ``Mobile millennium: using smartphones to monitor traffic in privacy aware environments''.
  • Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, March 12, 2010, Host: Dr. Gary Kelson, ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic".
  • Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, NM, December 8th, 2009, Host: Dr. Scott Backhaus, ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic".
  • UC Berkeley, EECS Department, TRUST Center, September 10th, 2009, Host: Professor Shankar Sastry, ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic".
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, July 31st, 2009, Host: Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva, ``Data assimilation for real time traffic flow reconstruction".
  • Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), PARC Symposium, Palo Alto, CA, July 9th, 2009, Host: Dr. Craig Eldershaw, ``Mobile Millennium, using cell phone to monitor traffic in privacy aware environments". [Watch video]
  • University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Electrical Engineering, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing Seminar}, UCLA, CA, June 19th, 2009. Host: Professor Deborah Estrin. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • California Institute of Technology, Control and Dynamical Systems semina}, Pasadena, CA, June 18th, 2009. Host: Professor Jerry Marsden. ``Mobile Millennium" using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Controls Seminar, Princeton, NJ, June 16th, 2009. Host: Professor Naomi Leonard. ``Mobile Millennium" using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • Stanford University, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Controls Seminar, Stanford, CA, May 20th, 2009. Host: Professor Per Enge. ``Mobile Millennium" using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • Microsoft Research Symposium, Seattle, WA, May 14th, 2009. Host: Dr. Eric Horvitz. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • University of California, Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Transportation Seminar}, Davis, CA, April 10th, 2009. Host: Professor Michael Zhang. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETHZ), Electrical Engineering Department, Zurich, Switzerland, March 24th, 2009. Host: Professor Manfred Morari. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical Engineering Department, Coordinated Science Laboratory}, Urbana-Champaign, IL, March 18th, 2009. Host: Professor Daniel Liberzon. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Decision and Control Laboratory, Atlanta, GA, March 13th, 2009. Host: Professor Eric Feron. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • University of Pennsylvania, Electrical Engineering Department, Robotics Seminar, Philadelphia, PA, March 5th, 2009. Host: Professor George Pappas. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • UC Berkeley, Mathematics Department, Applied Mathematics Seminar, Berkeley, CA, February 20th, 2009. Host: Professor Jon Wilkening. ``Construction of lower semi continuous solutions to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation with internal boundary conditions: application to highway traffic monitoring''.
  • University of California San Diego (UCSD), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Control Seminar}, La Jolla, CA, February 13th, 2009. Host: Professor Miroslav Krstic. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • UC Berkeley, EECS-CEE-ME, Control Seminar, Berkeley, CA, February 27th, 2009. Host: Professor Ruzena Bajcsy. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • Northwestern University, Civil Engineering, Transportation Seminar, Evanston, IL, December 4th, 2008. Host: Professor Marco Nie. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • UC Berkeley, CITRIS Research Exchange, UC Berkeley, CA, April 16th, 2008. Host: Professor Paul Wright. ``Integrating Motion into Infrastructure using Cell Phones'' [Watch video]
  • UC Berkeley, CITRIS - ITS seminar, UC Berkeley, CA, February 8th, 2008. Host: Professor Paul Wright. ``Mobile century: using GPS mobile phones as traffic sensors''. [Watch video]
  • UC Berkeley, CEE Department, ITS seminar, UC Berkeley, CA, December 14th, 2007. Host: Professor Mark Hansen. ``Travel time estimation using probe vehicle data: the Nokia N95 experience''.
  • UC Berkeley, Mathematics Department, Applied Math Seminar, UC Berkeley, CA, November 29, 2006. Host: Professor John Willkening. ``Control, estimation and simulation of dynamical systems using viability theory''.
  • UC Berkeley, CEE Department, ITS Seminar. September 1,2006. Host: Professor Mark Hansen. ``Network-based TFM optimization algorithms for aggregate flow models of the NAS''.
  • NASA Ames Research Center, NASA AFC Air Traffic Management Seminar. NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA, July 31, 2006. Host: Dr. Banavar Sridhar. ``Network-based TFM optimization algorithms for aggregate flow models of the NAS''.
  • University of Illinois at Urbana Champain, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerospace Seminar}. February 6, 2006. Host: Professor Natasha Neogi. ``Approximation algorithms for arrivial sequencing in congested airspaces''.
  • UC Berkeley, IEOR Department, IEOR Seminar. September 26, 2005. Host: Professor Max Shen. ``Approximation Algorithms for Arrival Sequencing in Congested Airspaces''.
  • UC Berkeley, CEE Department, ITS Seminar. April 15, 2005. Host: Professor Mark Hansen. ``Control of PDE Networks Via Adjoint-based Optimization: application to highways and air traffic control''.
  • Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, Controls Seminar, Centre d'Automatique et des Systemes (CAS), Control Seminar.} Fontainebleau, France, March 8, 2004. Host: Professor Nicolas Petit. ``Adjoint-based constrained control of Eulerian models of transportation networks''.
  • Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France, Viability Seminar. Paris, France, March 2, 2004. Host: Professor Jean-Pierre Aubin, Universite Paris Dauphine. ``Adjoint-based constrained control of Eulerian models of transportation networks''.
  • Stanford University, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AA297 Seminar in Guidance and Control. Stanford, CA, October 1, 2003. Host: Professor Steven Rock. ``Computational control of networks of dynamical systems: application to the National Airspace System''.
  • UC Berkeley, EECS Department, CHESS Seminar. Berkeley, CA, October 7, 2003. Host: Professor Shankar Sastry. ``Computational control of networks of dynamical systems: application to the National Airspace System''.
  • UC Berkeley, EECS Department, CHESS Seminar. Berkeley, CA, April 29, 2003. Host: Professor Shankar Sastry. ``A short introduction to Viability Theory''.
  • Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering Department, Mechanical Engineering Seminar. Stanford, CA, April 22, 2003. Host: Professor Fritz Prinz. ``Computational control of networks of dynamical systems''.
  • NASA Ames Research Center, NASA AFC Air Traffic Management Seminar. NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA, March 17, 2003. Host: Dr. Banavar Sridhar. ``Computational control of networks of dynamical systems''.
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ICAT Seminar. Cambridge, MA, April 9, 2003. Host: Professor Eric Feron. ``Computational control of networks of dynamical systems''.
  • Stanford University, CS Department, CS-theory lunch Seminar. Stanford, CA, April 3, 2003. Host: Professor Mihalis Yannakakis. ``Computational control of networks of dynamical systems''.
  • Stanford University, MS&E Department, SOL Seminar. Stanford, CA, April 2, 2003. Host: Professor Yinyu Ye. ``Computational control of networks of dynamical systems''.
  • NASA Ames Research Center, NASA AFC Air Traffic Management Seminar. NASA Ames, Moffett Field, October 21, 2002. Host: Dr. Banavar Sridhar. ``MILP solutions for partial automation of congested airspaces in arrival areas''.
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ICAT Seminar. Cambridge, MA, September 26, 2002. Host: Professor Eric Feron. ``Mathematical and computational tools for hierarchical control of hybrid systems: application to the NAS''.
  • NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Air Traffic Management Seminar. NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA, July 29, 2002. Host: Dr. George Meyer. "Delay predictive models for sector-based air traffic flow''.
  • University of Pennsylvania, EE Department, GRASP Seminar. Philadelphia, PA, June 14, 2002. Host: Professor George Pappas. ``Computational methods for hybrid systems, application to the National Airspace System''.

Industry and government talks

  • Department of Homeland Security, Moffett Field, CA, February 11, 2010, ``Mobile Sensing for traffic, environmental monitoring and emergency response''.
  • US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MI, January 11th, 2010, "Mobile Floatin sensor network for environmental monitoring and emergency response''.
  • Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, December 11th, 2009, ``Mobile Millennium, using phones as traffic sensors''.
  • Polaris, Santa Clara, CA, November 19th, 2009, ``Mobile Millennium, using phones as traffic sensors''.
  • VOLPE Center (US DOT), Boston, MA, November 13th, 2009, ``Mobile Millennium
  • TTI Vanguard, Jersey City, NJ, September 28th, 2009, ``More from less: Mobile Millennium, using phones as traffic sensors''.
  • NAVTEQ, Chicago, IL, September 28th, 2009, ``Mobile Millennium''.
  • T-Mobile labs, Mountain View, CA, September 18th, 2009. ``Mobile Millennium, using phones as traffic sensors''.
  • NAVTEQ, Chicago, IL, July 23rd, 2009. ``Mobile Millennium''.
  • Energy Efficiency; Cyber-Physical Systems; Medical Devices & Systems, Siemens Corporate Headquarters, Munich, Germany, May 28th, 2009. ``Mobile Phones as Sensors for Improved Energy Efficiency''.
  • Siemens -- Berkeley Day, Siemens Corporate Headquarters, Munich, Germany, May 27th, 2009. ``Mobile Phones as Sensors for Improved Energy Efficiency''.
  • VOLVO Centers of Excellence Symposium, Gothenborg, Sweden, April 19th, 2009. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • South Bay Traffic Officials Association (SBTOA), San Jose, CA, March 10th, 2009. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • Ministere des Transports -- California DOT meeting, Richemond, CA, January 23, 2008. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • NAVTEQ, Chicago, IL, December 4th, 2008. ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • California DOT meeting, ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic'', Richmond Field Station, CA, August 12, 2008.
  • ITS Board of Directors meeting, ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic'', Richmond Field Station, CA, August 6, 2008.
  • California Department of Water Resources, ``Lagrangian drifter technology for monitoring the Sacramento Delta'', Sacramento, CA, July 25, 2008.
  • Boeing-Berkeley meeting, ``Aggregate traffic flow models for the en route airspace'', UC Berkeley, July 15th, 2008.
  • US DOT, California DOT (Caltrans), Sacramento, CA, June 16, 2007. ``Mobile Millennium kick off''.
  • Siemens confidential briefing, UC Berkeley, CA, April 9, 2008. ``Sensors for the aquatic environment''.
  • US DOT, California DOT (Caltrans), Richmond Field Station, CA, June 12, 2007. ``Mobile Century Results''.
  • Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, June 11, 2007. ``Mobile Millennium''.
  • Siemens strategic visit, UC Berkeley, CA, April 9, 2008. ``Mobility tracking in large scale physical systems''.
  • Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, November 15, 2007. ``Real time traffic monitoring from GPS phones''.
  • California DOT (Caltrans), Sacramento, CA February 2, 2007. ``Optimal sensor requirements for corridor instrumentation guidelines''.
  • NSF - NITRD Workshop, Alexandria, VA, October 5, 2006. ``NAS-wide traffic modeling software for traffic flow management High Confidence Software and Systems''.
  • Sensis corporation, Campbell, CA, May 15, 2006. ``Development of decision support tools for air traffic management''.
  • SAGEM, Le Ponant de Paris, France, December 9, 2004. ``Interactions between defense industry and academia''.
  • NASA Joint University Program Meeting, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, September 26, 2003. ``Adjoint-based constrained control of Eulerian network models of the National Airspace System''.
  • Boeing - DARPA SEC Meeting, Stanford University, CA, April 15, 2003. ``Conflict avoidance using differential games: application to high altitude traffic''.
  • Ambassade de France (French Embassy), Washington D.C., June 13, 2002. ``Computational methods for hybrid systems, application to multivehicle systems''.
  • 43th Aeronautics and Astronautics Industrial Affiliates Meeting, Stanford University, CA April 23, 2002. ``Delay predictive models of the National Airspace System''.
  • DARPA Meeting, Stanford University, CA, March 11, 2002. ``Design of network maneuvers and actuation policies for the National Airspace System''.
  • Dassault-Falconjet, Saint-Cloud France, May 16, 2001. ``Reachability computations for predictive models of dynamical systems and the National Airspace System''.

Talks at workshops, conferences, or meetings

  • ICRA10 workshop on Robotics and Intelligent Transportation Systems, Anchorage, AK, May 7th, 2010, ``Mobile Sensing for traffic and environmental monitoring'' [Talk delivered by Andrew Tinka].
  • PATH-Tsinghua workshop, PATH, Richmond Field Station, Richmond, CA, April 7th, 2010, ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • AAAI Spring Symposia Series, Embedded Reasoning: Intelligence in Embedded Systems, Stanford, CA, March 24th, 2010, ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic''.
  • 2009 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Special SIAM session, Shanghai, Chna, October 21rd, 2009, ``Dirichlet Problems for Some Hamilton-Jacobi Equations with Inequality Constraints".
  • Position and Time, 3rd Annual Symposium, Stanford University, Stanford Center for Navigation, Stanford, CA, October 21rd, 2009, ``Mobile Millennium: using cell phones to monitor traffic".
  • TTI - Vanguard "More from Less", Jersey City, NJ, October 1st, 2009, ``Mobile Millennium, using smartphones to monitor traffic''.
  • 2009 National Highway Data Workshop and Conference, California Department of Transportation, Oakland, CA, September 23rd, 2009. ``Mobile Millennium, using phones as traffic sensors
  • CalDay College of Engineering Speaker, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 18th, 2009. ``Mobile Millennium: using GPS to reconstruct traffic''.
  • 15th World Congress on ITS, Safe trip 21 session, New York, NY, November 18th, 2008, ``Mobile Millennium: using GPS to reconstruct traffic''.
  • SUPERB seminar, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, July 3rd, 2008. ``Mobile Millennium: using GPS to reconstruct traffic''.
  • CalDay College of Engineering , UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 11th, 2008. ``Mobile Century Traffic Project: GPS in your cell phone''.
  • Vincent Lo & Shanghai -- CITRIS}, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, November 14th, 2007. ``Large scale infrastructure systems monitoring using cellular phones''.
  • Nokia delegation meeting -- CITRIS, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, November 7th, 2007. ``Large scale infrastructure systems monitoring using cellular phones''.
  • CITRIS - Tekes meeting, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, October 1, 2007 . ``Large scale infrastructure monitoring using mobile sensor networks''.
  • National Airspace System Performance Workshop. Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA, September 6, 2007. ``Network based optimization for TFM aggregate flow models''.
  • HSCC 2007 satellite Workshop on modeling and control of physical networks, Pisa, Italy, April 6, 2007. ``Modeling and analysis of single flagellum bacterial motion''.
  • CEE Advisory Council, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, CA, May 3, 2007. ``Control and optimization of large scale infrastructure systems''.
  • NASA NGATS ATM airspace project first technical interchange Meeting, NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA, March 20, 2007. ``A unified approach to strategic traffic flow models and performance evaluation for traffic flow management''.
  • Transportation Research Board, Innovation in Air Traffic Management Workshop (TRB), Washington, DC, Jan. 21, 2007. ``Fundamental research in Traffic Flow Management''.
  • Optimization and Software in Air Traffic Management Tutorial Session, part of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}, San Diego, CA, December 12, 2006. ``Linear Eulerian model of En-Route air traffic flow''; ``The Berkeley Eulerian Toolbox Modeling''.
  • CTS-HYCON Workshop on nonlinear and hybrid control, La Sorbonne University, Paris, France, July 12, 2006. Invited by the Conference Chair, Professor Francoise Lamnabhi-Larrigue. "Hybrid control of distributed parameter systems''.
  • National Airspace System Performance Workshop. Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA, Mar. 16, 2006. ``Towards a scientific basis for determining En Route capacity''.
  • 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and control and European Control Conference. Sevilla, Spain, December 14, 2005 ``A viability approach to Hamilton-Jacobi equations: application to concave highway traffic flux functions''.
  • NSF CDATM Meeting. University of Illinois at Urbana Champain, Urbana, IL, December 1, 2005. ``Distributed Air Traffic Management: Control and Optimization''.
  • FAA-NEXTOR Meeting. UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, July 20, 2005. ``Strategic traffic flow models based on data-mining and system-identification techniques''.
  • American Control Conference. Portland, OR, June 10, 2005. ``Computation and control of solutions to the Burgers Equation using viabililty theory''.
  • C3UV Seminar, CCIT, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 18, 2005. ``Reachability and viability analysis for navigation in the presence of stereo vision errors''.
  • 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas, December 16, 2004. ``An approximation algorithm for scheduling aircraft with holding time''.
  • AIAA Conference on Guidance Control and Dynamics. Providence, RI, August 18, 2004. ``Optimal arrival traffic spacing via dynamic programming''.
  • American Control Conference. Boston, MA, July 2, 2004. ``Eulerian network model of Air Traffic Flow in congested areas''.
  • American Control Conference. Boston, MA, July 2, 2004. ``Adjoint based constrained control of Eulerian transportation networks: application to Air Traffic Control''.
  • 7th International Workshop Hybrid Systems Computation and Control. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 25, 2004. ``Network congestion alleviation using adjoint hybrid control: applications to highways''.
  • Workshop on Abstractions and Robustness, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 29, 2004. Invited by the Workshop Organizer, Professor Eric Feron. "PDE control using viability and reachability analysis".
  • 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Maui, Hawaii, December 12, 2003. ``MILP formulation and polynomial time algorithm for an aircraft scheduling problem''.
  • 2003 ETHZ-UCB-Stanford Workshop, Stanford, CA, December 5, 2003. ``MILP formulation and polynomial time algorithm for an aircraft scheduling problem''.
  • AIAA Conference on Guidance Control and Dynamics, Austin TX, August. 11, 2003. ``A differential game formulation of alert levels in ETMS data''.
  • American Control Conference. Denver, CO, June 6, 2003. ``Real-time control law synthesis for hybrid systems using MILP: application to congested airspace''.
  • 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Las Vegas, NV, December 13, 2002. ``Conditional viability for impulse differential games''.
  • 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Las Vegas, NV, December 13, 2002. ``Viability Kernels and Capture Basins of Sets under Differential Inclusions''.
  • AIAA Conference on Guidance Navigation and Control. Monterey, CA, August 8, 2002. ``A control theoretic predictive model for sector-based traffic flow''.
  • Journees sur les systemes hybrides, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France, June 27, 2002. Invited by the Conference Chair, Professor Jean-Pierre Aubin, Universite Paris Dauphine. "Computational methods for hybrid systems, application to the National Airspace System".
  • American Control Conference. Anchorage, AK, May 8, 2002. ``Delay predictive models of the National Airspace System using hybrid control theory''.
  • 5th International Workshop Hybrid Systems Computation and Control. Stanford, CA, March 25, 2002. ``Guaranteed overapproximations of unsafe sets for continuous and hybrid systems''.
  • 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Orlando, FL, December 5, 2001. ``A construction procedure using characteristics for viscosity solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation''.
  • 4th International Workshop Hybrid Systems Computation and Control. Rome, Italy, March 29, 2001. ``Validating a Hamilton-Jacobi approximation to hybrid system reachable sets''.

Press conferences

  • Mobile Millennium, UC Berkeley, CA , November 10, 2008, Held jointly with Nokia, Navteq and the California DOT
  • Safe Trip 21, Bay Bridge, Oakland, CA , June, 26, 2008, Held jointly with US DOT and the California DOT
  • Mobile Century, Union Landing, CA , February 8, 2008, Held jointly with Nokia and the California DOT

Press releases

  • University of California at Berkeley, ``Campus dedicates new state-of-the-arts CITRIS research headquarters,'' Mar 2, 2009
  • University of California at Berkeley, ``Dedication of new CITRIS headquarters marks new stage of innovation to help fuel economic growth,'' Feb. 27, 2009
  • Nokia, ``Nokia Research Center puts Mobile Millennium in gear to help reduce traffic congestion,'' Nov. 10, 2008
  • University of California at Berkeley,``UC Berkeley and Nokia turn mobile phones into traffic probes with launch of pilot traffic-monitoring software,'Nov. 6, 2008
  • ITS America,``ITS America announces finalists for the 2008 Best of ITS Awards,'' Oct. 30, 2008
  • U.S. Department of Transportation,``U.S. DOT partners with Caltrans to move California drivers one step closer to instant travel information and safety technologies,'' Jun. 25, 2008
  • Nokia,``Nokia and UC Berkeley capture real-time traffic information using GPS enabled mobile devices,'' Feb. 8, 2008
  • University of California at Berkeley,``Joint Nokia research project captures traffic data using GPS-enabled cell phones,'' Feb. 8, 2008

TV interviews (selected)

  • CBS's Smart Planet, ``Alex Bayen, Professor, Systems Engineerng, UC Berkeley,'' May 29, 2009, by Jason Pepper
  • NBC News, ``Tech Future in Good Hands at Cal,'' May 6, 2009
  • Cnet,``Nokia shows off real-time traffic application,'' Nov. 18, 2008
  • BBC News,``Tech that trumps traffic tangles,'' Nov. 18, 2008, by Jason Palmer
  • Cnet,``Using your cell phone's GPS to map traffic,'' Nov. 11, 2008, by Kara Tsuboi
  • KTVU,``UC Berkeley To Offer Free Cell Phone GPS Download,'' Nov. 10, 2008.
  • CBS News,``Cal Program Uses Cell Phones to Unjam Traffic,'' Nov. 10, 2008
  • ABC News,``UC Berkeley teams up with Nokia for traffic,'' Nov. 10, 2008
  • NBC News,``Gridlock Gadget: New Cell Phone Software to Help Drivers Avoid Traffic,'' Nov. 10, 2008
  • ABC News,``Real-time traffic information to your cell phone,'' Jun. 25, 2008
  • NBC News,``Bay Area traffic study kicks off,'' Jun. 25, 2008
  • Cnet,``Mobile Sensing-mini subs explore Sacramento,'' Jun. 20, 2008
  • Cnet,``Students get stuck in traffic for Nokia,'' Feb. 12, 2008
  • Cnet,``Nokia trials N95 as traffic monitor,'' Feb. 11, 2008
  • CBS News,``Cal, Nokia test GPS technology for traffic info,'' Feb. 8, 2008
  • ABC News,``Cell phones used to test Easy Bay traffic,'' Feb. 8, 2008
  • Cnet,``Nokia turns people into traffic sensors,'' Feb. 8, 2008
  • NBC News,``Researchers test GPS-cell phone navigation in South Bay,'' Feb. 8, 2008
  • Fox News,``Nokia and UC Berkeley capture real-time traffic information using GPS enabled mobile devices,'' Feb. 8, 2008

Radio interviews (selected)

  • Nature-podcast,``Phoning in Data,'' April 23, 2009, by Roberta Kwok
  • KQED/NPR, ``Dialing in on Traffic,'' Dec. 15, 2008, by David Gorn
  • National Public Radio,``Who's Calling? It's Your Traffic Report,'' Jan. 26, 2009, by David Gorn
  • KQED/NPR,``Reporter's Notes: Dialing in on Traffic,'' Dec. 12, 2008, by David Gorn
  • National Public Radio,``Cell Phones: a new commuter tool?,'' Feb. 11, 2008
  • KCBS,``Researchers road test GPS technology for traffic info,'' Feb. 8, 2008

Newspapers articles (selected)

  • The New York Times,``Smarter GPS to Let Cellphones Point the Way,'' May 3, 2009, by Roy Furchgott
  • Nature,``Phoning in Data,'' April 23, 2009, by Roberta Kwok
  • Die Welt,``Das Handy wird zum Navi der Zukunft,'' March 18, 2009
  • The Sacramento Bee,``Test program guides travelers by cell phone,'' Nov. 25, 2008, by Tony Bizjak
  • New Scientist,``Cellphone clusters give traffic jams away,'' Nov. 22, 2008
  • The New York Times,``Volunteers Sought for Real-Time Traffic Project,'' Nov. 18, 2008 by Roy Furchgott
  • The Earth Times,``Groundbreaking Debut of Traffic Probe Data at ITS World Congress,'' Nov. 17, 2008
  • Contra Costa Times,``Traffic study goes high tech,'' Nov. 13, 2008 by Erik Nelson
  • San Jose Mercury News,``UC Berkeley software turns cell phones into traffic trackers,'' Nov. 13, 2008, by Dennis Cuff
  • The Daily Californian,``Researchers' New GPS Software Could Get Drivers Out of a Jam,'' Nov. 10, 2008
  • San Francisco Chronicle,``Cell phones part of traffic monitoring network,'' Nov. 10, 2008
  • Forbes,``Nokia Research Center Pults Mobile Millennium in Gear to Help Reduce Traffic Congestion,'' Nov. 10, 2008
  • San Francisco Chronicle,``GPS Cell phones hooked up to monitor traffic,'' Nov. 9, 2008
  • San Francisco Chronicle,``Plan to avoid traffic jams using cell phones,'' Jun. 26, 2008
  • The Oakland Tribune,``Feds to help world's largest traffic tech test,'' Jun. 25, 2008
  • The Oakland Tribune,``Experiment uses phones to track I-880 traffic,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • San Jose Mercury News,``Researchers try tracking traffic using cell phone GPS,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • Los Angeles Times,``Using cell phones to beat traffic?,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • Tri Valley Herald,``New GPS phone system tested on Interstate 880,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • San Mateo County Times,``GPS-based system would track traffic with phones,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • San Francisco Chronicle,``Cell phone test to monitor I-880 traffic flow,'' Feb. 5, 2008

Other media outlets

  • Reuters,``CITRIS: An Incubator of Green Tech Innovation,'' May 6, 2009
  • Venture Beat,``UC Berkeley's CITRIS lab: a haven for startups trying to solve big problems'', May 6, 2009, by Dean Takahashi
  • Nokia Open Innovation Newsletter,``Open Threads,'' April 2009
  • IEEE,``Intelligent Transportation Systems, Cell Phone Enhancements Improve Mass Transit,'' Feb. 23, 2009
  • IEEE Spectrum,``Cell Phones for Science,'' February 2009, by Prachi Patel-Predd
  • The Industry Standard,``Researchers use your cellphone to provide real-time traffic information,'' Jan. 27, 2009, by Sindya Bhanoo
  • The Journal,``Comment: Information must be protected,'' Dec. 18, 2008, by Maitland Hyslop
  • Excelsior,``Ring, trafico al habla,'' Dec. 10, 2008, by Carlos Fernandez de Lara
  • CITRIS Report,``Taming Traffic with Your Phone: The Mobile Millennium Project'', Dec. 08, 2008, by Gordy Slack
  • NewsBITS,``Berkeley Researchers' High Profile at the 15th annual ITS World Congress in NYC,'' Winter 2008, by Ann Brody-Guy
  • Cal Neighbors,``Bay Area drivers can use cell phones to avoid traffic snarls,'' Fall 2008
  • CEE @ Berkeley Connections,``Mobile Millennium Poised to Expand Bay Area's Reputation as High-tech leader,'' Fall 2008,
  • ARS Technica,``Nokia collaboration may keep you out of traffic jams,'' Nov. 23, 2008, by David Chartier
  • Venture Beat,``Nokia researchers show off the mobile experiences of the future,'' Nov. 20, 2008, by Dean Takahashi
  • US News \& World Report,``Volunteer to Have Your Driving Habits Tracked, Help Reduce Traffic,'' Nov. 19, 2008
  • Daily News Online,``NAVTEQ dials into new traffic monitoring data,'' Nov. 18, 2008
  • Wi-Fi Cell Phones,``Mobile Millennium- GPS Traffic Mapping,'' Nov. 18, 2008
  • This Week in Consumer Electronics -TWICE,``Navteq/Nokia Offer Advanced Traffic Updates,'' Nov. 17, 2008, by Amy Gilroy
  • GNT,``Mobile Millennium: Nokia teste l'info trafic par mobile GPS,'' Nov. 14, 2008, by C. Bruno
  • SDA Asia,``Nokia Research Center puts Mobile Millennium to Curb Traffic Congestion,'' Nov. 13, 2008
  • ZD Net,``Nokia working to reduce traffic congestion,'' Nov. 12, 2008, by Matthew Miller
  • Newsfactor.com,``New Software Turns Cell Phones into Traffic Trackers,'' Nov. 12, 2008
  • MSNBC, ``GPS'li telefonar trafik bilgisi olusturacak,'' Nov. 12, 2008
  • Mobinaute,``Nokia utilisera ses mobiles GPS pour eviter les embouteillages,'' Nov. 12, 2008
  • The Independent,``Flu outbreaks and traffic jams,'' Nov. 12, 2008
  • Electricpig,``Nokia launches next-gen traffic studies,'' Nov. 12, 2008
  • American Public Media,``Software empowers cell phones to fight traffic congestion,'' Nov. 11, 2008
  • TMCnet,``Nokia Intro Mobile Millennium to Help Reduce Roadway Traffic Congestion,'' Nov. 11, 2008
  • MIT Technology Review,``Tracking Traffic with Cell Phones: A new project collects traffic data from GPS-enabled cell phones,'' Nov. 11, 2008
  • IT Pro,``Nokia studies traffic with GPS-enabled mobiles,'' Nov. 11, 2008
  • Computer Zeitung,``Pilotprojekt erprobt GPS-basierte Verkehrshcarichten in Echtzeit,'' Nov. 11, 2008
  • GPS Business News,``Nokia, NAVTEQ in large scale trial for traffic information generated by GPS-phones,'' Nov. 11, 2008
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  • L'Atelier,``Les mobiles GPS recreent le trafic routier de San Francisco,'' Nov. 10, 2008
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  • Computer World,``Project turns GPS phones into traffic reporters,'' Nov. 10, 2008
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  • Media Post,``Mobile Program Sends Real-Time Traffic Info,'' Nov. 10, 2008
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  • Pocket-lint,``Nokia Announces Mobile Millennium Project,'' Nov. 10, 2008
  • SFist,``UC Berkeley releases cell phone program to help ease traffic,'' Nov. 10, 2008
  • Slash Gear,``Nokia Mobile Millennium GPS traffic monitoring project seeks volunteers,'' Nov. 10, 2008
  • Symbian Freak,``Large scale public pilot to gather and analyse traffic information using GPS-enabled mobile devices,'' Nov. 10, 2008
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  • PC Magazine,``Cell Phones Linked to Track Real-Time Traffic,'' Nov. 10, 2008
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  • Engadget,``Mobile Millennium Project promises to track traffic with cellphones,'' Nov. 7, 2008
  • PC World,``Camera Phones and GPS Are for SMBs Too, Says Startup,'' Nov. 7, 2008
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  • Slashdot,``Project Turns GPS Phones into Traffic Reporters,'' Nov. 7, 2008
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  • Zimbio,``Mobile Millennium project promises to track traffic with cellphones,'' Nov. 7, 2008
  • GPS World,``NorCal GPS Cell Phone Traffic Probe Project Gets Underway,'' Nov. 7, 2008
  • CITRIS News,``UC Berkeley and Nokia turn mobile phones into traffic probes with launch of pilot traffic-monitoring software,'' Nov. 6, 2008
  • PhysOrg.com,``UC Berkeley, Nokia turn mobile phones into traffic probes,'' Nov. 6, 2008
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  • MIT Technology Review,``New GPS Software,'' May 16, 2008
  • PR Web,``Mobile Sensing- Lagrangian Sensor project receives Clean Tech Innovation prize,'' Apr. 22, 2008
  • GPS Daily,``Nokia and UC Berkeley capture real-time traffic information,'' Feb. 12, 2008
  • TechGadgets.in,``N95 phone gives real-time traffic info, thanks to Nokia and UC researchers,'' Feb. 12, 2008
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  • Largest Companies,``Nokia \& UC Berkeley capture real-time traffic info using GPS-enabled cell phones,'' Feb. 11, 2008
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  • PhysOrg,``New research project captures traffic data using GPS-enable cell phones,'' Feb. 10, 2008
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  • TechShout.com,``Nokia and UC Berkeley experts build technology to offer real time traffic information,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • eFluxMedia,``Nokia and UC Berkeley tests GPS phones as traffic sensors,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • Engadget,``Nokia trial turns N95s into traffic sensing tools,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • Gizmodo,``Nokia GPS phones to fight the traffic plague,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • Symbian Web Blog,``Interesting GPS experiment by Nokia and UC Berkeley,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • eNews 2.0,``Nokia tests a traffic-tracking service,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • Inside Bay Area,``Area study tracks cell phones on highways to monitor traffic,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • Inside Bay Area,``GPS phone system tested by students,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • TradingMarkets.com,``Researchers test real-time traffic,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • Nokia Phone Blog,``Nokia conducts real time traffic test,'' Feb. 9, 2008
  • MobileTor.com,``Nokia, UC researchers capture real-time traffic info using N95 handset,'' Feb. 9, 2008
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  • Reuters,``Nokia and UC Berkeley capture real-time traffic information using GPS enabled mobile devices,'' Feb. 8, 2008
  • The Tech Generation Daily,``Nokia tracks traffic info with gang of GPS feeds,'' Feb. 8, 2008
  • My Digital Life,``Trend of having GPS enabled cell phones for traffic monitoring,'' Feb. 8, 2008
  • IntoMobile,``Mobile Century uses Nokia N95 as mobile GPS sensor,'' Feb. 8, 2008
  • Inside Bay Area,``Profs test tracking GPS phone to gauge traffic,'' Feb. 8, 2008
  • Wireless and Mobile News,``UCB \& Nokia Test GPS for Traffic Flow and Monitoring,'' Feb. 8, 2008
  • MobilEdia,``Nokia and UC Berkeley Monitors Highway Traffic,'' Feb. 8, 2008
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