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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