August 22, 2014 – Professor Mark Warschauer has one foot firmly planted in the world of education and the other in information technology. In addition to academic appointments in both UC Irvine schools, he serves as associate dean of the School of Education and directs its Digit

August 15, 2014 – Can technology benefit those with autism? UCI professor Gillian Hayes thinks it can and does. Hayes, whose primary academic appointment is in informatics (she also has appointments in education and pediatrics) told this week’s SURF-IT seminar series lunchtime a

August 01, 2014 – For some, it was a terrifying first experience; for others, the repetition of a task they’d faced before. But for all 10 of this year’s SURF-IT undergraduate students, who this week presented their research progress to-date, it was a practice session designed t

July 17, 2014 – The technology-in-medicine theme begun last week by Dr. Warren Wiechmann continued this week with Tuesday’s SURF-IT symposium, which featured Julie Youm, research director of instructional technologies at UCI’s School of Medicine. Youm is testing the school’s iMe

July 11, 2014 – Modern medicine is an anomaly when it comes to technology. Doctors conduct minimally invasive surgeries from remote locations using robots, but most offices and clinics have no online presence for patients to make appointments, ask follow-up questions or check te

July 03, 2014 – This summer’s 10 SURF-IT Fellows got an inside look at the life and research efforts of one of the program’s mentors this week during SURF-IT’s first lunchtime seminar. Postdoc researcher Birgit Penzenstadler works with computer science professors Bill Tomlinson

June 26, 2014 – Another season of undergraduate research is now officially underway at CALIT2. The 10th consecutive Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology (SURF-IT) program kicked off yesterday with a lunchtime orientation session. SURF-IT, co-sponsor

June 16, 2014 – Design. Test. Adapt. Repeat. For many years, trial and error guided product development. Engineers designed on paper, built a prototype, tested it in the lab, and made changes based on test results. They repeated the process an untold number of times, until the p

June 11, 2014 – It’s almost summer, and at CALIT2, that means jumping into the SURF-IT. For the 10th consecutive year, the institute’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology is poised to immerse a group of high-achieving undergraduates in mentor-guide

June 10, 2014 – CALIT2 academic affiliate Gillian Hayes, associate professor of informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, has been named the first holder of the Robert A. and Barbara L. Kleist Chair in Informatics. The Regents of the University