SURF-IT: Medicine in the Digital Age

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
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SURF-IT Week One: Research Rocks!

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
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Ten (Students) for Ten (Weeks)

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
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Donation Expands Simulation Opportunity

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
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SURF-IT Students Selected

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
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Hayes Named First Kleist Chair

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
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Uniting for Innovation

June 05, 2014 – Innovation and entrepreneurship: oft-mentioned buzzwords, heard more and more frequently in university settings. UC Irvine is no exception and with good reason. Ongoing programs, new campus-wide initiatives and last week, a standing-room only crowd at CALIT2’s Ig
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Business Schooling

May 30, 2014 – Orange County business icon Donald Beall held an informal advice session with about 75 UC Irvine Multidisciplinary Design Program students and faculty last week in the CALIT2 auditorium. The entrepreneur, philanthropist and retired Rockwell chairman/CEO urged the
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Hooray for Hollywood

May 30, 2014 – Designing an iPad game that teaches children the basics of the human digestive system doesn’t sound terribly glamorous. But for Cathy Tran, a UC Irvine fourth-year doctoral student in the School of Education, who leads the project under the auspices of UCI’s Multi
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Workshop Plugs Energy Efficiency

May 16, 2014 – The California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) this week hosted its fifth in a series of workshops at CALIT2. Like its predecessors, this daylong event aimed to unite academia, business, government agencies, utilities and other stakeholders in the pursuit of e
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