California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (2024)

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."
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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 year’s 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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."
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