November 24, 2014 – A couple of years ago, when global politics sent gasoline prices racing towards $5 per gallon, drivers made a conscious effort to reduce consumption. They consolidated errands, eliminated or reduced road trips, carpooled and even traded in gas guzzlers for mo

November 24, 2014 – The loud buzz coming from the CALIT2 Auditorium on Nov. 13 was another standing-room-only Igniting Technology presentation, one that spotlighted a most au courant topic: the Internet of Things and its potential to change the world. Now concluding its ninth ye

November 24, 2014 – Sung-Jin Kim may have majored in math as a university undergraduate, but even he couldn’t have calculated the way his experiences would add up. Arriving at UC Irvine in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree from Korea University and a master’s from the University of

November 17, 2014 – When the California Plug Load Research Center opened at CALIT2 in 2012, its mandate was to unite researchers, utilities, manufacturers, nonprofits and policy makers in pursuit of improved energy efficiency in the rapidly expanding plug load sector. This month

November 14, 2014 – In the United States, women hold fewer than 25 percent of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) jobs, even though they comprise 57 percent of the work force. At UC Irvine, efforts are underway to render those statistics obsolete. A group of first-y

November 05, 2014 – Throughout the four-story CALIT2 Building – and the institute’s history on the UC Irvine campus, for that matter – runs a recurring and very active mandate: develop and integrate communication technology into devices and applications for improving the way we

November 03, 2014 – Mentioning STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – to middle-school students as potential fields of study might inspire glazed looks of utter indifference.  But showing them technology up close and personal, and demonstrating the ways it enr

October 29, 2014 – A pair of studies conducted by the California Plug Load Research Center at CALIT2 and sponsored by the California Energy Commission has yielded some unexpected results. The studies show that computers are not entering sleep mode or automatically turning off as

October 15, 2014 – A group of physicians and administrators from Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles traveled to CALIT2 this week to view projects in the eHealth Collaboratory and discuss potential collaboration with CALIT2 researchers. The meeting was the fourth in a series of

September 30, 2014 – Imagine a ridesharing program that matches up interested parties based not only on where they live and work, but on who is in their own social circle as well. A paper detailing just such a system took a top honor this month at the 2014 ACM International Join