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10.27.2010 "North County Times" New fire webcams guard San Diego backcountry The North County Times reports on 50 fire webcams that are now broadcasting from mountaintops, including 16 high-resolution cameras installed over the past few weeks. The project is spearheaded by Calit2. [more] |
10.27.2010 "KTVN Reno" New fire webcams guard San Diego backcountry The Reno, Navada, CBS affiliate reports on 50 high-def cameras that were installed for the San Diego fall fire season under the FireSight program, a partnership of Calit2. [more] |
10.27.2010 "KGTV 10News San Diego" Webcams Help Track Wildfires In Backcountry 10 News reports on reports on Calit2's FireSight project, a system of 50 live webcams that provide digital images of San Diego's backcountry. The project was funded by a $36,000 grant from the county Board of Supervisors. [more] |
10.27.2010 "KSWB Fox 5 San Diego" New Webcams Help Fight Backcountry Fires A video report by Fox 5 details a collaborative effort between San Diego County and Calit2 at UC San Diego to install eight cameras on towers in San Diego's backcountry as a tool for preventing wildfire destruction. [more] |
10.27.2010 "KFMB San Diego News 8" New fire webcams guard San Diego backcountry News 8 picks up a story about 50 webcams that are broadcasting from mountaintops, including 16 high-resolution cameras installed over the past few weeks, to detect wildfires The project is spearheaded by Calit2. [more] |
10.26.2010 "San Diego Union-Tribune" Cameras Installed to Spot Wildfires Early The Union-Tribune's Kristina Davis reports on Calit2's FireSight project, a system of 50 webcams that will broadcast fresh images every two minutes from the regions mountaintops. The project is an effort to give an early glimpse of wildfires in remote areas and allow fire chiefs to make decisions quickly as the fire behavior changes. [more] |
10.26.2010 "GreenTMCnet.com" ImTech Confers First-Ever Immersive Technology Awards GreenTMCnet runs a story about the inaugural Immersive Technology Awards, which granted the Calit2 StarCAVE a prize for best immersive visualization innovation in research and education. [more] |
10.26.2010 "Wired " Gallery: Let Your Children Play With Robots Wired's Tim Carmody compiles a gallery of images depicting robotics research being conducted by Javier Movellan, an associate professor affiliated with the Calit2-based Machine Perception Laboratory. [more] |
10.25.2010 "The Medical News" UC San Diego researchers receive two federal grants for biomedical informatics The Medical News picks up our story on a team from the UCSD School of Medicine, which has received two federal grants totaling more than $25 million to develop new ways to gather, analyze, use and share vast, ever-increasing amounts of biomedical information. [more] |
10.25.2010 "MediLexicon" UC San Diego Revives Two Major Biomedical Informatics Grants MediLexicon, the world's largest online database of pharmaceutical and medical abbreviations, reports on two federal grants to develop new ways to gather, analyze, use and share vast, ever-increasing amounts of biomedical information. Calit2 is a partnering institute in the grants. [more] |
10.22.2010 "Bio-Medicine" UC San Diego receives 2 major biomedical informatics grants Bio-Medicine, one of the Internet's leading online organizations and Web portals devoted to biology and medicine, picks up our story on a team from the UCSD School of Medicine, which has received two federal grants totaling more than $25 million to develop new ways to gather, analyze, use and share vast, ever-increasing amounts of biomedical information. Calit2 is a partnering institute in the grants. [more] |
10.22.2010 "Carmel Valley News" Couples online food game for kids wins White House approval Carmel Valley News' Emily DeRuy reports on a game created by Calit2 employees that recently won the Popular Vote in the Apps for Healthy Kids Challenge, a nationwide competition sponsored by First Lady Michelle Obamas Lets Move! campaign. [more] |
10.21.2010 "Scottrade" News & Commentary Scottrade, a leading online brokerage firm, calls upon citizens to participate in California Dreams, a competition with an urgent challenge to recruit citizen visions of the future of California. Calit2 Director Larry Smarr is a judge for the competition. [more] |
10.20.2010 "Medical News Today" Computational Biologist Philip E. Bourne Wins Microsoft's 2010 Jim Gray EScience Award Medical News Today picks up our story on Philip E. Bourne, a computational biologist and professor with the University of California, San Diego, who is this year's recipient of Microsoft's Jim Gray eScience Award, for his contributions to data-intensive computing. [more] |
10.20.2010 "WOAI Seattle" Video Game App Teaches Kids to Eat Healthy The Seattle NBC News affiliate reports on Food Buster, an app developed by a married couple from UCSD. Food Buster recently won the Popular Vote in Michelle Obama's "Apps for Healthy Kids" contest. [more] |
10.20.2010 "WALB Atlanta" Couple invents award-winning food ap for kids WALB, the NBC affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia, reports on the winners of Michelle Obama's "Apps for Healthy Kids" contest, who are based at Calit2. [more] |
10.20.2010 "KOB New Mexico" Video games that teach kids healthy habits The Calit2-based winners of the popular choice award in Michelle Obama's "Apps for Healthy Kids" contest are featured in an article by KOB New Mexico. [more] |
10.20.2010 "WGEM " Can an app help teach your kids to eat healthy? WGEM, which covers news in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa, reports on the Calit2-based creators of "Food Buster," winner of Michelle Obama's "Apps for Healthy Kids" contest. [more] |
10.20.2010 "Data Center Knowledge" Alliance Boosts 380-Volt DC Power Standard Data Center Knowledge reports on new technical standards for data centers created by EMerge Alliance, which includes Calit2 CTO Greg Hidley among its members. [more] |
10.20.2010 "MediLexicon" Computational Biologist Philip E. Bourne Wins Microsoft's 2010 Jim Gray EScience Award The U.K.-based MediLexicon picks up our story on Calit2 academic participant Philip Bourne, this year's recipient of Microsoft's Jim Gray eScience Award, for his contributions to data-intensive computing. [more] |
10.19.2010 "Scientific Computing" Philip E. Bourne wins Microsoft's 2010 Jim Gray eScience Award Scientific Computing, a source of news about information technology for science, reprints our story on UCSD computational biologist Philip Bourne, winner of Microsoft's Jim Gray eScience Award for his contributions to data-intensive computing. [more] |
10.19.2010 "Dr. Dobb\'s" Microsoft's 2010 Jim Gray eScience Award Dr. Dobb's, which reports on "the world of software development," picks up our story on Calit2 academic participant Philip E. Bourne, this year's recipient of Microsoft's Jim Gray eScience Award for his contributions to data-intensive computing. [more] |
10.18.2010 "La Jolla Light" Couples online food game wins White House approval Emily DeRuy reports on the White House-sponsored Apps for Healthy Kids prize awarded to Jesica Oratowski-Coleman and Aaron Coleman, a married couple who both work for Calit2. [more] |
10.18.2010 "HPC Wire" Philip E. Bourne Wins Microsoft's 2010 Jim Gray eScience Award HPC Wire picks up our story on Philip E. Bourne, a computational biologist and professor with the University of California, San Diego, who has won Microsoft's Jim Gray eScience Award, for his contributions to data-intensive computing. [more] |
10.18.2010 "ChemInfo" Philip E. Bourne Wins Microsoft's 2010 Jim Gray EScience Award ChemInfo -- a source of news stories on alternative energy, software, wireless communications and other industries -- carries a story about UCSD computational biologist Philip Bourne, who is this year's recipient of Microsoft's Jim Gray eScience Award for his contributions to data-intensive computing. [more] |
10.7.2010 "San Diego Union-Tribune" Tijuana Innovadora highlights city's aspirations, potential Gregory Hidley, technical director of Calit2 at UC San Diego, is one of the speakers at Tijuana Innovadora, a high-profile conference that aims to polish Tijuana's image and draw new investments. Hidley, who will speak about using technology to promote cross-border research, joins the ranks of other conference speakers such as Carlos Slim, the worlds wealthiest person; the founders of Twitter and Wikipedia; and former Vice President Al Gore. [more] |
10.4.2010 "La Nazione (Italy)" Leonardo, ricerche nel 2011 per la Battaglia di Anghiari The Italian newspaper quotes CISA3 director Maurizio Seracini as saying that the search for a lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece will resume in 2011, pending fundraising to complete the project. (Italian) [more] |
10.3.2010 "The Chronicle of Higher Education" Digitally Incorrect: Ricardo Dominguez's provocations: art or crimes? Evan R. Goldstein reports at length about Calit2-affiliated Assistant Professor of Visual Arts Ricardo Dominguez and his controversial Transborder Immigrant Tool. [more] |
10.1.2010 "La Jolla Light" UCSD Couple wins 'Apps For Healthy Kids' challenge and trip to the White House The newspaper reports on two Calit2 staffers whose healthy-eating web app took the popular vote in the 'Apps for Healthy Kids' competition nationwide. [more] |
9.30.2010 "KPBS Radio's "These Days with Maureen Cavanaugh"" US Diplomat In San Diego For Gandhi Memorial Lecture Maureen Cavanaugh interviews Robert O. Blake Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia. He's in San Diego to deliver The 27th Annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture, which will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30 in the Calit2 Auditorium. [more] |
9.30.2010 "North County Times" UCSD couple's healthy eating game wins national prize Claire Trageser reports on the announcement that FoodBuster -- a game developed by two staffers at Calit2 -- won the popular vote in a competition to build 'Apps for Healthy Kids'. [more] |
9.29.2010 "Melodika.net" Institute for the Future Looks Ahead at California Beyond the Crisis Melodika.net, the "home of music," reports on the Institute for the Future's collaboration with Calit2 on an interactive map, "California Dreaming: Imagining New Futures for the State." [more] |
9.28.2010 "SmartGrid" Report: Milwaukee area's computer-savvy workforce is growing fast SmartGrid picks up a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article that mentions Calit2 as "the best example" of an initiative that pairs technology businesses with academic institutions to develop computer-driven solutions. [more] |
9.28.2010 "Ecodirt.com" Institute for the Future Looks Ahead at California Beyond the Crisis Ecodirt.com picks up a story on the Institute for the Future's interactive map, "California Dreaming: Imagining New Futures for the State," which was developed, in part, by Calit2. [more] |
9.28.2010 "Biomed Reports" Institute for the Future Looks Ahead at California Beyond the Crisis Calit2 Director Larry Smarr is quoted in a report on an interactive map, "California Dreaming: Imagining New Futures for the State." [more] |
9.28.2010 "eMedia World" Institute for the Future Looks Ahead at California Beyond the Crisis Calit2 joined in an effort to explore alternative scenarios for California beyond the current financial crisis. [more] |
9.27.2010 "San Diego Business Journal" Execs Try to Make Motorola Feel At Home The Business Journal's Brad Graves reports on a meeting of high-powered business leaders and Motorola Mobility executives, who recently met at Calit2 to discuss the possibility of Motorola Mobility moving to San Diego. Julie Meier Wright, president and chief executive officer of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp., told the group that Calit2 is a ?phenomenal San Diego asset.? [more] |
9.27.2010 "e-Dream" Timeline for Emerging Digital Research and Education In Arts Media Institute Calit2 Director Larry Smarr and Calit2 Director of Visualization Tom DeFanti are cited in a timeline depicting the history of research contributions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [more] |
9.27.2010 "Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel" Report: Milwaukee area's computer-savvy workforce is growing fast Jay Bayne, executive director of the non-profit Milwaukee Institute, calls Calit2 the best initiative he's seen that partners technology businesses and academic institutions. [more] |
9.25.2010 "The New York Times" The Future of California, Ready for Discussion Calit2 Director Larry Smarr is quoted in Jonathan Weber's New York Times piece about a collaboration between Calit2, the Institute for the Future and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). The partners have developed a new map called "California Dreaming" that illustrates four alternative futures for California. [more] |
9.6.2010 "San Diego Business Journal" Region Is a Scientific Hub on Canvas of Excellence Christine Forester reports on world-class research institutions based in San Diego, specifically mentioning SIO, Calit2 and IR/PS at UC San Diego. [more] |
8.24.2010 "Popular Science" Gallery: 30 Awesome College Labs Popular Science calls the Calit2 StarCAVE "something you?d expect to find in Lara Croft?s mansion" and highlights the immersive virtual reality environment in its photo feature (Calit2 is image 23 of 30). [more] |
8.20.2010 "EE Times Europe" NSF funds computer design variabilty project The National Science Foundation awarded a $10 million, five-year grant to researchers to explore a new paradigm for the way hardware and software interface in order to potentially reduce by as much as 40 percent the energy cost of computing. [more] |
8.20.2010 "First Science News" Software for efficient computing in the age of nanoscale devices A $10 million, five-year grant from NSF will fund a project by Calit2-affiliated researchers to explore "Variability-Aware Software for Efficient Computing with Nanoscale Devices." [more] |
8.20.2010 "Dr. Dobb's" Proactive Software to Combat Variability Dr. Dobb's, which covers "the world of software development," picks up our story about the National Science Foundation's $10 million, five-year grant to Calit2-affiliated researchers who will explore "Variability-Aware Software for Efficient Computing with Nanoscale Devices." [more] |
8.19.2010 "PhysOrg.com" Software for efficient computing in the age of nanoscale devices PhysOrg.com runs our story about the National Science Foundation's $10 million, five-year grant to Calit2-affiliated researchers who will explore "Variability-Aware Software for Efficient Computing with Nanoscale Devices." [more] |
8.19.2010 "ChemInfo" Software For Efficient Computing In The Age Of Nanoscale Devices A $10 million, five-year grant from NSF will fund a project by Calit2-affiliated researchers to explore "Variability-Aware Software for Efficient Computing with Nanoscale Devices." [more] |
8.19.2010 "Scientific Computing" Software For Efficient Computing In The Age Of Nanoscale Devices A visionary team of computer scientists and electrical engineers from six universities -- including UCSD -- is proposing to deal with the downside of nanoscale computer components by re-thinking and enhancing the role that software can play in a new class of computing machines that are adaptive and highly energy efficient. [more] |
8.19.2010 "NanoTechWire.com" NSF Funds Expedition into Software for Efficient Computing in the Age of Nanoscale Devices A visionary team of computer scientists and electrical engineers from six universities -- including UCSD -- is proposing to deal with the downside of nanoscale computer components by re-thinking and enhancing the role that software can play in a new class of computing machines that are adaptive and highly energy efficient. [more] |
8.11.2010 "eSchool News" Coming soon to a classroom near you: Robot teachers? Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor of eSchool News, profiles the RUBI Robot, which was developed by the Machine Perception Laboratory at Calit2. [more] |
8.11.2010 "Sydney Morning Herald" Our network choice: cheap and slow or expensive but fast The newspaper quotes Calit2 Director Larry Smarr, who likens the Labor Party's plan to invest up to $42 billion in the continent's cyberinfrastructure to the 1956 decision by president Dwight Eisenhower to build the publicly funded interstate highway system. [more] |
8.9.2010 "La Jolla Light" RESEARCH REPORT: Project engineers preservation of cultural treasures La Jolla Light reporter Lynne Friedmann reports on the CISA3/Calit2 initiative known as Training, Research and Education in Engineering for Cultural Heritage Diagnostics (TEECH), which will create "digital clinical charts" that "allow the monitoring of artifacts over time and informed decision making about restoration, repair, and other solutions." [more] |
8.4.2010 "The New York Times" The Future of Broadband ? in Tasmania Reporter Steve Lohr of the New York Times "Bits" blog quotes Calit2 Director Larry Smarr, who calls Tasmania's new policy ?one of the most interesting experiments in the world.? [more] |
8.2.2010 "Popular Mechanics" DATA SORTING WORLD RECORD FALLS AS COMPUTER SCIENTISTS BREAK TERABYTE SORT BARRIER Popular Science reports on the world record broken by computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego, who sorted more than one terabyte of data (1 000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) in just 60 seconds. [more] |
8.2.2010 "India Vision" Computer scientists shatter 'terabyte barrier', set new world record India Vision covers UC San Diego's victory in the "Sort Benchmark" competition - the "World Cup of data sorting"when it broke the world record by sorting more than 1 terabyte of data. [more] |
8.1.2010 "Andhra News" Computer scientists shatter terabyte barrier, set new world record India's Andhra News covers UC San Diego's victory in the "Sort Benchmark" competition - the "World Cup of data sorting" - when it broke the world record by sorting more than 1 terabyte of data. [more] |
8.1.2010 "Yahoo! India News" Computer scientists shatter terabyte barrier, set new world record The Indian version of Yahoo! News reports on the world record broken by computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego, who sorted more than one terabyte of data (1 000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) in just 60 seconds. [more] |
8.1.2010 "The Gaea Times" Computer scientists shatter ?terabyte barrier?, set new world record The Gaea Times reports on the world record broken by UCSD computer scientists, who sorted one trillion data records in 172 minutes ? and did so using just a quarter of the computing resources of the other record holder. [more] |
7.29.2010 "TMC.Net" UCSD Researchers Receive NSF Award to Support Data-Intensive Applications for Advanced Networks TMC.Net picks up our story on a 3-year NSF grant awarded to UC San Diego, Northwestern University and the University of Illinois, Chicago, to encourage and enhance digital communication and collaboration between the U.S. and international science and engineering research and education communities. [more] |
7.28.2010 "Red Orbit" Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier Red Orbit reports on the world record broken by UCSD computer scientists, who sorted one trillion data records in 172 minutes ? and did so using just a quarter of the computing resources of the other record holder. [more] |
7.28.2010 "NewsWise" Data World Record Falls as Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier UCSD computer scientists tied two world records during the 2010 ?Sort Benchmark? competition ? the ?World Cup of data sorting. [more] |
7.28.2010 "Innovations Report" Data sorting world record falls: Computer scientists break terabyte sort barrier in 60 seconds Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke ?the terabyte barrier? ? and a world record ? when they sorted more than one terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) in just 60 seconds. [more] |
7.28.2010 "HPC Wire" Researchers Receive NSF Award to Encourage International Science Collaboration HPCWire, which "covers the fastest computers in the world and the people who run them," reports on UCSD's three-year, multi-university grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to encourage and enhance digital communication and collaboration between the US and international science and engineering research and education communities. [more] |
7.28.2010 "Scientific Computing" Data Sorting Record Falls: Terabyte barrier broken Scientific Computing, purveyor of news on 'information technology for science,' reports on two records broken by UCSD computer scientists for sorting more than one terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) in just 60 seconds and sorting one trillion data records in 172 minutes. [more] |
7.28.2010 "AT&T Labs Research" Sustainable Computing and Telecom Can Contribute to Limiting Global Climatic Disruption Calit2 Director Larry Smarr discusses the subject of his address to AT&T Labs Research, wuch covers several affiliated projects with Calit2 that are aimed at increasing ICT energy efficiency. [more] |
7.27.2010 "Science Daily" Data Sorting World Record Falls: Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier in 60 Seconds Science Daily reports on the new world record set by computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego when they sorted more than one terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) in just 60 seconds. [more] |
7.27.2010 "Chattahbox" Computer scientists break terabyte data-sorting barrier in 60 seconds Chattahbox picks up our story on the world record broken by UCSD computer scientists at the "Sort Benchmark" competition. [more] |
7.27.2010 "HPC Wire" Data Sorting World Record Falls as UC San Diego Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Barrier It was an epic day for heavy-duty data sorting when computer scientists from UCSD broke "the terabyte barrier" -- and set a new world record -- when they sorted more than one terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) in just 60 seconds on a computing cluster at Calit2. [more] |
7.27.2010 "Product Design and Development" Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke ?the terabyte barrier? ? and a world record ? when they sorted more than one terabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes) in just 60 seconds. [more] |
7.26.2010 "Endgadget" UC San Diego researchers repurpose 3D HDTV for heads-up VR system Endgadget's Donald Melanson calls Calit2's HUVR technology a "bright idea." HUVR pairs a $2,300 Samsung 3D TV with a half-silvered mirror and a touch-feedback controller for a haptic-enabled heads-up virtual reality system [more] |
7.26.2010 "The Mercury" From texting to apps, using cell phones for health AP Medical writer Lauren Neergaard reports on a project spearheaded by Calit2's Dr. Kevin Patrick, which uses a text-message program to encourage weight loss [more] |
7.23.2010 "Media Tasmania" Tasmania's Broadband Advantage Promoted to the World Tasmania's Premier, David Bartlett, releases a comprehensive summary of events on his nine-day trip to the United States, including his collaboration with Calit2 Director Larry Smarr at the Australia America Leadership Dialogue. [more] |
7.22.2010 "Campus Technology" UC San Diego Shows Off Virtual Reality with Touch Campus Technology reporter Dian Schaffhauser reports on HUVR, "a virtual reality device using a 3D high definition TV along with a haptic technology that allows users to view 3D images but also touch them." [more] |
7.22.2010 "Dr. Dobb's" Heads-Up Virtual Reality (HUVR) Dr. Dobb's picks up our story about Head-Up Virtual Reality (HUVR), which is ideal for tasks that require hand-eye coordination and is well-suited to training and education in structural and mechanical engineering, archaeology, and medicine. [more] |
7.22.2010 "Noticias.com (Spain)" Una realidad virtual que se puede tocar The Spanish news service reports on UCSD researchers at Calit2 who created a device that "allows users to touch a generated image as if it were a real material with a physical presence." [more] |
7.21.2010 "Heritage Key" 'Cheap' Heads-Up Virtual Reality System Combines 3D Visuals With Tactile Feedback Heritage Key, a website devoted to exploring the ancient world, imagines the possibilities presented by Calit2's new HUVR technology [more] |
7.21.2010 "Del Mar Times" Grant will help UCSD-led team speed lab discoveries to the clinic Science columnist Lynne Friedmann reports on UCSD Health Sciences and its Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI), which will draw upon computing resources at Calit2 to develop a "common infrastructure that emphasizes 'group science' through shared research and resources and institutional support." [more] |
7.21.2010 "Tendencias21.net (Spain)" Crean el primer dispositivo de realidad virtual tangible In its 'Engineering Trends' section, this news service reports on the creation of a virtual-reality glove that "allows users to touch digital images as if they were real." [more] |
7.20.2010 "InAVate" Samsung Consumer TV Key to Touchable 3D Inavate, the leading online resource for Pro AV technology and integration in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, reports on Calit2's new HUVR technology, calling the device's Samsung 3D TV "the key to allowing users to view, manipulate and feel 3D images via a low-cost, portable display." [more] |
7.19.2010 "PhysOrg" Heads-Up Virtual Reality (HUVR) Bridges Visual with Tactile, in 3D and on the Cheap PhysOrg reports on Calit2's HUVR, a new, relatively low-cost virtual reality device that allows users not only to see a 3D image, but 'feel' it, too. [more] |
7.19.2010 "Wired" Augmented Reality: HUVR haptic system Wired's Bruce Sterling calls the release of Calit2's HUVR technology 'a good day for haptic weirdness.' [more] |
7.15.2010 "Forbes.com" Ocean Observatories Will Make Use of CENIC and Pacific NorthWest GigaPoP 10-Gigabit Peerings Peering connections between Amazon's "cloud" offerings and the CENIC broadband educational network in California will allow the UCSD and Calit2-based Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure to offer its users new ways to store and process data gathered via OOI's remote ocean observatories. [more] |
7.15.2010 "Ulitzer: Amazon Cloud Journal" CENIC and PNWGP to Use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Pat Romanski reports that "when a national network of ocean observatories begins streaming environmental sensor data in March 2012, researchers throughout California will be able to use the state?s high-speed academic network to transmit some of that data to storage and computing clouds operated by Amazon Web Services." [more] |
7.13.2010 "MedCompare" UC San Diego Receives Major Clinical And Translational Science Award With $37.2 million NSF grant, UCSD's Clinical and Translational Research Institute will speed medical progress, from concept to completion. Calit2 is cited as a provider of powerful computing resources to CTRI. [more] |
7.12.2010 "ABC 7 MySuncoast.com" From texting to apps, using cell phones for health The local ABC syndicate in Sarasota, Fla., picks up the AP story on a Calit2-affiliated project, led by Dr. Kevin Patrick, to use text messaging to help people lose weight. [more] |
7.1.2010 "Hobart Mercury (Australia)" Bartlett talks up Tassie IT Meryl Naidoo reports on a speech by Tasmania's David Bartlett on the future of Tasmanian broadband, mentioning that Bartlett appeared this week with Calit2 director Larry Smarr at the Australian American Leadership Dialogue in Washington, D.C. [more] |
6.21.2010 "Hobart Mercury" US Trip for Bartlett Sue Neales reports for the leading newspaper in Tasmania on the coming trip by the Australian state's premier to the U.S., where he will co-present with Calit2 director Larry Smarr at the Australian American Leadership Dialogue in Washington, D.C. [more] |
6.21.2010 "Australian Broadcasting" Bartlett to Sell NBN to US ABC News reports that Tasmania's Premier will travel to the U.S. next month to promote the state's broadband infrastructure, and meet with Calit2's Larry Smarr, "one of the fathers of the Internet," at the Australia American Leadership Dialogue in Washington, D.C. [more] |
6.15.2010 "San Jose Mercury-News" Self-trackers use sensors, software and spreadsheets to improve their lives Calit2's Larry Smarr is one of the people profiled in Lisa Krieger's article about the "geek elite movement called "The Quantified Self," where individuals measure the minutia of moods, weight, pain, muscle mass, even their innermost thoughts, in an effort to know themselves better and improve their lives." [more] |
6.15.2010 "La Jolla Light" Experimental music event closes department's season Lonnie Hewitt reports on the May event at Calit2 when the institute's composer in residence, Roger Reynolds, celebrated the end of his 3-year residency. [more] |
6.15.2010 "CityBeat" Go Local Anders Wright reports on the upcoming showing of "Old Money," a short film by Jay Drose, on the 4K projector in the Calit2 Auditorium. The 4K "projects at a resolution that?s considerably better than the standard 2K projectors that go into most new cineplexes." [more] |
6.14.2010 "Rebelion (Spain)" La ciencia de los oprimidos Spanish-language interview by Carolina del Olmo with UCSD visual arts professor and 'art-activist' Ricardo Dominguez, a principal investigator in Calit2 and co-founder of the *particle group* of new-media artists. [more] |
6.13.2010 "San Diego Union-Tribune" UCSD: Modern at 50 Review of new book on San Diego architecture by Dirk Sutro praises the award-winning Atkinson Hall at UC San Diego, home to the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). [more] |
6.8.2010 "San Diego Union-Tribune" See You This Afternoon at the Xconomy Forum: The Rise of Smart Energy Article by Bruce Bigelow of Xconomy.com about the Xconomy Forum on smart energy, which was held at Calit2's Atkinson Hall and featured Calit2 Director Larry Smarr as the keynote speaker. [more] |
5.13.2010 "MedCity News" Signs of life in the biotech exit market? Brandon Glenn notes that Calit2's Larry Smarr is "an early adopter of the lifestyle known as the quantified self," pointing to Smarr's talk at a forum in Seattle recently for Xconomy.com. [more] |
5.12.2010 "Xconomy" How Internet Pioneer Larry Smarr Lost 20 Pounds by Becoming a ?Quantified Self? Luke Timmerman reports on Calit2 director Larry Smarr's presentation to the OVP Tech Summit in Seattle, where he focused on how he is living proof of a coming trend: using information technology to regularly monitor one's wellness. [more] |
5.12.2010 "San Diego News Network" How an Internet pioneer lost 20 pounds by becoming 'quantified self' The online news network SDNN republishes an article from Xconomy about Calit2 director Larry Smarr's wellness solution: quantifying data about what goes on in the individual body, using IT and wireless tools. [more] |
4.23.2010 "Xconomy.com" San Diego's Place in the Sun The online news site notes its upcoming Xconomy Forum on smart energy, hosted by Calit2 at UCSD with keynote speaker Larry Smarr. [more] |
4.21.2010 "Lab Manager Magazine" Agilent Technologies and UC San Diego Collaborate on Chip-Scale Photonic Systems Testing Facility The magazine picked up the announcement of Calit2's new Chip-Scale Photonic Testing Facility in Atkinson Hall, with support from Agilent and NSF. [more] |
4.19.2010 "Earth Times" Agilent Technologies and UC San Diego Collaborate on Chip-Scale Photonic Systems Testing Facility Pickup of Calit2 news release re: creation of a new lab at Calit2 for chip-scale photonics. [more] |
4.19.2010 "TheStreet.com" Agilent Technologies And UC San Diego Collaborate On Chip-Scale Photonic Systems Testing Facility The online investor news source re-printed the UCSD news release about a new lab at Calit2 for chip-scale testing of photonics devices. [more] |
4.12.2010 "PhysOrg" The Next Silicon Revolution A new silicon revolution that merges silicon chips with sophisticated wireless tools in the millimeter and microwave range is evident based on the accepted papers from UCSD at IMS 2010 and RFIC 2010. UCSD and Calit2 electrical engineers have more papers than any other university at the co-located conferences. [more] |
4.9.2010 "The Register" Virtual sit-in tests line between DDoS and free speech UCSD professor Ricardo Dominguez is quoted in this article by Dan Goodin in San Francisco, focusing on the issue of civil disobedience in the digital age. [more] |
3.31.2010 "Chronicle of Higher Education" Energy-Use Web Site Shows a Campus Where to Conserve In the Wired Campus section, Josh Keller reports on the new UC San Diego Energy Dashboard and interviewed its principal developer, Yuvraj Agarwal. [more] |
3.31.2010 "La Jolla Light" Sustainability-themed art on display at UCSD One of the greenest campuses in the country is showcasing sustainability in art, with a new exhibition called "A Light Green Light", opening April 2 in the gallery@calit2. [more] |
3.30.2010 "San Diego News Network" UCSD Energy Dashboard measures campus consumption Editor Barbara Bry reports on the launch of a new Internet portal offering real-time measurement and visualization of energy use on the UCSD campus, including for Atkinson Hall and the CSE building. [more] |
3.22.2010 "San Diego Union-Tribune" http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/22/interest-science-fest-scaled-down/ A preview of upcoming events this week during the San Diego Science Festival, organized by UCSD, include a two-hour event with magician Jamy Ian Swiss, to take place in the Calit2 Auditorium on Wednesday, March 24 from 6pm to 8pm. [more] |
3.18.2010 "Xconomy.com" Seattle Grand Challenges Summit The website notes that Calit2's Larry Smarr will be among the speakers at a May 2-3 conference organized by the Seattle chapter of the National Academy of Engineering. [more] |
3.12.2010 "Nebraska.tv" Is Kindness Contagious? The report is picked up from HealthDay News, about the research of UCSD professor James Fowler, who is affiliated with Calit2's Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems. [more] |
2.24.2010 "Chronicle of Higher Education" Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above 'Exaflood' of Data In the publition's Wired Campus section, Josh Fischman reports on Calit2 and Larry Smarr's efforts to associate ocean microbe DNA with environmental metadata. [more] |
2.17.2010 "Modern Luxury" Paging Pratt An article by AnneMaria Stephens highlights the work of Calit2's Maurizio Seracini and other UCSD-based, arts-oriented faculty and students. [more] |
2.16.2010 "GLT News Now" The Revenger's Tragedy Jean Lowerison writes about the new play directed by Calit2's own new Director in Residence, featuring UCSD actors. [more] |
2.13.2010 "San Diego Union-Tribune" Prime-time theater: Ashley puts the reality in revenge Theater critic James Hebert reports on the staging of a play by Calit2's new Director in Residence. "Ashley is also partnering on the "Revenger's Tragedy" with Calit2, the UCSD hive mind of outrageously creative tech-tonics," writes Hebert. "The director has talked for some time about organizing a citywide festival of art and technology, and Calit2 likely would be a major player in that." [more] |
2.10.2010 "North County Times" Playhouse's Ashley to stage 'Revenger's Tragedy' as a reality TV show The paper's theater critic notes that Calit2's director in residence directs the new production at Potiker Theatre. [more] |
2.9.2010 "Scientific Computing" Open-Source Cyberinfrastructure to Aggregate Cancer Research Data The online news service picks up Calit2's news release about the CYCORE joint venture with Texas's M.D. Anderson School of Medicine to create a cyberinfrastructure that will improve the study of comparative effectiveness of cancer treatments. [more] |
2.5.2010 "Inter Press Service News" Lost in the Desert? There's an App for That An even-handed report on the development of the Transborder Immigrant Tool, quoting the project's leader, visual art professor Ricardo Dominguez. [more] |
2.3.2010 "HealthCanal.com" Developing a Cyberinfrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness in Cancer Research Calit2 researchers in the CYCORE project will develop cyberinfrastructure to improve data on comparative effectivess of cancer treatments. [more] |
2.2.2010 "Xconomy.com" Google Funds Research on Mobile Sensing at UW, Energy Efficiency at UC San Diego Gregory Huang reports on the inaugural Google Focused Research Awards, including one to a team led by Tajana Rosing of ECE/Calit2. [more] |
1.11.2010 "WBUR Public Radio" A Rumored Da Vinci Generates Buzz in Boston In a sidebar to an article about a possible newly-found painting by Leonardo da Vinci, the public radio station in Boston highlights its prior audio feature about Calit2's Maurizio Seracini. [more] |
1.11.2010 "PhysOrg.com" Go-anywhere tracking of first responders with WIISARD radio-frequency system PhysOrg, one of the leading web-based science, technology and research news services, picks up our story on a Calit2 research project that is using ways to use radio frequency identification tags to track first responders inside buildings. [more] |
1.4.2010 "HPCwire" The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The high-performance computing news service carries a first-person article by Calit2 director Larry Smarr, reflecting on the NSF Supercomputer Center program, past, present and future. [more] |
1.1.2010 "CDRInfo" New Virtual Reality Bridges Visual with Tactile in 3D CDRInfo, a source of information about CD, DVD and other related optical media technologies, covers Calit2's new HUVR virtual reality device. [more] |
1.1.2010 "Del Mar Times" Grant will help UCSD-led team speed lab discoveries to the clinic Science columnist Lynne Friedmann reports on UCSD Health Sciences and its Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI), which will draw upon computing resources at Calit2 to develop a "common infrastructure that emphasizes 'group science' through shared research and resources and institutional support." [more] |
1.1.2010 "Red Orbit" Computer Scientists Break Terabyte Sort Barrier Red Orbit reports on the world record broken by UCSD computer scientists, who sorted one trillion data records in 172 minutes ? and did so using just a quarter of the computing resources of the other record holder. [more] |
1.1.2010 "VizWorld" 21-Screen NexCAVE Aids Research at UCSD VizWorld's Randall Hand reports on the Calit2 NexCAVE, which he calls "an impressive new visualization system." [more] |
1.1.2010 "San Diego Union-Tribune" San Diego artists crash OC party: Long ignored by the California Biennial, San Diego artists have carved out a large spot in this years survey The Union-Tribune's James Chute reports on the 2010 California Biennial, which, for the first time, is heavy on work by San Diego artists and features installations by Calit2 visual artists Ricardo Dominguez and Nina Waisman. [more] |
1.1.2010 "San Diego 10 News" Webcams Help Track Wildfires In Backcountry 10 News carries a story on FireSense, a new collaboration between Calit2, CalFire and the San Diego County Board of Supervisors that is designed to tackle wildfires early. [more] |
1.1.2010 "RedOrbit" Citizen Scientists Explore Ancient Mongolia from Afar RedOrbit, an online community for those with an interest in science, space, health and technology, reports on the 'citizen scientists' who are helping Calit2-based explorer Albert Yu-Min Lin look for Bronze Age burial sites and other antiquities in Mongolia. [more] |
1.1.2010 "San Diego Business Journal" The Need for Speed: Verizon Wireless Gears Up to Launch 4G Network in San Diego Brad Graves of the SDBJ quotes Calit2-UCSD director Ramash Rao about the exciting potential of fourth generation wireless telecom networks. [more] |
1.1.2010 "San Diego 6 XETV" Webcams Watching for Backcountry Wildfires San Diego 6 reports on a Calit2 partnership that has embedded 50 live webcams in San Diego County's backcountry as part of a new program designed to tackle wildfires early. [more] |
1.1.2010 "Vodule" MAPPING TIME: Visualization of temporal patterns in media and art Vodule, which describes its mission as "tracing the extension of volume and modularity in 3-D, augmented reality, and emerging media," features a story on Calit2's current exhibition, "Mapping Time." [more] |
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