Microbiome Connections to the Environment and Health

Oct. 07, 2015 – On Sept. 25, the third annual Microbiome Symposium was held at CALIT2 Irvine. About 80 people attended the all-day event, co-hosted by UCI’s Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, CALIT2 and Initiative for Data Science at UC Irvine. The term “microbiome
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SURF-IoT 2015 Concludes

Aug. 31, 2015 – The 2015 Summer SURF-IoT program concluded Thursday when final presentations were delivered. This was the eleventh consecutive year, the 10-week SURF-IT student summer research program has been held at UC Irvine SURF-IoT – the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow
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Trends in IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems

Aug. 10, 2015 – There are still hurdles, however. “We have closely collaborated with the UCI engineering school, mainly with Professor Gaudiot’s group, to develop cutting-edge technologies on AI and autonomous driving, and we have a series of good results coming out,” says Liu.
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App to improve colorectal cancer screening

Aug. 20, 2015 – Orange County’s life sciences industry has become one of the primary drivers of economic growth in the region. The OC is considered a hub in both the medical device/diagnostics sector and the biopharmaceuticals sector. The device/diagnostics sector has an estimat
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Reducing medication underuse

Aug. 13, 2015 – Intel is in. Apple, Google, Uber and chipmaker Nvidia are on board, too. Now, a company called PerceptIN, founded by an entrepreneur who earned all of his degrees, including a doctorate, from UC Irvine, is competing in Silicon Valley’s hottest race: to develop an
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Viz Lab Displays at Siggraph

Aug. 12, 2015 – A CALIT2 Visualization lab research group is displaying its flexible multi-projector display demonstration at this week’s Siggraph 2015 Emerging Technologies conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The “Multi-Projector Display System of Arbitrary Shape,
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Trends in IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems

Aug. 10, 2015 – Mohammad Al Faruque,  assistant professor in electrical engineering and computer science, and director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab, was the feature presenter at this week’s SURF-IoT research program summer lunchtime seminar series. “Beginning a few years ag
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App Aims to Help Breast Cancer Survivors

Jul. 24. 2015 – Four years ago while pregnant with her third child, Dara Sorkin, an associate professor in UC Irvine’s Department of Medicine, was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. “When you have gestational diabetes, you have to watch your weight gain very carefully. If you
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SURF-IoT Kicks Off Summer Seminar Series

Jul. 08, 2015 – SURF-IoT (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Internet of Things), kicked off its lunchtime seminar series this week with a presentation by SURF-IoT mentor and CALIT2 User Interface Leader Sergio Gago. Eleven students are participating this year in SU
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SURF-IoT 2015 Underway

Jun. 23, 2015 – This year, 11 students were awarded SURF-IoT fellowships. The newly selected fellows had the chance to meet each other and learn more about the current research projects at the program’s orientation lunch Tuesday at CALIT2. SURF-IoT (Summer Undergraduate Re
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