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From Crime Scene Clues To Life On Mars: UC Berkeley chemist Richard Mathies designs high-tech tools for two very different kinds of detectives.
November 16, 2004

UC Berkeley chancellor named to Prop. 71 stem cell oversight committee
November 15, 2004

33-Year Hunt for Proof of Spin Current Now Over, Announced in Science Spin Hall Effect Observed
November 11, 2004 - CNSI

UC President Dynes helps dedicate Engineering 2 and Baskin Engineering Auditorium
November 8, 2004 - QB3

Institute Building Dedications Begin Today and Continue Over Coming Weeks
October 29, 2004

CITRIS Corporate Sponsor Day
October 26, 2004 - QB3

Cal-(IT)2 $300,000 Contest to Promote Faculty Collaboration
October 21, 2004- Calit2

UC Irvine Scientists Develop World's Longest Electrically Conducting Nanotubes
October 21, 2004- Calit2

2005 Oliver E. Buckley Prize Awarded to CNSI Professor David Awschalom
October 12, 2004 - CNSI

Landmark Agreement Between Samoa and UC Berkeley Could Help Search for AIDS Cure
September 29, 2004 - QB3

UCB professor Eugene W. Myers awarded Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation
Max Planck Society, May 5, 2004

2003 NEWS ARCHIVES

Eureka! Historian finds meaning in treatise
San Diego Union-Tribune, December 16, 2003
A husband-and-wife team of combinatorial mathematicians -- Calit2 chief scientist Ron Graham, and Fan Chung Graham -- helped Stanford University historian of mathematics, Reviel Netz, solve "the mystery of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes' treatise called the Stomachion." Both Graham are computer science professors in UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. The article was written by Gina Kolata, and appeared on Dec. 14.

Five Questions: Larry Smarr
San Diego Union-Tribune, December 16, 2003
Personal technology writer Jonathan Sidener talks to Calit2 director Larry Smarr about the future of supercomputing and the "Gigabit or Bust" initiative. He also asks whether the technology economy in San Diego will ever escape the shadow of Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, and Smarr replies: "I think it's just the opposite. Silicon Valley is going through a crisis of confidence... San Diego is where San Jose was in 1980. We're just at the start of building a wireless world, and San Diego is a leading center of wireless. I look to San Diego as being the future."

The View from the Top
Nature, December 10, 2003
In its Dec. 11 special report on science and technology in San Diego, contributing editor Ken Howard spoke with Calit2 director Larry Smarr and other local scientists, engineers, CEOs and policymakers. "San Diego is facing significant challenges to its future development," he writes. "How do the some of the region's leading lights think it will cope?"

FCC Chairman to Visit San Diego
The Daily Transcript, December 5, 2003
The newspaper reports that FCC chairman Michael Powell discuss issues affecting the telecom industry at a public conversation with CSE professor and Calit2 director Larry Smarr, and Peter Cowhey, dean of UCSD's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. The event will take place at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9. Later, Powell is expected to tour Pala, Rincon and San Pasqual Indian reservations to see how technology is being implemented.
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SDSC, Sun Microsystems Tout Joint Efforts
The Daily Transcript, December 5, 2003
Technology writer Jennifer McEntee reports on several joint research programs that team Sun Microsystems Inc. and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, including the building of a supercomputer from scratch in just two hours at last week's Supercomputing 2003 conference in Phoenix, AZ. Sun and SDSC are described as "steadfast allies, a relationship one researcher described as 'deep and fruitful.
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In Ladera, It's a Beautiful Day in the Intranet Neighborhood
LA Times, December 3, 2003
Alladi Venkatesh, a management professor and Associate Director of UC Irvine's Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, part of the UCI Division of Calit2, comments on his studies about community building in the Ladera Ranch development and his belief that the intranet developed at Ladera has helped neighbors come together on a grass-roots level.
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California NanoSystems Institute to Host First International NanoSystems Symposium at UCLA Dec. 13
UCLA News, December 3, 2003
The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) will host its first International NanoSystems Symposium at UCLA from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13, at the UCLA De Neve Plaza.Auditorium.Nanoscience and nanotechnology topics will be discussed by internationally renowned scientists: George Whitesides from Harvard University, Thomas Steitz from Yale University, Cees Dekker from Delft University in The Netherlands, Gerhard Wagner from Harvard Medical School and Mildred Dresselhaus from MIT, with comments from Fraser Stoddart, the CNSI director who will occupy UCLA's Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences.

Great Balls of Fire
MIT Technology Review, December 3, 2003
In the December-January issue, the magazine's "Prototype" section reports on the success of Jacobs School professor Henrik Wann Jensen and Ron Fedkiw of Stanford University, in developing software that creates realistic animations of fire. Reports the magazine: "The software solves equations that describe swirling fluids, expanding gases, and vaporized fuel, and renders effects like smoke, soot, and objects igniting. It takes about five minutes to generate each frame, but filmmakers and special-effects companies are interested." Jensen is affiliated with Calit2.

CITRIS researcher David Culler named among Scientific American top 50 innovators of the year
Scientific American, December 1, 2003
Related Article: Mercury News

BigBangwidth BOOSTS OptIPuter
GRID Today, December 1, 2003
Researchers building a new type of Grid computing environment known as the OptIPuter have agreed to deploy BigBangwidth's next-generation lightpath technology. The system will be installed at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD), and will act as an on-ramp for large data streams from high-performance workstations connected to packet-switched networks.

Smarr on Life, GRIDS, 'The Perfect Storm'
GRID Today, December 1, 2003
HPCwire Assistant Editor Tim Curns' interview with Larry Smarr of Calit2 concerning his impressions of SC2003 and the future of supercomputing.

Buried Measure
San Diego Union-Tribune, November 27, 2003
Technology writer Scott LaFee reports on efforts to "watch, record and respond" to environmental conditions "as the technologies of embedded networks mature and evolve." He cites the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve project of SDSU, which is affiliated with Calit2, as a "working laboratory for embedded sensor technology." SDSU's Claudia Luke and another Calit2-affiliated scientist, Dan Cayan of UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, are quoted.

Cal engineering students showcase their life-simplifying inventions
Oakland Tribune, November 25, 2003

UC Davis CITRIS researchers awarded $5 million for cybersecurity study
Daily Democrat, November 18, 2003



CITRIS researchers probe data avalanche
Oakland Tribune, November 17, 2003



UCSD Calit2 and OptIPuter Researchers Will Join At SC2003
HPCwire, November 14, 2003
The high-performance computing news service reports that intitute director Larry Smarr, Jacobs School dean Frieder Seible and co-PIs on the OptIPuter will be among those talking to Supercomputing 2003 in Phoenix, AZ, the week of Nov. 15-21.

CITRIS researchers try to measure the amount of information that Humans create
November 12, 2003

UCSD Grad Student Wins Competition
The Daily Transcript, November 10, 2003
Two academic participants in Calit2 took home the grand prize in the 2003 Collegiate Inventors Competition. UCSD chemistry and biochemistr graduate student Jamie Link won $50,000 for her 'dust-sized chips of silicon' to rapidly and remotely detect biological and chemical agents. Her advisor, UCSD professor Michael Sailor, received $10,000 for his role in the invention. *Registration required*

UCLA Chemist Fraser Stoddart Named Director of California NanoSystems Institute
UCLA News, November 6, 2003

CITRIS researchers build a crash-test Internet that will assess vulnerability
San Francicsco Chronicle, Novermber 6, 2003

New Measure of Success Cited for Statistical Prediction
Electronic Engineering Times, November 4, 2003
In its November 3 edition, the trade publication's Chappell Brown reports that renewed scrutiny of a statistical technique used by British intelligence to decode German military communications during World War II has opened new avenues in statistical prediction that researchers say could improve machine-learning software. "Recent work by Alon Orlitsky and his colleagues at the University of California-San Diego's Department of Electrical Engineering, has yielded a statistical estimator that the researchers say is more accurate than Good-Turing over time," the paper reports. Orlitsky is an academic participant in Calit2.

R&D: Mapping DNA's Danger Zones
Discover Magazine, November 3, 2003
Joseph Selim writes in the November 2003 issue of the magazine that "two bioinformatics researchers from the University of California at San Diego have pulled the rug out from under a central tenet of evolution—that mutations appear at random in different parts of our DNA." Jacobs School computer science and engineering professor Pavel Pevzner is quoted as saying "it's like having earthquake fault lines running through your DNA."

On Demand Manufacturing used by CITRIS researchers in developing robotics and electronics
MIT Technology Review, November 1, 2003

CITRIS researcher Peter Lyman studies exploding growth of information being generated
BBC News, October 31, 2003



CITRIS Director serves on panel for Robot Hall of Fame at Carnegie Mellon University
October 27, 2003

$4 million Grant to Aid Disaster Response Plan
San Diego Union-Tribune, October 24, 2003
Science writer Bruce Lieberman reports that UCSD and the VA San Diego Healthcare System landed a "$4.1 million federal grant to transform th eway emergency crews respond to terrorist attacks and other disasters." He quotes Calit2 division director Ramesh Rao on how the telecommunications technology would work.

Science expanding on Darwin's theories
North County Times, October 21, 2003
Technology writer Brad Fikes reports on a project called "Assembling the Tree of Life," a consortium of 13 universities, including UCSD, awarded $4.1 million last month from the NSF. At UCSD, the project is directed by SDSC director and CSE professor Francine Berman, who is quoted as saying "we're mapping the history of life on Earth. Another way to think of this is a molecular version of fossil collecting."

Committee Tapped to Find New UCSD Chancellor
San Diego Business Journal, October 20, 2003
The weekly reports that UC president Robert Dynes named Calit2 director Larry Smarr and 16 others to a committee of UC regents, faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members, "to advise him in the search for the next chancellor of UCSD." Dynes himself stepped down from that position before assuming the UC presidency on Oct. 2. *Subscription required*

Panel is named to advise Dynes on new UCSD leader
San Diego Union-Tribune, October 17, 2003
"Panel is named to advise Dynes on new UCSD leader"
Eleanor Yang reports that a panel of regents, faculty, staff and a student was named to advise UC President Robert Dynes on the search for UCSD's next chancellor. The panel includes "Professor Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and professor of computer science and engineering at UCSD."
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A Connection in Every Spot
Wired Magazine, October 16, 2003
In an article from UbiComp 2003, a ubiquitous-computing conference in Seattle, Mark Baard reports on the ActiveCampus project at UCSD, "which seeks to augment human interactions with location and activity awareness, factors seen by many as essential to the success of large-scale ubiquitous-computing deployments." He quotes project leader [and Calit2 layer leader at UCSD] Bill Griswold as saying that "if we're ever going to take computing out of the lab and the back office... we'll need to make it friendly, not obtrusive. The test should be what makes people happiest."

UCLA Professor and CMISE Co-director Carlo Montemagno Receives Prestigious Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
UCLA News, October 16, 2003

NSF awards $5.46 million to UC Berkeley CITRIS researchers and USC to build testbed for cyber war games
UC Berkeley News, October 15, 2003

UCSD Gets Gift of Camcorders from Sony
San Diego Business Journal, October 14, 2003
Writer Mike Allen reports that "Sony has announced plans to give $12,000 worth of camcorders to UCSD -- specifically to the education section of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology." The equipment will be used by students and faculty at UCSD's Sixth College.
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UCLA Chosen to Lead Nano-Manufacturing Research Center
UCLA News, October 13, 2003
The National Science Foundation has awarded UCLA a grant worth nearly $18 million over five years to establish a new Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. The new center will combine fundamental science and technology in nano-manufacturing that will transform laboratory science into industrial applications in nano-electronics and biomedicine.

$12.5-mn grant to research emergency response system
India Times, October 10, 2003
Writing from Los Angeles, Michael Potts reports for the Indian economy daily on the NSF grant to a project led by UCI's Sharad Mehrotra and UCSD's Ramesh Rao, division director of Calit2. The system being planned "will help agencies communicate and share information quickly in an emergency crisis," he reports.

NSF Awards $12.5 Million to Calit2
T Sector Online, October 10, 2003
The technology news service reports that "Calit2 provided the seed money for the project" prior to NSF funding. The article also notes that the funds will be managed by the institute, with "$9 million [going] to UC Irvine and $3.5 million to UC San Diego."

"Daily Business Report"
San Diego Metropolitan, October 10, 2003
In its online version, the publication notes that UCSD researchers will get over $14 million from the NSF to fund information-technology research projects on the campus. Some $3.5 million of the total will go to research led by Calit2 division director Ramesh Rao for a joint project with UC Irvine on IT for emergency response.

UCI Lures Michigan Prof
Orange County Business Journal, October 6, 2003
In the October 6 issue of the Orange County Business Journal, technology reporter Andrew Simons writes about UCI hiring Albert Yee as director of California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. Simons says that Dr. Yee is the second professor UCI has hired away from University of Michigan, a top 20 engineering school.
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'Bio-Slime,' the Latest Theory on Pollution, Oozes Intrigue
Los Angeles Times, October 5, 2003
Huntington Beach and Newport Beach are ground zero for these efforts," said Stanley B. Grant, professor of environmental engineering and chairman of the department of chemical engineering and materials science at UC Irvine. Grant conducted several studies on the bacteria problem, including an examination of the bacterial flushing from Talbert Marsh, a reclaimed wetlands area along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach that drains into the ocean. "We know there is no natural source," he said. "Weird things happen and you don't understand why." *Registration Required*

NSF awards $12.5M for first responders
Washington Technology, October 2, 2003
The National Science Foundation will award $9 million to the University of California's Irvine campus, and $3.5 million to the San Diego campus to develop information sharing tools and organizational strategies for first responders.

Talk of the Nation interviews CNSI member Jim Gimzewski about the future of Nanosystems.
National Public Radio, September 26, 2003
Get the transcript under "Nanotechnology" on the NPR site.

Calit2 showcased in daylong conference
Daily Transcript, September 25, 2003
In the daily newspaper's lead story, technology writer Jennifer McEntee reports that "a bird's eye view of the new [Calit2] facility was part of a daylong open house, expo and conference at the UCSD campus... By the end of 2004 or beginning of 2005, it will be a 220,000-square-foot research space featuring clean room environments, a wireless laboratory and media labs." Quoted are institute director Larry Smarr, division director Ramesh Rao, and Jacobs School dean Frieder Seible. *Subscribers only*

Rep. Chris Cox Announces $9 Million to UCI
Commends University on Urban Crisis Work
News From U.S Rep. Christopher Cox, September 25, 2003
Rep. Christopher Cox, Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and House Policy Committee Chairman, announced today that the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is the recipient of a five-year, $9 million National Science Foundation grant to promote homeland security.

Robotic Invasion: Sophisticated robots are on the verge of changing our world
Oakland Tribune, September 21, 2003

CITRIS helping solve society's problems
BizInk, September 19, 2003

UCI Researcher Gets $12-Million Science Grant
LA Times, September 18, 2003
LA Times Staff Writer Claire Luna covers the NSF award in today's Orange County section interviewing UCI professor Sharad Mehrotra and the head of NSF's computer and information science and engineering team."
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Technology to the rescue at UCI
Orange County Register, September 18, 2003
Marla Jo Fisher reports on Cal-(IT) at UCI receiving one of NSF's largest collaborative research awards in the amount of $12.5 million, for a five-year project to develop new methods for collecting, analyzing and disseminating disaster data to decision makers and the public."

The eyes have it
Federal Computer Week, September 11, 2003
Writer Heather Havenstein reports in the publication's Aug. 25 edition on renewed interest in video technology for surveillance and first responders. UCSD professor [and Calit2 layer leader] Mohan Trivedi "is spearheading research funded by the Defense Department to study Distributed Interactive Video Arrays, a system linking multiple cameras that track people or objects as they move." Trivedi is also reported as saying that "digital video is ideally suited for first responders because it can provide multiple views of a situation."

Neil Morgan
San Diego Union-Tribune, September 8, 2003
In his Sunday column, Morgan reports that "it's not a trade show but an all-day paean to the evolution of information technology: On Sept. 24 at Price Center, Larry Smarr's UCSD division of Calit2 unfurls its latest Unbelievables."

Conference Features Cal IT Successes
San Diego Business Journal, September 3, 2003
In its Sept. 1 edition, the weekly reports that "the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UCSD will showcase its research at an all-day conference and open house in late September... More than two dozen UCSD faculty will make presentations on current and future technology."
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Wireless 101: Tech companies put money in academic research
Daily Transcript, September 3, 2003
Technology writer Jennifer McEntee reports on eight new projects funded by members of UCSD's Center for Wireless Communications and the UC Discovery Grant program. CWC director Lawrence Larson is quoted as saying "corporate sponsors are looking for products they can commercialize and students they can groom for the future tech work force."
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$1.8 million grant awarded for grid network
The Daily Transcript, September 2, 2003
The newspaper notes that Calit2 is participating in a new project called FWGrid, funded by NSF with $1.8 million "to implement an advanced computer and telecommunications network" in UCSD's new Computer Science and Engineering building, which is now under construction. CSE professor and FWGrid principal investigator Andrew Chien is quoted.
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Video Games Now a Degree
United Press International, September 2, 2003
The study of video games -- combining computer science, art, and sociology -- is often masked by euphemisms such as "interactive media" or "digital arts."

Professor Victoria Vesna interviewed in this article: "In the Future, Every Molecule Will Have 15 Minutes of Fame."
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Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2003

Off to college to major in ... video games?
The Christian Science Monitor, August 29, 2003
Celia Pearce of Calit2 new media arts layer comments on video games as a new college major in the Christian Science Monitor.

Army Research Office Awards up to $50 Million To UCSB-Led Partnership to Establish Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
ICB Press Release, August 27, 2003

Making a Case for San Diego's Military Economy
San Diego Business Journal, August 26, 2003
"Down the Road, Portable Power; Hydrogen hailed as fuel source of the future" In an Op-Ed piece, Julie Meier Wright and William J. Cassidy Jr. argue that California and San Diego have put in place "critical investments that will enable us to maintain that leadership, from Calit2, to the [San Diego] Supercomputer Center, to Irwin and Joan Jacobs' major gift to the UC San Diego School of Engineering."
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UCI Lands Darpa Grant for Nanotechnology Study
Orange County Business Journal, August 25, 2003
UCI researchers, affiliated with Calit2, received a $300,000 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) to research nanotechnology for wireless communications.
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NSF Awards New Grants to Study Societal Implications of Nanotechnology
NSF Press Release, August 25, 2003

Remote possibilities grow with redwoods
Tiny sensors a huge help in tracking trees' progress
SFGate.com, August 18, 2003

Can Grand Theft Auto Inspire Professors?
The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 15, 2003
Celia Pearce, new media arts layer, suggests that professors learn to use games to their advantage in the Chronicle of Higher Education story...

CNSI building architecture is highlighted in this article: "Would You Work Here? - The architects behind a new generation of laboratories believe their designs can stimulate good science. Laura Bonetta finds out how, and looks at research that may one day help to test their claims.
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Nature Magazine, August 14, 2003

GOV. Gray Davis (D), touts CITRIS Smart Dust technology on Larry King Live
Larry King Live Transcript, August 14, 2003

Tiny sensors offer a treasure of data
Mercury News, August 12, 2003
In the hushed shade of a Berkeley hillside, the redwoods are starting to give up their secrets. They speak of how hot the sun feels on their crowns, and how cool and moist the air stirs in the deep shade beneath their branches. The information flows into dozens of small sensors that stud the trees from top to bottom. Each is connected to a computer, a radio and a battery, all in a space the size of a film canister. They broadcast a continual stream of information about temperature, humidity and lighting, giving scientists their first detailed look at the world from a redwood's point of view.

Down the Road, Portable Power; Hydrogen hailed as fuel source of the future
Newsday.com, August 10, 2003
Down the Road, Portable Power; Hydrogen hailed as fuel source of the future" Since then, "it's been a frenzy, or you could call it a stampede," said Scott Samuelsen, director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine.

eHelp Corp. Launches $12 Million Software Donation Program to Colleges and Universities Across the Nation
CSRwire.com, August 5, 2003
The Web version of Corporate Social Responsibility news service reports that "eHelp(TM) Corp., the makers of RoboHelp(R), announced the commencement of its Academic Software Donation Program, committing a total of $12,000,000 worth in RoboDemo(R) eLearning Edition tutorial software to accredited colleges and universities." The first recipient is UCSD's Sixth College, through Calit2, and Sixth provost Gabriele Wienhausen is quoted as calling RoboDemo "a tremendously valuable program."

Pushing the Edge
Today @ UCI, August 4, 2003
Interviewed in Today@UCI, Calit2's New Media Arts Layer Leader at UCI, Simon Penny, believes society is on the edge of a change as resounding as the Industrial Revolution. He sees the emergence of a digital culture that blends art and technology into new social practices only now being imagined by Penny and others in his field.

CITRIS researchers participate in PlanetLab, a global test bed for inventing and testing prototype Internet applications and services.
CRN, August 1, 2003

CITRIS researchers use wireless sensors to collect tree data
The Associated Press, July 29, 2003
Some high-growing redwoods are going high-tech as researchers turn to wireless sensors to help them monitor tree data.

Frontier Life #2: Sheldon Brown
Joystick101.org, July 21, 2003
Calit2's New Media Arts Layer Leader, Sheldon Brown, discusses his fascination with games and how they influence his artwork in an interview with Joystick101.org.

Ninth and Tenth Grade L.A. Science Teachers Come to UCLA to Learn to Teach Nanoscience, New Experiments in their Classrooms
UCLA News, July 21, 2003

Exploding Universe Of Web Addresses
New York Times, July 17, 2003
In the newspaper's weekly Circuits section, Jeffrey Selingo reports on efforts to update the system of Internet Protocol addresses now that "new technology is draining the stockpile" of addresses. He reports on the recent IPv6 global summit co-sponsored by Calit2, and quotes director and Jacobs School computer science and engineering professor Larry Smarr as well as Calit2 Scholar Alex Lightman, who organized the conference. (registration required)

Teaching Computers to Work in Unison
New York Times, July 15, 2003
Technology writer Steve Lohr reports on the origins of Grid computing at a 1995 supercomputing conference in San Diego, and quotes Calit2 director and CSE professor Larry Smarr as recalling it "was the Woodstock of the grid — everyone not sleeping for three days, running around and engaged in a kind of scientific performance art." Also quoted: UCSD neuroscientist Mark Ellisman, director of the Biomedical Informatics Research Network, who says that "we're helping a scientific community to understand that it does more good to make information more generally accessible than squirreling it away. (registration required)

Military Campaigns for New Net
Investor's Business Daily, July 10,2003
Technology writer Donna Howell reports on Pentagon plans for rapid deployment of the next generation of Internet protocols -- IPv6 -- and quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr as saying "I think you're going to see IPv6 adopted faster than some people thought it would be." Also quoted: Calit2 Scholar Alex Lightman, who organized the recent IPv6 Global Summit co-sponsored by the institute in San Diego.

New electronic 'sky walls' for airliners
The Washington Times, July 8, 2003
A new combination of global positioning system software and modifications to avionics could make it impossible for airliners to breech no-fly zones.

Cameras find face in a crowd
La Jolla Village News, July 7, 2003
Brett Hanavan Baldridge reports that in the wake of increased security concerns, UCSD scientists led by Jacobs School professor Mohan Trivedi "are developing an automated system to detect and track faces in a crowd, and to better monitor large areas where people gather and areas sensitive to intrusion." Funding for the study comes from a federal agency, The Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) under the Department of Defense.

netBeans.org, July 2, 2003
Game Culture & Technology Lab Associate Director for Research Walt Scacchi is featured in story about approaches for discovering free/open source software development processes in projects like NetBeans.

Pentagon gives high-tech world new marching orders
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 26, 2003
Technology writer Bruce Bigelow reports from the Calit2-sponsored IPv6 Global Summit in San Diego, that "the Department of Defense has moved to reassert its enormous influence in the development of information technologies" by throwing its weight behind the new Internet Protocol version 6. Calit2 director Larry Smarr is quoted as saying the Pentagon announcement is "a real wake-up call for every U.S. vendor that sells to the DOD."

Intel, universities create world network
New York Times, June 25, 2003
CITRIS Researcher David Culler participates in project to create global network (registration required)

TeraGrid Project Begins Accepting Computing Proposals
PARTNER PRESS RELEASE, June 23, 2003
Researchers across the U.S. will be able to submit proposals for use of the first computing systems of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project beginning June 15.

UCLA Physicists Create Single Molecule Nanoscale Sensor; Possible Applications for Medicine, Biotechnology, Detecting Biological Weapons
UCLA News, June 19, 2003
The research of Giovanni Zocchi, assistant professor of physics at UCLA and member of the California NanoSystems Institute is highlighted in this article:

Technology
Washington Times, June 19, 2003
In his June 19 tech column, Fred Reed reports that there is big money in anti-terrorism, including federal grants for research. He notes that the Pentagon "has given a contract to the Computer Vision and Robotics Research Laboratory at the University of California at San Diego to develop... interlinked cameras, connected to computers, [that] would recognize suspicious activity, like a car stopping by the fence surrounding a sensitive installation."

Start-up Happy to Roll Out Router After Tech Implosion
Dallas Morning News, June 18, 2003
Writer Vikas Bajaj reports on the first deployments of Dallas-based Chiaro Networks' Enstara router, noting that "researchers at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology are using the router to study what new applications could be created if networks had many times their current capacity." Speaking for Calit2, SDSC's Phil Papadopoulos calls the router "an extremely flexible system for us to undertake our research objective." *Registration Required*

UCI Students Put Their Game Faces On
LATimes.com, June 18, 2003
Christine Carrillo of the Daily Pilot reports from Irvine on computer science students showing "their work -- videogames." Students of Information and Computer Science professor Dan Frost, a Calit2 academic participant, developed their own videogames during a 10-week course.

The Camera Eye
San Diego Business Journal, June 10, 2003
In its high-tech news section, the weekly reports that "UC San Diego has an 18-month, $600,000 anti-terror grant from the federal government to develop an automated system for detecting and tracking faces in a crowd." Mohan Trivedi, a professor at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering, leads the research team. *Subscribers only*

He sees IT coming
Mizzou, June 9, 2003
In the cover story of Mizzou's summer edition, the magazine of the University of Missouri Alumni Association profiles Calit2 director Larry Smarr, an alumnus who is "behind the scenes, ahead of the pack" and helping "set high-tech's learning curve." Smarr received both his AB and MS from the university.

UCSD gets $5 million grant
Daily Transcript, June 6, 2003
The newspaper reports on the $5 million grant to the UCSD Stroke Center, Jacobs School and Calit2, which will allow physicians to "utilize a new ultrasound-screening tool and provide remote consultations via wireless technology, in an effort to increase the number of stroke patients receiving more timely treatment." *Subscribers only*

CITRIS researcher Hal Varian examines deflation in today's economy for the New York Times
June 5, 2003 (registration required)

Lab to develop security systems
UCSD Guardian, June 5, 2003
Staff writer Melissa Baniqued reports on the $600,000 award to UCSD's Computer Vision and Robotics Research laboratory "to continue developing technology for an automated system designed to fight terrorism by detecting and tracking faces in a crowd." The principal investigator on the project is Calit2 layer leader Mohan Trivedi.

Smart Cams Take Aim at Terrorists
Wired News, June 4, 2003
Writer Kari Dean reports on distributed digital video arrays (DIVAs) being developed by Calit2 transportation layer leader Mohan Trivedi, at UCSD, who recently was awarded a $600,000 grant from a Defense Department working group "for further development of DIVAs, cameras that see, think and communicate."

CITRIS spearheads project to develop Iraq 'virtual heritage' archive
June 3, 2003

In Computing, Weighing Sheer Power Against Vast Pools of Data
New York Times, June 2, 2003
Technology writer John Markoff reports on a new push to shift the focus of supercomputing centers from computing, to data storage, and quotes Calit2 director and CSE professor Larry Smarr as agreeing with the basic thesis and saying that rapidly increasing network speeds would make it possible to increasingly distribute computing tasks. *Registration required*

Five Questions: Bill Gates
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 2, 2003
In its regular Monday Q&A column, the newspaper quotes Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' responses to questions from students at the Jacobs School and UCSD's charter Preuss School, covering subjects ranging from "his taste in music; how well he knows Mircosoft's products; what we can expect from the next version of Windows; and what matters most to him in life."

Berkeley Plans to Revive Looted Museum on Web
LA Times, June 2, 2003
Galvanized by the ransacking of Iraq's National Museum, computer scientists, archeologists and art historians at UC Berkeley are hatching a plan to help the museum — and the war-scarred nation — resurrect at least some of what was lost. (Registration Required). Project prototype is available at: www.ecai.org/iraq.

Microbes engineered to create malaria drug
Associated Press, June 1, 2003
Genetic engineers in Northern California say they're close to perfecting a new biotechnology recipe of an ancient Chinese remedy for malaria. The researchers at UC Berkeley aim to inexpensively manufacture the malaria fighter in E. coli bacteria, rather than finely grinding the wormwood plant to extract the remedy artemisinin as Chinese herbalists do now.

Engineering a mevalonate pathway in Escherichia coli for production of terpenoids
Nature Biotechnology, June 1, 2003
Isoprenoids are the most numerous and structurally diverse family of natural products. Terpenoids, a class of isoprenoids often isolated from plants, are used as commercial flavor and fragrance compounds and antimalarial or anticancer drugs.

Berkeley fuses biotech, engineering
SF Chronicle, June 1, 2003
The biotech industry may be stalled in the test tube, but that doesn't mean the university-industrial complex is standing idle. UC Berkeley broke ground last Friday on the $162 million Stanley Bioscience and Bioengineering Facility, a humongous research and teaching building scheduled to open in 2006.

Davis hopes research center will find AIDS cure
Oakland Tribune, May 31, 2003
Gov. Gray Davis and University of California President Richard Atkinson tossed up the first clods of dirt Friday on a project at UC Berkeley that both predicted will help boost California's economy in the decades ahead and offer great hope for breakthroughs in disease and human health. The occasion marked the groundbreaking for a new building -- to be called the Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Facility. It replaces the old Stanley Hall, immediately across Gayley Road from the Greek Theater.

A "field of dreams" for health sciences
UC Berkeley News, May 30, 2003
Build it and they will come, says Gov. Gray Davis at groundbreaking for new facility that's already luring the nation's top researchers. When completed in 2006, the new Stanley facility will house all of QB3's researchers, as well as labs for the College of Engineering's bioengineering department and CITRIS, which also has space in the recently renovated Hearst Memorial Mining Building.

Gates has praise for university research model
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 28, 2003
In his column, Neil Morgan reports that Bill Gates told some 1,500 UCSD students that Microsoft uses university research as a model "instead of the corporate model... We felt the best way to expand the state of the art is to hire great researchers and give them the freedom to innovate with a minimum of bureaucracy." He also noted that before the student forum, Gates met with Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr, who -- along with former SDSC director Sid Karin -- "prodded the National Science Foundation into creation of the first supercomputer centers in 1985."

Gates: Best of computing is yet to come
The Daily Transcript, May 28, 2003
Technology writer Jennifer McEntee reports on Bill Gates' speech to UCSD students and the question-and-answer session, with Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr posing questions from students. She quotes Gates as predicting "the really interesting software is the software that will be written in the next decade. This is not a mature science." *Subscribers only*

CRA Distinguished Service Award 2003
presented to Ruzena Bajcsy
CRA, May 2003

Higher Degrees of University Relations
AT&T Research News, May 20, 2003
For a recent piece on its website, AT&T Research showcased the beginning of a new relationship with universities, "and the first program to get up and running is with the UCSD." According to the release, "First, it will support faculty and graduate-level research that leads to innovations in the area of IP measurement for network reliability. Second, it will generate collaborations between UCSD and AT&T researchers, through working with students and participating in annual "retreats" to present and discuss research results. And third, it will result in an internship program for UCSD students to work at AT&T Labs."

Microcosmos
Wired Magazine, May 14, 2003
In a bylined article for the June 2003 issue, CSE professor and Calit2 director Larry Smarr writes about nanospace as "the new space race... the battle for more and more control over less and less." "I have seen the future, and it is small," he writes, and concludes that the scientists and engineers working in the nano arena of the future will be "masters of bioinfonanotech."

The E-Biz Surprise
Business Week Online, May 12, 2003
CITRIS researchers' Smart Dust project plays role in keeping e-commerce hot (registration required)

CITRIS researcher, David A. Patterson and CITRIS Director, Ruzena Bajcsy appointed to the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee
May 8, 2003

Biologist as watchmaker, cells as parts
The Christian Science Monitor, May 8, 2003
Michael Phelps, chair of the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA, comments in today's Christian Science Monitor in an article about technology that allows researchers to produce full genome sequences for viruses like SARS.

Academy of Arts & Sciences elects 2 from QB3
May 6, 2003
UCB press release - Two QB3 scientists have been honored by election to the Academy of Arts and Sciences: Jennifer Doudna, professor of molecular and cell biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator; and Carolyn R. Bertozzi, professor of chemistry and of molecular and cell biology, a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Tour of the city
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 5, 2003
In his Sunday column, Neil Morgan notes that Microsoft founder Bill Gates will give a lunchtime talk at UCSD's Price Center on May 27, hosted by Calit2 director Larry Smarr. Morgan notes that when Gates was asked whether he wanted to see Smarr's bio, the email response was: "Don't bother. Everybody here knows about Larry Smarr."

UCLA Electrical Engineering Professor Elected to National Academy of Sciences
UCLA News, May 2, 2003
Eli Yablonovitch, professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. The election, which took place April 29, marks the first time someone from UCLA's engineering school has become a member.

A Shot at a New Drug-Delivery System
May 2003
Lab Notes - Bioengineering professor Dorian Liepmann and post-doctoral researcher Boris Stoeber have developed a microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS) syringe, the size of a fingernail.

Six Technologies That Will Change the World
Business 2.0, May 2003
CITRIS researcher's work with smart dust motes touted as one of Six Technologies That Will Change the World.

Anticipating the Next Technological Revolution
InterAct, April 30, 2003
In a feature showcasing various Calit2 projects and "the convergence of wireless and broadband," the quarterly publication of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) quotes institute director Larry Smarr and other researchers. (Smarr delivered the keynote address to CENIC's annual meeting in 2002.) Also in this issue: features on two other California Institutes for Science and Innovation (CITRIS and QB3), and a cover story on a breakthrough in 3-D imaging at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

10th anniversary of Mosaic browser marked
Associated Press, April 28, 2003
As posted in the online magazine Salon.com, AP reporter Jim Paul quotes Calit2 director Larry Smarr on the impact the Mosaic web browser had on the Internet. "It was an accelerator for the whole Internet," said Smarr, the former director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where Mosaic was developed.

Digital renaissance transforming art
San Diego Union Tribune, April 28, 2003
Writer Sherry Parmet reports on moves by local colleges and high schools to teach computerized art, and quotes UCSD professor Sheldon Brown as saying "artists were some of the first people to jump onto the Internet." Brown is the director of UCSD's Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), and leads Calit2's New Media Arts layer at the university.

Media combine in kids' minds
San Jose Mercury News, April 24, 2003
Technology writer Dawn Chmielewski interviewed Calit2 New Media Arts layer leader Sheldon Brown for a story about the convergence of consumer electronics and technology industries as today's 'digital kids' become the next target market for interactive entertainment. Brown is also director of UCSD's Center for Research in Computing and the Arts.

Mosaic started Web rush, Internet boom
The News-Gazette (Urbana-Champaign, IL), April 22, 2003
Writer Greg Kline looks back at the development of Mosaic, the first Web browser, ten years ago, at the University of Illinois supercomputing center. The story quotes then-NCSA director [and now Calit2 director] Larry Smarr.

Future Web likely to be smarter, smaller and more interactive
The News-Gazette (Urbana-Champaign, IL), April 22, 2003
In part two of his special report, Greg Kline looks at the future of the Internet on Mosaic's 10th anniversary, quoting Calit2 director Larry Smarr as comparing the current state of things on a level with the development of the automobile before the highway system. "It takes decades to really build out a national, in this case a global, infrastructure," he said.

Chien Discusses Smarr's OptIPuter
GRIDtoday, April 21, 2003
GRIDtoday correspondent Neil Alger spoke recently with Dr. Andrew Chien, chief software architect for the Calit2-led OptIPuter project.

What Is It Like To Be a Fish?
LA Weekly, April 11 -17, 2003
"Body Electric", by UC Irvine's Simon Penny and Malcolm MacIver of Caltech, is featured as one of six installations in "Neuro", an art and science collaboration about how organisms and devices interact with their environments. The exhibit is jointly organized by the Center for Neuromoprhic Systems Engineering at Caltech and the Art Center College of Design. Penny is the Layer Leader for the New Media Arts in the Irvine Division of Calit2.

Smart Dust & Quake-Proofing Buildings
The Science Show (Australia), April 11, 2003
In its April 5 edition, Australia's premier radio program about science profiles two Calit2-related projects. Host Robyn Williams interviews biochemistry professor Michael Sailor about smart dust -- tiny silicon sensors. (Transcript). Williams also talks with Jacobs School dean Frieder Seible [co-chair of Calit2's Governing Board] about new technologies to test and retrofit buildings to better withstand earthquakes and bomb blasts. (Transcript) (RealPlayer required).

In Vintage Maps, a Japan Bygone Floats Lyrically Online
New York Times, April 10, 2003
One of the world's largest collections of rare, historical Japanese maps is digitized and posted online (registration required).

The fall of Stanley Hall
Berkeleyan, April 9, 2003
Berkeleyan - Demolition shifted into high gear on April 3. A brand-new building will rise on the same site: a seismically safe structure that will become the UC Berkeley center of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research — aka QB3.

'Heart' of SAIC reveals plans to step down
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 9, 2003
In a report on the planned retire