4.18.2006
"Worldchanging.com"
Greenscanner
UCI's Bill Tomlinson developed GreenScanner, a public database of consumer opinions about the environmental accountability of over 600,000 products.
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4.17.2006
"Orange County Register"
World of Multiplayer Games Converges at UCI
The world of massively multiplayer online games has become so huge it's taking a team of anthropologists, scholars and industry folks to figure out the future of this genre of computer games.

On Thursday, UC Irvine's Institute of Software Research hosts the conference called "MASSIVE, The Future of Networked Multiplayer Games."

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4.16.2006
"Yahoo! News"
Robots embedded at school in quest to bond with humans
It is an everyday scene at one US nursery school, where robots are immersed among children to find out what it takes for machines and humans to develop long-term relationships. Fumihide Tanaka, part of Sony Intelligence Dynamics Laboratories, has been working on the project jointly with the University of California at San Diego, led by Machine Perception Laboratory director Javier Movellan.

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4.13.2006
"SoCalTech.com"
Podcast with Wes Hatfield and Rick Lathrop
CODA Genomics' founders and UCI professors Wes Hatfield and Rick Lathrop are interviewed by Frank Peters about their technology and resulting spinoff company.
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4.7.2006
"Nanotechnology Now"
When Things Get Small
Production company Not Too Serious Labs lives up to its name with their latest production, When Things Get Small. Covering - among other things - the science of magnetic nanodots (1) in the lab (2) of UCSD physicist Dr. Ivan Schuller (who is himself a wacky fellow) When Things Get Small asks - then answers - the question "What could a stadium-sized bowl of peanuts, a magic tennis ball, shrinking elephants, and a crazed hockey player possibly teach us about nanoscience?"?Entertaining and informative, in a "make me laugh but teach me something" way. When Things Get Small has been favorably compared to the Food Network's Good Eats program.
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4.6.2006
"The Globe and Mail (Toronto)"
Just a moment while I type this in
Consumers can type in a product's UPC (Universal Product Code) number and get information about it posted by others with a device developed by Bill Tomlinson, UC Irvine associate professor and Calit2 academic participant. GreenScanner will say which company makes a product, as well as other items produced by that manufacturer.
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4.5.2006
"Technology Review"
Converting Light Wavelengths within Fiber
Fiber-optic networks zip billions of bits of information across the world every day, using light with a wavelength of 1,550 nanometers, which is well suited for snaking through kilometers of glassy fiber. And, because telecommunications uses this wavelength, many important devices, such as light sources, amplifiers, switches, and light detectors, are fine-tuned for that wavelength. The research group, led by Stojan Radic, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD), showed that wavelengths of light between 1,541 and 1,560 nanometers could be used to generate visible green light with wavelengths between 515 and 585 nanometers -- all within the confines of an optical fiber. Their results were presented last month at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference in Anaheim, CA.
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4.3.2006
"KPBS San Diego"
Calit2 monitors future horizon for newest technologies
It's kind of difficult to sum up exactly what Calit2 is. It may best be described as a group of scientists and artists who like coming up with cutting edge ideas and testing them out, without the publish or perish pressure of academia or working for profit-driven companies. Dr. Smarr says the institute helps make theories into reality, that aim to address the problems facing California in areas like medicine, transportation and the environment.


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3.31.2006
"HPC Wire"
Moores UCSD Cancer Center Creates Bioinformatics Center
"I am delighted to have been asked to lead this endeavor at the Cancer Center," Schork said. "It is the beginning of an effort that will grow to serve the entire UCSD campus." According to Schork, analyzing this information and making it useful is a challenge, but UCSD is perfectly positioned to become a national leader in this effort. "UCSD is home to a number of sophisticated resources that carry out computational or statistical analysis and other kinds of quantitative research. We just need to bring our varied and dispersed talents together," he said. "For example, UCSD recently launched the Information Theory and Applications Center, based at Calit2. Its faculty members are developing methodologies to understand how signals can be received and sent using wireless technologies, and are using sophisticated computational techniques to decipher the signals. Those people have extensive math and statistical skills that, if applied to a problem in, for example, medical imaging or genomics could result in major advances to the field."
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3.30.2006
"Physorg.com"
Engineers Demonstrate Revolutionary Photonic Technology
 Researchers from Calit2's new photonics lab at UCSD "have demonstrated a way to build on the dominant infrastructure rather than replace it -- by "translating" optical signals between the current infrared standard and a wide range of other bands of light."

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3.24.2006
"HPC Wire"
Accelerating Data Transport Over Hybrid Networks

As partners in the National Science Foundation's OptIPuter project, EVL and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) are proving it is economical to have point-to-point connections once you have the right endpoint technologies in place. "We are propagating a scalable, economical networking solution that puts high-performance networking resources into the control of individual scientists," said Tom DeFanti, EVL co-director and OptIPuter program co-PI. "Lambda services offer scientists a networking means to solve problems that are cost prohibitive to do any other way."
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3.21.2006
"NAMC Newswire"
UC San Diego to Celebrate Exemplary Faculty at March 21 Faculty Excellence Awards Ceremony

3.20.2006
"Connect Newsletter"
UCSD Computer Scientist Works With Researchers to Understand How Cancer Genome Evolve
Three years ago, Ben Raphael knew very little about cancer biology. Then a team of cancer researchers approached his research supervisor at UCSD, Computer Science and Engineering professor Pavel Pevzner, about developing new computational techniques for understanding the rearrangement of genes in tumors. "When working in bioinformatics, understanding the biology is a huge advantage," recalls Raphael, a fourth-year postdoctoral researcher in the Jacobs School of Engineering who earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from UCSD. "I work in a field that requires collaboration between biologists and computer scientists, and it helps to have knowledge of both disciplines."
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3.19.2006
"Orange County Register"
Local Security Cameras Cut Crime and Costs
Expanding use of surveillance cameras cuts crime and costs, but there are privacy issues to consider.
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3.14.2006
"Science Grid This Week"
iGrid 2005 Receives CENIC Networking Innovation Award
A demonstration of more than four dozen scientific applications running on very-high-bandwidth optical networks-many of them linking different countries on different continents-has won the CENIC 2006 Innovations in Networking Award for Experimental/Developmental Applications.
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3.13.2006
"Orange County Business Journal"
Funding, UCI Ties
Coda Genomics Inc., a biotechnology company based in Irvine, said last week it closed a second round of funding worth about $1.6 million. The company was started in 2004 to commercialize National Science Federation-supported DNA assembly and protein expression technology from the laboratories of two University of California, Irvine professors—Richard Lathrop and G. Wesley Hatfield.


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3.13.2006
"Electronicstalk"
Mission Learns US Wireless Sensor Secrets
The state is investing heavily in innovative new institutes and commercialisation strategies to secure a lead in key emerging technologies. The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), which opened a week before the mission arrived, was hugely impressive on two fronts: its $400 (GBP 225) million budget and its determined approach to interdisciplinary futuristic research. 'Artists, performers and computer games designers will work alongside engineers and computer scientists', says Paul Garner of BT. 'I believe that exciting new opportunities for WSNs in pervasive computing will emerge through this combination of creatives and technologists'.
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3.13.2006
"This Week @ UCSD"
Calit2 Researchers Deploy Disaster Communications Network at San Diego Mardi Gras Festivities
Mardi Gras is supposed to be a little wild, and maybe even a little out of control. But no one wants the celebrations to get out of hand to the point that revelers are danger. So last month, a team of nearly 30 researchers from Calit2 joined forces with San Diego law enforcement to make sure San Diegans and out-of-town visitors had a safe Mardi Gras in the Gaslamp Quarter.
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3.8.2006
"Nanotechnology Now"
"When Things Get Small" things get funny on UCTV
Calit2 director Larry Smarr hails the new UCSD-TV documentary "When Things Get Small," co-produced in conjunction with Calit2 and "starring" UCSD physicist Ivan Schuller.
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3.8.2006
"AZoNano News"
UCTV to Broadcast Entertaining Nanoscience Program on TV and Internet
In a report on an upcoming documentary about nanotechnology, the new service reports that Calit2 co-funded the program "When Things Get Small," which was produced by UCSD-TV.
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3.3.2006
"Orange County Register"
Sciencedude Blog
Money donated to UCI by Joan Irvine Smith will be used by researchers William Tang, Abraham Lee and James Fallon in a collaborative project at UCI's Reeve-Irvine Research Center. Tang and Lee are Calit2 academic affiliates.
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3.3.2006
"Science"
Two Cultures
In its Newsmakers section, the publication report on a new documentary featuring UCSD physics professor Ivan Schuller, following his quest to build the world's smallest magnet -- and educate audiences about nanoscience in the process. Schuller is a former layer leader for Materials and Devices in the UCSD Division of Calit2.
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3.1.2006
"Dallas Morning News"
Drivers may be slow to accept safer cars
Writer Terry Maxon reports on various research efforts to make cars safer, including Calit2 participant Mohan Trivedi's project to develop "smart" air bags that would be much more safely if deployed just before the accident. The UCSD electrical engineering professor is paraphrased as saying "any safety system has to monitor what the driver is doing – paying attention, looking away from the road or nodding off."
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3.1.2006
"Science Grid This Week"
The Future of Digital Data
In a report on the "Expanding Universe of Digital Data Collections" symposium at the 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Katie Yurkewicz quotes SDSC director Francine Berman saying: "We used to look at compute only and ask what you can do in your local environment and what you need to go outside for. Now we need to look at data like that too. One of the things we see across many communities is the desire to put together different kinds of data to answer bigger questions."
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3.1.2006
"KFMB Channel 8"
Da Vinci Decoded
The San Diego CBS affiliate's Shawn Styles reports on the work of UCSD engineering alumnus Maurizio Seracini, who recently spoke at Calit2 on his use of new imaging techniques to look below the surface of Leonardo Da Vinci artworks. [Real player is required to view]
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3.1.2006
"Campus Technology"
New Leadership for Network Research at UCSD
In its roundup of "Campus Briefs," the magazine reports that "computer scientist Amin Vahdat has taken the reins as director of the University of California-San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS). Vahdat is also an academic participant in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2)."
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2.28.2006
"Red Herring"
Coda Genomics Snags $1.6M
Biotech developer CODA Genomics, which was incubated in the CBRL lab at UCI's Calit2 Building, closed on a second round of funding worth $1.6 million, led by an angel investor group, Life Science Angels.
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2.24.2006
"New York Times"
A Page Turner, Real-Life Echoes Included
Matt Richtel reports on the life of venture capitalist Tom Perkins, and quotes von Liebig Center executive director Paul Kedrosky, who says venture capitalists are "all looking for influence beyond being a glorified banker."
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2.24.2006
"HPCwire"
National LambdaRail Completes Infrastructure Deployment
The news service reports that the National LambdaRail (NLR), a consortium of leading U.S. research universities and private sector technology companies, has announced that it has completed deployment of a nationwide advanced optical, Ethernet and IP networking network infrastructure, already being used by research projects including the Calit2-led OptIPuter and CAMERA projects.
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2.23.2006
"Photonics Spectra"
Zeiss and UCI Develop Research Center
Carl Zeiss SMT Inc., a semiconductor and nanotechnology instrument manufacturer in Thornwood, N.Y., and California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at the University of California, Irvine, (UCI) have established a center for nanotechnology and biotechnology research and advanced materials development.
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2.22.2006
"CTWatch Quarterly"
PRAGMA: Example of Grass-Roots Grid Promoting Collaborative e-Science Teams
Calit2 participants Peter Arzberger and Phil Papadopoulos co-author a report on the Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) that promotes interaction and collaboration in grid middleware among cyberinfrastructure researchers in the U.S. and Pacific Rim nations.
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2.21.2006
"Lightwave"
National LambdaRail completes nationwide network infrastructure deployment
National LambdaRail completes nationwide network infrastructure deployment
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2.13.2006
"San Diego Business Journal"
UCSD Database May Aid Startups
The weekly publication's Katie Weeks reports that "researchers at UC San Diego are creating a massive database that scientists worldwide will use to identify new genes in microscopic marine life." The report refers to a partnership led by Calit2 and J. Craig Venter Institute, and quotes Calit2 participant Peter Arzberger, director of Life Science Initiatives at UCSD.
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2.13.2006
"This Week @UCSD"
Information Theory and Applications Center Inaugurated in Calit2
"UCSD has created a new research center to explore and apply the basic theory that underpins the digital revolution," reports the weekly e-zine of the universty.
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2.9.2006
"New York Times"
A Real-Life Mystery: The Hunt for the Lost Leonardo
Ian Fisher reports on the hunt for the Battle of Anghiari mural in Florence -- Leonardo Da Vinci's lost masterpiece -- by Calit2 researcher Maurizio Seracini.
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2.8.2006
"Connect Newsletter"
Calit2 Cyberinfrastructure Project Could Spawn Economic Development, Including New Start-Ups

The $24.5-million, seven-year grant was given by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in January to the UC San Diego Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) to build a state-of-the-art computational resource and develop software tools that will decipher the genetic code of microbial communities in oceans around the world.
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2.8.2006
"TV Technology"
Tech Retreat 2006: Display's the Thing
Robin Berger reports that Calit2's Tom DeFanti will present "International Developments in Digital Cinema" at a TV-technology meeting in late February. The article notes that Calit2 has installed one of the first Sony SRX-R110 4K projectors, and "successfully transmitted 4K digital video over Gigabit IP optical-fiber networks between San Diego and Tokyo last September."
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2.2.2006
"The Courier Mail"
New Blog for High-Fliers
Later this year 20 pigeons will take to the skies above San Jose, Calif., each carrying a GPS receiver, air pollution sensors and a basic cellphone. They will measure levels of pollutants they encounter, and beam back their findings as text messages to a blog in real time. The research is a project of Beatriz da Costa, UCI Calit2 academic participant. Article also appeared in:Manchester Evening News, Reuters, New Scientist, The South African Star, Stuff Magazine,Slashdot.org, vnunet.com, Telecommunications Industry News ,
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1.31.2006
"Yahoo! Finance"
SGI Highlights Key Sales, Groundbreaking New Products in Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2006
In a news release over PRNewswire, Silicon Graphics reports that Calit2 "purchased SGI visualization and storage technology for the new Richard C. Atkinson Hall to provide research scientists, media artists, educators, and entertainers with the most cutting-edge visualization environment available today."
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1.27.2006
"HPCwire"
The OptIPuter Gets Real
In his lead story for the weekly online publication, Michael Feldman, editor of HPCwire, asks: "What do you get when you combine one of the most advanced computational infrastructures in the world with one of the most renowned genomic research organizations? We're about to find out. Larry Smarr recently spoke with HPCwire about how OptIPuter technology is poised to transform scientific research and discovery."
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1.27.2006
"HPCwire"
Optical Race
NCSA research editor Kathleen Ricker reports on the Electronic Visualization Lab partnering with TRECC to deploy new visualization and other user interface technologies at the TRECC facility in West Chicago as part of the Calit2-led OptIPuter project. She notes that EVL's Jason Leigh is leading the project to make TRECC and OptIPuter node, and quotes Leigh saying, "they should be extremely display-rich environments, with the ability to wallpaper a high-definition video stream and high-resolution visualization content, and to be able to work collaboratively with this data over distance."

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1.26.2006
"R&D Magazine"
Photonic Switches Put the Internet on Steroids
Richard Gaughan reports on the coming revolution in optical networking, and quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr on the challenges ahead: “There’s something deadly wrong with the infrastructure when the natural rate of the PC is so much higher than the bandwidth interconnecting them.”
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1.26.2006
"News-Gazette Online"
Formal dedication of new center held; NCSA marking 20 years
Greg Kline reports on the dedication of a new National Center for Supercomputing Applications Building at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He notes that "also on hand was Larry Smarr, who needed supercomputing power for his research as a cosmology professor, helped spearhead the NCSA's founding at the UI and ended up as its first director. He now lives in California [where he directs Calit2]."
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1.23.2006
"GRIDtoday"
CAMERA Project First Persistent App for Smarr's OptIPuter
Report on the joint venture led by Calit2 director Larry Smarr and genome pioneer Craig Venter in marine microbial genomics and the role of grid computing and new cyberinfrastructure tools.
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1.23.2006
"This Week @UCSD"
UCSD Partners with Venter Institute to Decipher Genetic Code of Marine Microbes
Writer Ioana Patringenaru reports on the news conference announcing a joint venture between Calit2, UCSD and J. Craig Venter Institute to develop cyberinfrastructure for studies in marine microbial genomics.
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1.23.2006
"Information Week"
First The Body, Now The Oceans
Chappell Brown of EETimes reports that "after helping crack the human genome, computer technology, data mining, and optical networking will be put to work to give biologists worldwide a window into ocean life." Calit2 director Larry Smarr is quoted. 
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1.19.2006
"HPCwire"
UCSD, Venter Institute Launch Metagenomics Project
Calit2 is leading a joint venture with J. Craig Venter Institute in marine microbial genomics, and the high-performance computing news service included this news release in its weekly e-zine as well as its main website.
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1.18.2006
"Chronicle of Higher Education"
Project for Collaborative Research on Marine Genomics Could Be Model for Online Teamwork in Other Fields
Technology writer Vincent Kiernan reports on a joint venture led by Calit2 director Larry Smarr and Craig Venter, who led the first successful effort to decode the human genome. The CAMERA project will develop and deploy cyberinfrastructure to support marine microbial genomics research.
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1.18.2006
"San Diego Union-Tribune"
UCSD scientists join massive ocean study
Science reporter Bruce Lieberman reports on the announcement of a joint venture between UCSD and J. Craig Venter Institute to develop infrastructure and tools for marine microbial genomics research. Project leader (and Calit2 director) Larry Smarr is quoted as saying, "This is an ocean planet. . . . To understand ourselves – after all, we're basically water – we really have to understand our own planet."
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1.18.2006
"North County Times"
UCSD venture seeks to map 'planet's life system' of marine microbes
"This is just raw discovery," Craig Venter is quoted saying at a news conference to announce a joint venture to develop cyberinfrastructure for marine microbial genomics research. Calit2 director Larry Smarr, who is leading the joint venture between UCSD and J. Craig Venter Institute, is also quoted.
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1.18.2006
"KPBS Radio"
Deep ocean exploration seeks to uncover past
Host Tom Fudge reports that local scientists are taking the plunge to uncover some of the ocean's deepest mysteries with hopes of shedding light on the evolution of life on Earth. His guest in the studio: Larry Smarr, director of Calit2 , whose group "is providing new information and research on marine ecosystems."  Click on the "Listen Here" icon.
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1.17.2006
"Orange County Register"
The Place to go in OC for Tech + Art Today
 "5 'til 12" by Knifeandfork (a group show that includes artists Susan Huang and Brian House) opened at the Beall Center this week.
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1.16.2006
"New York Times"
Sharing Broadband to Increase Speed
John Markoff reports that "Mushroom Networks, which was started at the University of California, San Diego," has built a prototype of "simple wireless systems that make it possible for groups of neighbors to share their D.S.L. or cable Internet connections." Company founder and Calit2 participant Rene Cruz is quoted. Mushroom's co-founder, Cahit Akin, is a researcher in Calit2.

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1.16.2006
"Information Week"
You Call Yourself a Manager? Well, You're Not Alone
Managers now make up 10 percent of the U.S. IT workforce, up from less than 7 percent in 2000, and manager jobs outnumber those in categories such as IT support specialist and network or data-communications administrator. Business-process outsourcing of functions such as human resources and accounting may actually increase IT-management payrolls, since some companies assign an IT manager to help administer these types of outsourced services, according to Ken Kraemer, UC Irvine information sciences professor and Calit2 academic affiliate.
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1.16.2006
"Computerworld"
Private Office or Cubicle for Developers: The Debate Goes on
Which is more productive: a closed office or an open cubicle? Walt Scacchi, acting director and a research scientist at UCI's Institute for Software Research, and a Calit2 affiliated researcher, comments.
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1.12.2006
"Irvine World News"
Engaging Kids to Appreciate Habitat Restoration
EcoRaft, a project that a merges the arts (drama, visual art) with computing, ecology and education, was created by Bill Tomlinson and F. Lynn Carpenter, UCI professors and Calit2 academic participants.
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1.10.2006
"CONNECT Newsletter"
Renowned UCSD Professor Opens Neuroscience Lab at Calit2
The weekly e-zine reports that "one of the nation's leading neuroscientists," Robert Hecht-Nielsen, has established a lab in Calit2 at UCSD "to explore and expand upon a radical new theory to explain how humans think."
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1.10.2006
"USA Today"
FBI Checking Prints in Death Row Cases
The FBI is reviewing the cases of all state and federal prisoners scheduled for execution to determine whether bureau fingerprint examiners made errors that led to death sentences. The move comes amid increased attention to fingerprint analysis. Fingerprints, long thought to be unique to individuals, have been used in U.S. courts since the early 1900s. But critics such as Simon Cole, a professor of criminology at the University of California, Irvine, say fingerprinting is not backed by sufficient scientific research.
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1.8.2006
"New York Times"
In Love With Reality Truly, Madly, Virtually
In an article on new-media efforts, museum curator Michael Rush reports on the successes of CAVE and other virtual-reality environments that are attracting a new generation of artists. Calit2 visualization leader Tom DeFanti, a co-PI on the OptIPuter and original developer of CAVE at University of Illinois.
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1.1.2006
"CONNECT Newsletter"
Calit2 Cyberinfrastructure Project Could Spawn Economic Development, Including New Start-Ups
Editor Andrea Siedsma reports on the recent linkup between Calit2 and the Venter Institute to form an initiative to build the cyberinfrastructure needed to explore new data in marine microbial genomics.
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1.1.2006
"ABC Good Morning America"
Schools Become High Tech
Parenting correspondent Ann Pleshette Murphy reports on the wave of high tech innovation in classrooms, including experiments at UCSD with the robot Asobo to help very young children learn. Machine Perception Lab director Javier Movellan, based in Atkinson Hall, was interviewed. (Flash video can be viewed from the news site.)
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1.1.2006
"China Radio International Online"
U.S. researchers use advanced technology to locate tomb of Genghis Khan
The English language version of CRI runs a story from Xinhua News.
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1.1.2006
"FreshNews.com"
Ortiva Wireless Named to SiliconIndia's List of Top Ten Wireless Technology Companies
The online news service notes that the company started by Calit2 participant Sujit Dey, Ortiva Wireless, has been named to SiliconIndia magazine's list of Top Ten Technology Companies founded and managed by Indians within the U.S.
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1.1.2006
"HPCwire"
UC San Diego Researchers Visualize Cultural Patterns
The high-performance networking news service reports on the award of 330,000 hours of time on DOE supercomputers for the Calit2-based Software Studies Initiative.
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