6.10.2005
"Orange County Register"
UCI Breakthrough May Mean Faster Computer Chips
Minuscule technology successfully tested at UCI could hasten the day when computer speeds reach about three times faster than today.
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6.10.2005
"Forbes"
Faster Cell Phones, Computers on the Horizon
California scientists used nanotechnology to create the world's fastest method for transmitting data in cell phones and computers. A team from the University of California, Irvine used carbon nanotubes instead of copper or aluminum wires to achieve processing speeds of gigahertz -- one billion times the hertz, the basic unit of measuring such signals, the school said Friday.
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6.10.2005
"Sacramento Business Journal"
Nanotubes Faster than Copper in Chips
Carbon nanotubes can route electrical signals on a computer chip faster than traditional copper or aluminum wires, at speeds of up to 10 GHz, according to experiments reported Thursday by scientists at the University of California, Irvine.
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6.10.2005
"SoCalTech.com"
Researchers Say Nanotubes Boost Semiconductor Speeds
Scientists at UC Irvine said this week that they have created the world's fastest method for transmitting information in cell phones and computers.
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6.8.2005
"Unstrung"
UCSD Touts 3D Video App
The wireless technology news service reportst that UCSD computer scientists (and Calit2 participants) Bill Griswold and Neil McCurdy introduced a new technique for mixing images and video feeds from mobile cameras in the field to provide remote viewers with a virtual window into a physical environment. The application constructs a 3D virtual environment dynamically out of the live video streams.
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6.7.2005
"New York Times"
A Better Robot, With Help From Roaches
UC Irvine ACE graduate student and Calit2 research fellow Garnet Hertz is using a robotic device to transport cockroaches.
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6.7.2005
"United Press International"
Cockroach-Driven Robot Tests Intelligence
Garnet Hertz, a Calit2 graduate research fellow, is building a cockroach-driven robotic vehicle to test ideas about learning and intelligence.
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6.2.2005
"New University"
UC Patents Generate Millions Annually
Research in the University of California system is able to generate significant amounts of revenue as a result of the UC’s ownership of patents, especially if the research can be transformed into economically viable products and technologies.

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6.2.2005
"Irvine World News"
UCI Students Win Annual Competition
A team of UCI students, in conjunction with Calit2 affiliated faculty Goran Matijasevic and G.P. Li, won an annual business competition with their plan for a company focused on power amplifiers for wireless communications.
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5.27.2005
"ZDnet Between the Lines"
Larry Smarr: Pumping the Net up for gigabyte images
Columnist Dan Farber reports that "Larry Smarr believes that the emerging Internet information grid is going to be far more pervasive than the electric power grid is today. He is the Harry E. Gruber Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD, and director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and in 1985 founded the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana." This blog offers a downloadable MP3 of Farber's audio interview with Smarr after the "Future in Review" conference.

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5.26.2005
"Science Grid This Week"
Computer Scientists, Geoscientists Meet in San Diego
In a report picked up by Science Grid This Week, Katie Yurkewicz writes about  the Geosciences Network (GEON) Third Annual Meeting, held May 5-6 in San Diego and hosted by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD. She quotes GEON project director and SDSC/Calit2 Synthesis Center director Chaitan Baru as saying that "GEON's basic focus is on data integration. Sub-disciplines of geoscience work with very different types of data, but they all study the same structures. GEON works to provide access to tools and data that will allow earth scientists to efficiently answer questions that cut across several disciplines."
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5.26.2005
"CTWatch Quarterly"
The Cyberinfrastructure Backplane: The Jump to Light Speed
In the May 2005 edition of Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch Quarterly, Calit2 director Larry Smarr and SDSC senior researcher Phil Papadopoulos guest edited this issue and focused on "the state of one and 10 Gbps long-haul, optical circuits supporting the research community." Authors in this issue include Tom deFanti and Maxine Brown, co-PI and project manager respectively on the Smarr-led OptIPuter project. The print version can be downloaded in PDF format at this site.

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5.25.2005
"ZDnet"
The future of the enterprise and grids
In his Between the Lines blog, technology columnist Dan Farber reports from the "Future in Review" conference, and quotes from Calit2 director Larry Smarr about the problem with grids and the shared Internet infrastructure. "We all live in little data caves with teeny keyholes looking out into the Net," Smarr said. "How can we go and get things when it’s built on an unpredictable, shared Internet?" The article mentions the Smarr-led OptIPuter project.
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5.24.2005
"Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine"
UCSD Researchers Test Wireless Technologies in Simulated Medical Disaster Response Drill
Writer Robert Hoskins reports on the involvement of Calit2 and UCSD researchers in a recent emergency-response drill in San Diego. "The first-responder community has welcomed the UCSD team and worked closely with the university researchers and their corporate partners," he reports, and quotes Calit2 division director Ramesh Rao as saying that engineers and first responders "are even starting to speak a similar language."
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5.23.2005
"GRIDtoday"
Larry Smarr on Future of Grid, Cyberinfrastructure
Editor Derrick Harris interviewed Calit2 director Larry Smarr for this Q&A about, "among other things, the effects LambdaGrids will have on Grid computing, the timeline for a legitimate cyberinfrastructure in the United States and what he calls the "Third Era" for campus infrastructure."
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5.16.2005
"Telephony World"
UCSD Researchers Test Wireless Technologies in Simulated Medical Disaster Response Drill
The online news service reports on the participation by researchers from Calit2 the Jacobs School of Engineering and Calit2 as part of the WIISARD project, in a disaster drill that allowed them to showcase several new wireless-based technologies. UCSD division dierctor Ramesh Rao and layer leader Bill Griswold were among those quoted.

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5.13.2005
"Discovery Channel"
Tsunamis Lay Await in Lake Tahoe
Larry O'Hanlon reports on research by Calit2-affiliated ocean researcher Graham Kent of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Kent's study of Lake Tahoe showed that "faults hidden beneath the waves of one of the world's deepest lakes may occasionally trigger large quakes that could set 30-foot tsunamis sloshing mercilessly back and forth." Kent manages the Calit2-funded Visualization Center at Scripps.
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5.13.2005
"O.C. Register"
The sounds of light and movement
OP_ERA, at UCI's Beall Center at first glance looks like a large, dark gallery room containing a three-walled box lined with strands of light. The exhibit is really a giant, walk-in music box.

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5.11.2005
"IEEE Design and Test"
The Future Depends on Innovation
Journal editor and Calit2 participant Rajesh Gupta commissioned this oral history of  QUALCOMM founder Irwin Jacobs that appears in the May-June 2005 issue of the IEEE journal. A companion video of Jacobs' interview with Kenneth Wagner was produced by Calit2 and the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering in conjunction with the IEEE History Center and IEEE Computer Society. To watch the Real media clip, click here. Length: 1:22:07 [Real player required]
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5.11.2005
"Sun News Today"
A Close Look at Grey Matter
As part of Sun Microsystems' video series, Chris LeGrand reports from San Diego on Sun's role in brain research -- through Java workstations powering the UCSD Biowall. Calit2 participant and School of Medicine professor Mark Ellisman is interviewed. [Real player required]
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5.6.2005
"United Press International"
Wireless World: Bomb detection wirelessly
Technology writer Gene Koprowski reports that "a project underway at the University of California, San Diego, enables paramedics to tap into networks from a Personal Digital Assistant or PDA and essentially navigate the disaster scene by zooming and panning with the networked cameras, without moving the cameras." He quotes Calit2 layer leader Mohan Trivedi as saying that the technology -- called the Digital Tele-Viewer -- was funded by the National Science Foundation for "dealing with IT for first-responders, and we will be initiating another effort with the (Department of Defense) and DHS." [This link is to the UPI story as carried by the Washington Times.]
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5.5.2005
"International Herald Tribune"
Ultrawideband takes on untangling the house
Picking up a New York Times article by John Markoff, the Paris-based newspaper notes that ECE professor and Calit2 participant Larry Milstein remains concerned about interference problems with so-called ultra-wide-band wireless technology.

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5.5.2005
"Discovery Channel"
Virtual Music Box Makes Sound Visual
A room-sized music box uses human-computer interface technology to create a virtual environment where visitors see sound at UC Irvine's Beall Center for Art & Technology.
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5.4.2005
"New York Times"
Bandwidth Advance Hints at Future Beyond Wi-Fi
Technology reporter John Markoff reports that "one barrier that has held back the much-hyped convergence of the computer and consumer electronics industries has been the tangle of wires that is needed to connect the cascade of home video, audio, Internet and game gadgets. Now the drive to unwire the living room is about to get a push." He quotes Calit2 UCSD participant Larry Milstein as being still concerned with interference from so-called ultra wideband  (UWB) technology. 

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5.4.2005
"Digital Divide Network"
Technology for Social Inclusion: An Interview with Mark Warschauer
Warschauer, a Calit2 academic participant, researches the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) in schools; the impact of ICT on language and literacy practices; and the relationship of ICT to institutional reform, democracy, and social development.
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5.2.2005
"Asbury Park Press"
Web Extra: Workers Bombarded with Stimuli
The average employee's attention span is, at most, 12 minutes. The average worker switches to a different task every three minutes and gets interrupted every two minutes, says Gloria Mark, a professor at UC Irvine and a Calit2 academic participant, who studies the effects of multitasking on workers. She reported her findings to Ergonomics Today.

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5.2.2005
"UCSD Connect Newsletter"
Researcher's Hub: Frieder Seible
Editor Andrea Siedsma interviewed Jacobs School of Engineering dean Frieder Seible for this profile of the structural engineer who also founded the Charles Lee Powell Structural Research Laboratories at UCSD. Seible is quoted as saying, “our facilities are so unique because nobody else can do the kind of work we are doing. We are known in places like Europe and Asia but very few people know about us in San Diego.” Seible is co-chair of Calit2's Governing Board.
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5.1.2005
"North County Times"
UCSD researchers working to make highways safer
Writer Ruth Marvin Webster reports that "in today's fast-paced world, it's not easy for drivers to keep their attention on the road, but technology being developed at UC San Diego's Jacob School of Engineering may change that." She interviewed electrical engineering professor Mohan Trivedi -- who leads Calit2's intelligent transportation and telematics group at UCSD -- for the Sunday feature about his efforts to create a new "driver ecology."
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4.29.2005
"Voice of San Diego"
Distinguished ladies and fellows
In its Daily Buzz column, the online news service reports that "five faculty members at the University of California, San Diego have been named fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences," including Jack Wolf, a professor of magnetics and Calit2 participant.
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4.29.2005
"San Diego Daily Transcript"
Five at UCSD named fellows of American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Writer Erik Pisor reports on the election of Calit2 participant and Jacobs School professor Jack Wolf as one of five UCSD faculty named as fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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4.28.2005
"Wi-Fi Planet"
Faster Wi-Fi Handoff Arrives?
Writer Ed Sutherland interviewed Calit2 participant and UCSD computer science professor Stefan Savage for this article on a new method called SyncScan for accelerating how long it takes for a Wi-Fi device to hand off a signal to a neighboring Wi-Fi access point.
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4.28.2005
"Bioscience Technology"
Computational Optimization of Genes
A spin-off company of the University of California, Irvine, will offer a new technology developed for Computer Optimized DNA Assembly (CODA) and protein expression optimization. The technology was developed at UCI's Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB), a Calit2 academic partner.
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4.27.2005
"Peoria (ILL) Journal Star"
Finalists for Peoria Prize for Creativity
Three finalists -- "The Virtual Raft Project" among them -- are vying for the $10,000 Peoria Prize for Creativity to be announced April 29 at the Discovery Forum 2005 at the Peoria (Ill.) Civic Center. Nominees must demonstrate a collaboration between art and science in their project. The Virtual Raft,  an interactive art piece that uses computers, is the brainchild of UCI assisstant professor and Calit2 academic participant Bill Tomlinson.
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4.25.2005
"Barrons"
Plugged In
In his weekly column, writer Eric Savitz notes "a recent patent filing by two scientists at the University of California-San Diego for a method to dramatically improve the handoff time from one Wi-Fi access point to another. Stefan Savage , a UCSD engineering professor, and graduate student Ishwar Ramani claim they have solved the problem by having Wi-Fi software prepare for an eventual switch to a new access point by constantly seeking and tracking all of the accessible alternative access points. The result is far faster switching from one access point to the other: fast enough to make wireless VoIP a viable technology." Savage is an academic participant in Calit2.

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4.21.2005
"OC Register"
UCI Honored
UC Irvine hydrologist and Calit2 division council member Soroosh Sorooshian will receive NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal for pioneering work in using satellite data to better understand how much rain falls around the globe and for helping the government to make more accurate predictions about floods and droughts. The medal – the highest award NASA gives non-government employees – will be bestowed Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
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4.19.2005
"Orange County Register"
UCI Research Briefs
Chemist Ken Shea and bioengineer Abe Lee have received $80,000 from the Henry Nicholas Foundation to search for ways to synthesize plastic antibodies that can be used for such things as diagnosing disease and sensing pollution in ecosystems.
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4.19.2005
"Daily Pilot"
UCI professors share in research cash prizes
Four UC Irvine faculty projects will share the first Nicholas Foundation Prize for Cross-Disciplinary Research, a spokesman for the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology announced late last week.
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4.18.2005
"San Diego Union-Tribune"
Street smarts
Personal technology reporter Jonathan Sidener interviews Jacobs School electrical and computer engineering professor Mohan Trivedi and profiles a series of reseach projects in his Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles (LISA) -- research at UCSD that "monitors road conditions and behavior to increase driver awareness and safety."Trivedi leads Calit2's Intelligent Transportation and Telematics group at UCSD.

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4.18.2005
"Chemical & Engineering News"
Laser Sensor Detects TNT Vapor
Reporter Celia Henry reports on a device developed at MIT that is based on a lasing semiconducting polyber and has unprecedented sensitivity. The article quotes Calit2 researcher and UCSD chemistry professor Michael Sailor, an expert in chemical sensing, as saying that "the impact of this work should be quite broad in scope."

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4.18.2005
"UCSD Connect Newsletter"
UCSD Researchers Enhance High-Speed Internet Access Via 802.11
The San Diego technology e-newsletter reports on SyncScan, a new method devised by Jacobs School computer science and engineering professor Stefan Savage and grad student Ishwar Ramani to speed up the handoff of Wi-Fi coverage from one access point to the next.

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4.15.2005
"San Diego Union-Tribune"
People to watch: Stefan Savage
In a Q&A with technology reporter Bruce Bigelow, CSE professor and Calit2 participant Stefan Savage says "the job of a professor is a combination of storytelling, cat herding and panhandling. I need to raise money, make sure that everyone is making progress and ultimately convince people to see the world a particular way. It's this last element – which is at the core of teaching and research – that is both the hardest and the most rewarding."

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4.15.2005
"RF Globalnet"
Faster Handoff Between Wi-Fi Networks Promises Near-Seamless 802.11 Roaming
The wireless technology news service reports that "Jacobs School of Engineering professor Stefan Savage and graduate student Ishwar Ramani have a patent pending on the basic invention behind SyncScan, a process to achieve practical, fast handoff for 802.11 infrastructure networks." Savage is an active academic participant in Calit2. This article also appeared in PhysOrg.com, Innovations Report (Germany), and FreshNews.com, Wireless Developer Network, ScienceBlog, and Telephony World.
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4.15.2005
"Voice of San Diego"
21st annual UCSD Connect Life Sciences and High Tech Financial Forum on Thursday
Guest columnist Neil Senturia reports on the 21st annual UCSD Connect Life Sciences and High Tech Financial Forum, and highlights the presentation of Calit2 director Larry Smarr. "He encouraged the University of California, San Diego to support entrepreneurship and particularly 'the mandate to innovate.' [Smarr] compared the United States to some of the Scandinavian countries and also to China, Japan and Korea, and the truth is that the United States is not the leader in innovation at this point. In part, he argued this is because of extreme government regulations, particularly in telecommunications. He also said that dorm rooms are ahead of our family rooms since broadband is ubiquitous on the college campus," writes Senturia.
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4.14.2005
"VNUnet"
US researchers turbocharge Wi-Fi roaming
Writer Robert Jaques reports that SyncScan technology developed by UCSD computer scientist Stefan Savage and grad student Ishwar Ramani promises a "dramatic increase in 802.11 access speeds." Savage is an active academic participant in Calit2. This article also appeared in Forbes.com, IT Week (Netherlands),  Computing (UK) and What PC? (UK).
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4.14.2005
"TechWorld (UK)"
New invention means smoother, faster Wi-Fi roaming
Writer Peter Judge reports on a UCSD invention called SyncScan that would speed up the handoff from one Wi-Fi access point to the next. He notes that the "software upgrade [could be] a huge boon to VoIP handsets," because users could use their VoIP phones on the move without being confined to a single access point's footprint. CSE professor Stefan Savage -- an active participant in Calit2 --  is quoted. 
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4.8.2005
"Indianapolis Star"
Attention, please. Distracted workers often fail to produce
The average employee's attention span is, at most, 12 minutes. The average worker switches to a different task every three minutes and gets interrupted every two minutes, according to Gloria Mark, a UCI professor and Calit2 academic affiliate, who studies the effects of multitasking on workers.
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4.5.2005
"Technology Review"
Wireless Lookout: Fast Hand-off for Wi-Fi Networks
In the Information Technology section of the MIT-based publication's April edition, Monye Baker reports that "Ishwar Ramani and Stefan Savage of the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new approach, called SyncScan, that allows faster handoffs" when moving from one Wi-Fi network to another. "SyncScan shrinks the handoff delay without the need for hardware upgrades or changes to IEEE 802.11, the most widely deployed standard for wireless networks," notes the magazine. "Though SyncScan is still not perfectly synchronized, it promises to greatly improve the quality, convenience, and value of communication in Wi-Fi networks."

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4.5.2005
"Barron's"
Plugged In: Eureka
In his weekly column, writer Eric Savitz notes "a recent patent filing by two scientists at the University of California-San Diego for a method to dramatically improve the handoff time from one Wi-Fi access point to another. Stefan Savage , a UCSD engineering professor, and graduate student Ishwar Ramani claim they have solved the problem by having Wi-Fi software prepare for an eventual switch to a new access point by constantly seeking and tracking all of the accessible alternative access points. The result is far faster switching from one access point to the other: fast enough to make wireless VoIP a viable technology." Savage is an academic participant in Calit2.
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4.4.2005
"III-Vs Review"
DOD, UCSD, MOCVD, III-Vs, MQW and
The online edition of the advanced semiconductor magazine reports that Calit2 participant and UCSD electrical and computer engineering chair Paul Yu "is talking with several vendors before making a final selection now that the funding is approved. He is also looking into possibly purchasing a one- or two-year-old reactor to maximise on the budget." That purchase is of an MOCVD system for depositing thin-film layers of materials, metals and oxides on tomorrow’s semiconductors, and the reactor will be located in Calit2's new building on the UCSD campus.  
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4.1.2005
"HPCwire"
DoD, Cal(IT)2 Fund $500,000 Investment in Chip Tech at UCSD
The high-performance computing e-newsletter and website report that Calit2 at UCSD and the Pentagon's DURIP program will "jointly fund acquisition of a state-of-the-art system for depositing thin-film layers of materials, metals and oxides on tomorrow's semiconductors." Principal investigator Paul Yu, chair of the Jacobs School's Electrical and Computer Engineering department, is quoted.

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4.1.2005
"KFMB-TV Channel 8 (CBS)"
Car Viruses
UCSD professor Mohan Trivedi explains the potential dangers of viruses affecting automobiles given the increasing number of computer processors used in cars. The report includes footage of Trivedi's Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles (LISA). Length: 2:39  [Realplayer required]
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3.30.2005
"Riverside Press Enterprise"
Big Game Hunting
A newspaper columnist visits a middle-school "college week" event and ends up learning a few things about where video game design curricula are offered.
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3.29.2005
"San Diego Business Journal"
UCSD To Acquire Microchip Technology
Technology writer Brad Graves reports that the "Army Research Office and a University of California research institute are jointly buying a complex piece of hardware used in the manufacture of microchips...The $500,000 collection of hardware will occupy a specialized lab at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology building, which the university is in the process of finishing."
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3.29.2005
"PhysOrg.com"
DoD, Calit2 Fund $500,000 Investment in Advanced Chip Technology
The online news service reports that the "U.S. Department of Defense and the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) will jointly fund acquisition of a state-of-the-art system for depositing thin-film layers of materials, metals and oxides on tomorrow’s semiconductors. The system will initially supply optical devices to a DoD-funded, small-business research project on ‘optical tagging’ – using optics to identify and track friends or enemies on the battlefield."
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3.25.2005
"Daily Pilot"
UCI gets fueled up for World's Fair
UC Irvine's National Fuel Cell Research Center, a Calit2 academic partner, gets to show off its research in fuel-cell technology through September at the 2005 World's Fair in Japan.
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3.25.2005
"Small Times (Ann Arbor, Mich.)"
Lookback: Career-Hopping Engineer Leaves Lasting Imprint
Bill Tang, UCI professor of biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, and the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, is also a Calit2 academic affiliate. He came to UCI after a stint at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a long and varied engineering career.
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3.24.2005
"Santa Cruz Sentinel"
UCSC adds new track for computer science majors: Game design
Computer gaming is a $7 billion/year industry and a focus of Calit2 research. Courses in computer gaming, which have been part of the curriculum for five years at UCI, are now being added at other universites. UC Santa Cruz is adding a track in game design as an available option for computer science students.
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3.23.2005
"Santa Monica Mirror"
Officials Talk Traffic With Visiting Experts
Will Recker, UCI professor of civil and environmental engineering, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, and Calit2 academic affiliate, recently made a presentation to the Santa Monica (CA) Cty Council and Planning Commission. The city is investigating improvements in traffic methodology.
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3.21.2005
"Newsweek/MSNBC"
Life Isn't Just as You Want It? Remix It!
In a report on last week's ETech Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, Newsweek senior editor Steven Levy writes that the "weirdness bar was set pretty high... Even so, a lot of the techie presenters cleared it with room to spare. These certainly included the University of California, San Diego, professor who spoke of unleashing 'feral robotic dogs' on contaminated landfill sites." He was referencing the work of Calit2 academic participant Natalie Jeremijenko, a UCSD professor of Visual Arts.

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3.17.2005
"Irvine World News"
UCI People
Ramesh Jain, professor of embedded and experiential systems at Georgia Institute of Technology, has been named the first Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine. he is also a Calit2 academic affiliate.

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3.16.2005
"San Diego Union-Tribune"
Sniffing out pollution
Writer Mike Lee reports on a research project at UCSD in which toy robotic dogs are equipment with "smell" technology to sniff out and converge on a pollution hot spot. The sniffing technology was developed by Calit2 researcher and UCSD visual arts professor Natalie Jeremijenko "to draw attention to the consequences of a throw-away society and the environmental problems of modern life."[For more on this subject, read the Calit2 feature article "What Toys Can Teach Us".]
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3.14.2005
"Information Week"
Seismic Shift
Writer Aaron Ricadela reports on the current state of the U.S. supercomputing program, and notes that funding for cyberinfrastructure appears hamstrung. Calit2 director Larry Smarr is quoted as saying that NSF's cyberinfrastructure program "was originally talked about as having a $1 billion budget," while NSF's allotment for cyberinfrastructure today is about half that amount. The article also quotes San Diego Supercomputer Center director Fran Berman as saying that through the supercomputing centers, the NSF's cyberinfrastructure program "will fund computing research that could help users deal with data coming from sources as varied as tiny wireless sensors and mammoth supercomputers."
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3.12.2005
"San Diego Union-Tribune"
Spotlight on Nanotechnology: The rapidly advancing science is forecast to transform society
Science writer Bruce Lieberman reports on the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, which began March 13 in San Diego, and highlighted the work of two Calit2-affiliated researchers: Materials and Devices layer leader Ivan Schuller, who's working on an "experimental sensor, supported by the Defense Department, [which] would combine a series of magnetic, infrared, chemical and biological detectors. These nano-instruments would send their findings to another part of the sensor that then transmits the information by wireless communication to a central command center"; and biochemist Michael Sailor, who has developed "smart dust" and is quoted as saying that "nanotechnology is something that nature's been doing for millennia." 

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3.11.2005
"Chronicle of Higher Education"
Missing the Boat, or Penny-Wise Caution?
An emerging Internet technology, called Internet Protocol version 6, allows 80,000 trillion trillion times more Internet addresses than the current system, but.has been ignored by most American colleges so far. UC San Diego and Calit2 have implemented the technology in certain portions of their networks. 
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3.3.2005
"New York Times"
GeoWall Project Expands the Window Into Earth Science
Writer Henry Fountain reports on the GeoWall project that is bringing 3D display technology to classrooms, and profiles the work of University of Illinois researcher Jason Leigh, co-PI on the OptIPuter project led by Calit2 director Larry Smarr. Leigh was a developer of the GeoWall, "an inexpensive system that uses a PC with an advanced graphics card and digital projectors to present the geophysical world to dozens or even hundreds of students at a time."
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3.2.2005
"FreshNews.com"
Professor-Turned-CEO Pitches New Wireless Data Transfer Technology
The southern California technology news service reports on the decision by UCSD electrical and computer engineering professor Sujit Dey to set up a company called Ortiva Wireless, to develop data-shaping technologies for high-speed Internet browsing.

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3.1.2005
"Light Reading"
OFC Talks to Include Mars Laser
In a preview of the upcoming Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference in Anaheim, CA, starting March 6, the technology news service reports that Calit2 director Larry Smarr will deliver a speech about the OptIPuter -- "an experimental system architecture that tightly couples computing, storage, visualization and networking to exploit the rapidly expanding capabilities of fiber optic networks."
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2.24.2005
"Irvine World News"
'Bots Jam at UCI
At the Beall Center for Art and Technology at UC Irvine, advanced robots are exhibited in a series of space-age kinetic sound sculptures. They are complemented by a string-like, colorful light display on the gallery floor that echoes the rhythmic pulse of sound robots in action.

The group, known as LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Roots), is a Brooklyn-based artist collective that specializes in electronic music. Recognizing that music and computer programming are both languages made from codes, LEMUR easily spans many disciplines.

LEMUR combines sculpture, electronic engineering, the latest, most up-to-date workings of telecommunications with music and computers. Also, artificial intelligence is a significant component, the ability of a computer program to "learn" from newly encountered data. Nevertheless, LEMUR’s purpose is music first, technology second.
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2.23.2005
"Science Daily"
Mapping Human Genetic Variation Across Populations
Reporting on a study first published in Science magazine, based on sequencing of 71 individuals' genomes by Perlegen Sciences, Inc., the online news service notes that "scientists at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego, and the UC Berkeley-affiliated International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) helped analyze the set of over 100 million genotypes from the over 1.5 million SNPs sequenced in each sample by Perlegen."

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2.22.2005
"Daily Pilot"
UCI professor earns national award
UC Irvine's Susan Bryant, dean of the university's School of Biological Sciences and a member of the Calit2 governing board, was elected as a 2005 Assn. for Women in Science fellow. She received the award Feb. 20 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C..
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2.21.2005
"San Diego Union-Tribune"
Bioterror experts propose early-warning technologies
Science writer Bruce Lieberman reports on an AAAS briefing about efforts to develop bioterrorism technologies to detect and then respond to possible attacks. He notes that UCSD and SDSU are working on such technologies, including "smart dust" (partially funded by Calit2) and command centers to "to test technologies emergency workers will undoubtedly need as they respond to a terror attack. Equipped with computer banks, wall-size video screens and video Internet connections, these 'visualization centers' are designed to provide real-time information on numerous aspects of a disaster," a reference to vizcenters in both the Jacobs School and Calit2's facility at Scripps.
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2.20.2005
"Los Angeles Times"
Art, Science Mix at UCI
At the Beall Center for Art and Technology at UC Irvine, engineers, computer scientists and digital artists create art that is ultramodern, innovative — and sometimes noisy. With its array of interactive, performance- and installation-based exhibits, the Beall Center is well on its way to accomplishing its mission of redefining the gallery experience.
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2.19.2005
"Innovations Report"
Map of human genetic variation across populations may promise improved disease treatments
The German technology news service reports on the "mapping of key genetic signposts across three human populations [that] could help speed efforts to pinpoint disease-related DNA variations, and ultimately may promise more effective, individualized treatments." It notes that UCSD computer scientist Eleazar Eskin -- a Calit2 researcher -- co-authored the report published in Science magazine.
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2.18.2005
"Science Magazine"
Whole-Genome Patterns of Common DNA Variation in Three Human Populations
Calit2 researcher Eleazar Eskin co-authored a new study mapping genetic variation in three human populations. The UCSD computer scientist cooperated on the study with scientists from Perlegen Sciences, Inc., and the UC Berkeley-affiliated International Computer Science Institute.
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2.18.2005
"Reuters/Los Angeles Times"
Genome map offers first look at human differences
Writer Maggie Fox reports that the first published map of human genetic differences offers a major step toward truly personalized medicine. She notes that to make the map, scientists at the company Perlegen Sciences "worked with researchers at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California San Diego, and the University of California at Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute." They scanned 71 Americans of African, European and Asian descent, picking out 1.58 million of the most common single-letter variations in the genetic code. This article also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and other publications.
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2.18.2005
"New Scientist"
Genetic variation map may promise tailored drugs
Writer Will Knight reports that "a new map of genetic 'signposts' that reveal general variations in the human genome could lead to more effective, genetically-tailored drugs. A study of 1.58 million genetic markers across 71 individuals of different genetic heritage showed that the markers correspond to general genetic variation... But the researchers - from Perlegen Sciences, the Computer Science Institute in California and the University of California, San Diego, all in the US - stress that this does not mean people with different ancestral history can be divided into discrete groups on a genetic basis." Jacobs School computer scientist and Calit2 researcher Eleazar Eskin co-authored the study that appeared in the Feb. 18 issue of Science magazine.
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2.17.2005
"San Diego Union-Tribune"
Wireless technology to the rescue
In an Op-Ed article, Calit2 UCSD division director Ramesh Rao argues that wireless technology could have saved thousands of lives in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami, and explains how the institute's RESCUE is developing technologies that could improve communications in future disasters.
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1.31.2005
"GRIDtoday"
UCSD Expands Cyberinfrastructure Program to China, Thailand
In its special-features section, the online news service highlights the expansion of the Pacific Rim Undergraduate Research Experiences (PRIME) program, which will double the number of UCSD students working on research projects related to cyberinfrastructure, with students deployed to Japan, Taiwan, China, Thailand and Australia. The principal investigator on the NSF-funded project is Gabriele Wienhausen, Provost of Sixth College and leader of Calit2's Education activities at UCSD, with support from Peter Arzberger, director of UCSD's Life Sciences Initiative and deputy leader of Calit2's Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine layer on the campus.

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1.27.2005
"Irvine World News"
Technology Transfers Debated
The approach a university takes in licensing transactions, also called "technology transfers," and the approach a corporation takes were compared and contrasted during "The Art of Research and Technology Transfer," a multi-lecture/panel-discussion conference held at the University Club on the UC Irvine campus. The event was sponsored by OCTANe @ UCI, the Orange County Technology Action Network, a Calit2 partner.
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1.24.2005
"Chicago Sun-Times"
Major players put Chicago on map for grid computing
In a sidebar titled "Central location makes city right site for grid work," business reporter Howard Wolinsky reports on the emergence of Chicago as a center of grid computing research and rollouts. He quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr in his capacity as founding director of the National Center of Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, as writing that "Chicago is an artifact of the emergence of infrastructure." The quote is from the new book Grid 2 -- edited by Argonne's Ian Foster, a grid computing pioneer.
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1.24.2005
"Orange County Business Journal"
Broadcom: Hope for Unrealized Ambitions
UC Irvine hopes chipmaker Broadcom Corp.'s move to the University Research Park adjacent to UCI will facilitate interaction and spur cooperation between the high-tech company and the research element of the university.
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1.23.2005
"Daily Pilot"
Technology Plays Tunes
LEMUR exhibit (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots) is open at UC Irvine's Beall Center for Art & Technology Jan.14-March 19. The exhibit showcases robotic instruments that can play themselves.
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1.21.2005
"OC Weekly"
Over the Cliffs; LEMUR Follows the Crowd
LEMUR sounded like it would be AWESOME: the League of Electronic Musical Robots would be performing at UC Irvine’s Beall Center for Art and Technology, which almost always has rocking robotics; even when installations are Pong-era blips, they’re ironically and nostalgically so. And robots make everybody happy, especially if they’re robot butlers or talking cars. But mostly robot butlers.
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1.19.2005
"TelecomFlash"
Honolulu: Broadband's Playground
In a report from Honolulu, Steve McClelland reports on efforts to develop "the Pacific’s very first 'Broadband Playground.'" He quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr as calling optical networks "change agents" for science. Writes McClelland: "Smarr says scientists in Tokyo will be able to routinely swap their 300 Terabytes of climatological data with the counterparts at the Max Planck Institute in Germany... Smarr sees HDTV sea bed sensors remotely monitored by optical cable but warns scientists will need to be flexibly minded to take full advantage of the new systems. [He] compares the situation with that of 1985 when only 100 people in the U.S. were able to capitalize on the power of newly-developed supercomputers. Flexibility of mind to capitalize on global-scale networking is what Smarr seems to be saying is needed."
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1.14.2005
"San Diego Metropolitan"
Daily Business Report
"And you thought your cable at home was fast," is the kicker on a story about UCSD announcing that it is now connected via a production 10 gigabit connection to CENIC's CalREN backbone network. The daily columnsquotes Chancellor Marye Anne Fox as saying, "While we have other, faster connections for specialized research projects on campus, the new 10 gigabit Ethernet connection enables every campus member to access the full power of broadband and access the global Internet and Internet2 community at large." The article goes on to note that "other institutions at UCSD that are participating in the high-performance campus network include the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology."
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1.13.2005
"FreshNews.com"
Production 10 Gigabit Ethernet Campus Link to CalREN
The San Diego technology e-newsletter and website report that UCSD upgraded from a one gigabit connections to the CalREN high-performance backbone network for California universities, to "the first production 10 gigabit Ethernet campus connection in the United States...  This new link provides unprecedented wide area network capacity to UCSD's students, faculty and staff." Calit2 participated in the deployment of the new Internet bandwidth, which will also support several networking projects such as the Calit2-led OptIPuter.
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1.13.2005
"SoCalTech.com"
UCSD, CENIC Wire 10G Network
The online news service reports that UCSD and CENIC "have connected the first 10 Gigabit Ethernet broadband network into CENIC's high performance backbone network, CalREN. The connection gives UCSD students and staff the highest performance, production 10G campus connection in the U.S."  
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1.12.2005
"RedNova"
Phoning Home From the Ocean Floor Via Computer
The online science news service reports on the LOOKING ocean observatory project led by UCSD and the University of Washington. Calit² director Larry Smarr is co-PI on the project. [This article first appeared in Sea Technology Magazine , a subscription-only publication.]
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1.11.2005
"San Diego Union-Tribune"
SDSU center will help guide tsunami relief workers
Science reporter Bruce Lieberman reports on efforts at SDSU's visualization center to provide detailed satellite maps and imaging to help relief agencies in the tsunami-struck Indian Ocean region. He quotes the center's co-director, professor Eric Frost, who has led the collaboration between UCSD and SDSU researchers within Calit².
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1.10.2005
"Orange County Business Journal"
Executive Summary: Top Stories
Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. signed a blockbuster $183 million lease with The Irvine Company for 685,000 square feet of space in eight buildings at University Research Park near the University of California, Irvine.
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1.6.2005
"IGN Insider"
Robots Like Music Too
LEMUR (The League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots) is bringing their unique, mechanically inclined brand of sound to UC Irvine's Beall Center for Art and Technology.
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1.5.2005
"Orange County Register"
Broadcom move a boon to UCI
Chip maker Broadcom Corp.'s move to the University Research Park, adjacent to UC Irvine, will lead to more collaboration with the university, including the schools of engineering and computer science, and Calit².
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1.4.2005
"Technology Review"
What Lies Beneath
The crustal plates that lie beneath miles of ocean are in constant movement, shifting imperceptibly every second. But the seismologists who track them have had to rely on an investigative schedule dictated by the calendar, rather than the clock. John Orcutt, deputy director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Calit2 participant, is quoted as saying "now we can create a data grid of sensors that all forward their data to the system... The tricky part is to interact intelligently with the sensors. That’s something that hasn't been done much. We're using it for seismology, but it's applicable to meteorology, oceanography -- all sorts of fields in which you're using instruments remotely." 

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1.4.2005
"Orange County Business Journal"
Broadcom Moving to Research Park
Irvine chipmaker Broadcom has struck a deal to move its headquarters to the city's University Research Park, taking 700,000 square feet in eight buildings. Broadcom plans to move from its current Irvine Spectrum base in two years. The Irvine Company, which owns University Research Park, plans to put up buildings for the chipmaker.
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1.1.2005
"Cabling Business Magazine"
The Ultimate Playground for IT Imagineers
Extensive cabling technology was needed to supply the flexible communications infrastructure required in the Calit2 Irvine building. This article details the design and technology used in the new 120,000-square-foot building. 
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1.1.2005
"OC Weekly"
Basic Programming: OP_ERA Beginning to See the Light
A review of the OP_ERA exhibit currently on display at UCI's Beall Center.
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1.1.2005
"MSNBC"
Robo Roach: Bionic Bug Takes Control of the Driver's Seat
Calit2 and ACE graduate student Garnet Hertz uses hissing cockroaches to navigate robotic vehicles.
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