After the grand visions of the 1950s, the science of intelligent systems fragmented into a variety of separate fields. Although the narrow focus of each field has enabled technical progress, it has also restricted the scope of problems and prevented cross-fertilization. The aim of the Center for Intelligent Systems is to relaunch the field as an integrated scientific discipline with solid foundations and ambitious, interdisciplinary applications. The Center will bring together researchers from artificial intelligence, computer vision, speech recognition, robotics, control theory, operations research, neuroscience, adaptive systems, information retrieval, data mining, computational statistics, and game theory. The Center will focus on developing a unified theoretical foundation for intelligent systems, building on the tremendous advances made in various individual disciplines in the last decade. New computational tools will be built and disseminated, and a new generation of researchers will be trained to solve large-scale problems -- problems whose solution will benefit the economy and society.

FACULTY RESEARCHERS

Director, Stuart Russell (AI; machine learning; real-time decision-making; algorithms)

Venkat Anantharam (CS theory; communications, control, robotics, and biosystems)
Ruzena Bajcsy, CITRIS Director (robotics)
Brian Barsky (computer graphics; computer-aided geometric design & modeling)
Peter Bartlett (statistics; machine learning)
Peter Bickel (statistics)
Eric Brewer (systems)
John Canny (HCI)
Laurent El Ghaoui (convex optimization, decision-making under uncertainty, robust estimation, identification and control)
Ron Fearing (control, robotics, and biosystems)
Jerome Feldman (AI; natural language learning)
David Forsyth (vision; geometric modeling)
Robert Full (integrative biology and robotics)
Ken Goldberg (robotics and industrial automation)
Marti Hearst (information retrieval, user interfaces, computational linguistics)
Joseph Hellerstein (database management)
Michael Jordan (machine learning; probabilistic inference)
Jitendra Malik (vision; robotics; geometric modeling)
Nelson Morgan (signal processing and pattern recognition for speech analysis and recognition)
James O'Brien (computer graphics and animation)
Yuval Peres (statistics)
Kris Pister (control, robotics, and biosystems)
John Rice (statistics)
Shankar Sastry, EECS Chair (control, robotics, and biosystems)
Alistair Sinclair (theory; design & analysis of algorithms)
Bernd Sturmfels (computational geometry)
Pravin Varaiya (communications, control; networks; power systems; transportation)
Robert Wilensky (AI; natural language processing)
Lotfi Zadeh (AI; soft computing; knowledge-based systems)

UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT PARTNERSHIP

Our model of center membership is designed to facilitate academic research and industry partnership so that university researchers can benefit from industrial experience, and industry can more rapidly transfer new technologies. For a relatively modest investment, Center membership provides involvement in several large interdisciplinary research efforts in the intelligent systems area, as well as access to faculty and graduate students. The critical-mass combination of UC Berkeley researchers and leading companies has the potential of making truly significant advances possible. All member companies participate in semiannual research reviews and member day conferences. Each participating Member Company may send a senior employee to work at the Center, on a regular basis, as a visiting researcher. Each Participating Member Company is allocated one seat on the CIS Board of Advisors. Participating Member Companies may support the Center through product, equipment, or technology donations in addition to an annual membership fee of $150K. Associate Member Companies have the opportunity of informational involvement with the faculty and student researchers at the annual contribution rate of $75K. This includes access to all research result presentations and reports, and attendance at research reviews and member day conferences.