4.2.2013
"La Jolla Patch"
Calit2 Gets New Name For Big Supporter -- Qualcomm Institute
The La Jolla Patch reports on Qualcomm Institute's new name.
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3.30.2013
"Lab Manager"
Viewing Research Bandwidth Through a New Prism
The online news service reprints a Calit2 news release about the NSF-funded Prism@UCSD project, including quotes from UCSD Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla, Calit2 Director Larry Smarr, and PI Phil Papadopoulos.
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3.27.2013
"UT San Diego"
Apps, DeMaio, Lambos and more
A letter to the editor of UT San Diego points out "What an incredible, interesting article that Robin Abcarian wrote" in the Los Angeles Times... and "Kudos to Ganz Chockalingam and his programmers at UC San Diego" for creating the Best Time to Cross the Border app for iPhone and Android devices.
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3.26.2013
"Los Angeles Times"
Smartphone app speeds up border crossings
Columnist Robin Abcarian reports on the genesis and value of Calit2's Best Time to Cross the Border app for iPhone and Android devices.
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3.21.2013
"PhysOrg"
New network being built to support transfer of big data
The physics-oriented web service picked up the Calit2 news release announcing the development of a Prism@UCSD network to boost the capacity of bandwidth between major science institutes and departments on the UCSD campus.
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2.27.2013
"Houston Press"
Reality Bites: Robot Combat League
Art Attack writer Pete Vonder Haar reviews the first episode of Robot Combat League, which features Calit2's Saura Naderi as one of 12 'robo-tech' engineers.
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2.27.2013
"Azorobotics"
Battles between Humanoid Robots Hosted on Syfy
Azorobotics, which bills itself as covering "the a to z of robotics," covers the television debut of Calit2's Saura Naderi, who is featured in a new Syfy series called Robot Combat League.
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1.7.2013
"Gizmag.com"
UCSD's robot baby Diego-san appears on video for the first time
Jason Falconer reports that UCSD professor Javier Movellan, from the Calit2-based Machine Perception Laboratory, has completed work with robotics makers on a robot one-year-old with a wide range of facial expressions to mimic humans while learning.
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1.6.2013
"UT San Diego"
Genius Grant Winner Blazing a New Trail
Arts critic Jim Chute reports on Claire Chase, MacArthur Award winning arts entrepreneur and co-founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble, which will perform works by Calit2 composer in residence Rand Steiger Jan. 11 at Calit2.
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1.3.2013
"TMCnet"
Community Embraces Effort to Build 3D Virtual Cell
The University of California at San Diego issued the following news release: Scientists from the University of California, San Diego, national and international research centers launched a first-of-its-kind workshop series intended to bring together investigators from a wide range of scientific fields to develop a 3D Virtual Cell. Funding for the Dec. 13-14 conference was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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1.1.2013
"The News Gazette"
Q&A with new director of NCSA
Edward Seidel will take over as Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in January, and he credits Calit2 Director Larry Smarr for getting him interested in high-performance computing. Seidel worked for Smarr in the early 90s, when Smarr was the founding director of NCSA, located in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In an interview with the News-Gazette newspaper, Seidel is quoted as saying, "it was being a postdoc of Larry Smarr at NCSA that drew me in to scientific computing and interdisciplinary work." Since then, Seidel has worked at the NSF and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, was the founder of the Center of Computation and Technology at Louisiana, and is currently a senior VP of research and innovation at Skoltech, Russia's new interdisciplinary research university.
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1.1.2013
"Telehealth & Telecare Aware"
The pill spot -- Proteus's first trial and FDA approval for the next generation PillCam
Calit2 Director Larry Smarr is referenced in this article about telehealth and the difficulties in getting patients to take their prescribed medicine.
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1.1.2013
"Phys Org"
After touch screens, researchers demonstrate electronic recording and replay of human touch (w/ Video)
PhysOrg reports on new technology out of the Qualcomm Institute that could pave the way for digital systems to record, store, edit and replay information in a dimension that goes beyond what we can see or hear: touch.

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1.1.2013
"Noodles"
UC San Diego, UMD Researchers to Build 'WIFIRE' Cyberinfrastructure
The Noodls website picks up our story on a new cyberinfrasture that will use the power of real-time data-driven assessment, simulation, prediction and visualization to help fight fires.
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1.1.2013
"4-traders"
Verizon Communications, Inc.: Innovative, Tech-Enabled Tuberculosis Treatment-Monitoring System Debuts in San Diego
Tuberculosis patients now have a less-intrusive treatment program that will improve the likelihood that they will take all their critical medications, thanks to an innovative, locally developed treatment-adherence monitoring system that uses mobile-health technology and was designed at the Qualcomm Institute.
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1.1.2013
"San Diego Magazine"
The X Factor
San Diego Magazine writer Ann Wycoff writes about "the cult of TED" and the man behind TEDx San Diego, Jack Abbott. TEDx San Diego will take place at the Qualcomm Institute in 2013.
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