The e+Society Institute core team posing as a group.

Samueli School’s Engineering+ Society Institute to Focus on AI

July 15, 2025 Samueli School Dean Magnus Egerstedt announced that the Engineering+ Society Institute will focus on “Engineering AI for Society” with Athina Markopoulou as the institute’s inaugural director. Markopoulou is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and
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Researchers Uncover Cell Structures That Squids Use to Change Their Appearance

July 10, 2025 By examining squid skin cells three-dimensionally, a University of California, Irvine-led team has unveiled the structures responsible for the creatures’ ability to dynamically change their appearance from transparent to arbitrarily colored states. The group of scientist
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An AI That’s a Better Friend—And Maybe a Lifeline for Humanity

July 9, 2025 Most AI chatbots feel like a goldfish. You have a conversation, maybe even a deep one, and the next time you interact, it’s as if you never met. No memory, no continuity, just a blank slate. Bill Tomlinson, a professor at UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and
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Fourth Director of CALIT2 Steps into Office

Professor Athina Markopoulou has been selected as the next director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UC Irvine effective July 1.
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A Smartwatch App for Monitoring Intoxication

What if your smartwatch could send an alert when you’ve had too much to drink, warning you not to get behind the wheel of a car and drive? This is exactly the type of application researchers from UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) are working to
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Earth Day Workshop

From heat pump adoption to clean hydrogen to net zero energy accessory dwelling units, the CalPlug/ITAC Earth Day workshop ran the gamut of energy efficiency solutions. The April 22 event grabbed the interest of 60 plus registrants with interactions between the speakers and audience m
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CLL Opening

Last week, a ribbon-cutting ceremony and luncheon celebrated two long-awaited milestones for UC Irvine’s Connected Learning Lab (CLL): approval as a full Organized Research Unit (ORU) and completion of a new 1250 square-foot collaborative workspace in the CALIT2 Building.
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CALIT2 Workshop Explores Quantum Computing Opportunities

Technological changes are coming sooner rather than later, and in the near future, according to the quantum technology education organization called Qureca, society will begin to see the effects of the quantum revolution.
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SMART ITAC Making Progress on Many Fronts

The UC Irvine SMART Industrial Training and Assessment Center has been busy this year.
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CalPlug Workshop Focuses on Clean Energy Equitability and Societal Implications

October brought the 24th installment of the semiannual CalPlug Workshop.
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