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June 26, 2019 – When the classically trained violinist Mari Kimura plays her instrument these days, her masterful bow hand creates sound from two sources: an acoustic violin, and a wireless motion-sensor device known as MUGIC™. Kimura’s concept of using a motion sensor for perfo

June 06, 2019 – The CALIT2 Advisory Board met on June 3 and 4 at CALIT2 UC Irvine for its semi-annual meeting. The 16-person board holds one meeting each January by teleconference. A second meeting,  held at mid-year, alternates between the UC San Diego and UC Irvine CALIT2 faci

May 21, 2019 – Student-fellows from the 2018-2019 Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP) met Saturday, May 11, to present their design projects at a symposium held in the CALIT2 auditorium. The students had been selected to work on 12 creative research projects mentored by facul

May 21, 2019 – CALIT2’s Cool Campus Challenge student team scored a first place finish in this year’s UC-wide, sustainability-focused contest. The Cool Campus Challenge is an annual 4-week compition designed to educate and motivate the University of California campus community t

May 10, 2019 – The California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug) hosted its thirteenth semiannual workshop, April 30 at CALIT2. The center, located at CALIT2, was established in 2011 to improve energy efficiency in the use and design of appliances and consumer electronic device

April 24, 2019 –  A not-so long time ago, at a campus not-so-far away, Alon Gorodetsky, UCI associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, developed materials that have the ability to revolutionize infrared camouflage and thermal management. Simply put, Gorodetsky

March 25, 2019 –    Marco Levorato has spent the last decade painstakingly reconnecting with his past. In the process, he has constructed a clearer path to his future. Born to a furniture-store owner and a homemaker in Dolo, Italy, a small town near Venice, Levorato, UC Irv

April 24, 2019 –  The most commonly used method for studying cells is effective, but not as efficient as it could be, as cells are typically destroyed in the classification process. This makes it difficult to study live cells after they have been classified. CBio, a current Tech

March 18, 2019 – Much of the credit for the modern internet must go to Vinton Cerf. In 1974, Cerf, along with fellow engineer Bob Kahn, designed the first internetwork protocol – a means of communications that allowed different types of pre-internet networks to communicate with

February 25, 2019 – The green revolution that is sweeping California has skipped past the oak view neighborhood in Huntington Beach. UC Irvine’s Advanced Power and Energy Program wants to help change that and, in the process, conduct some important research. That’s why Jack Brou

February 25, 2019 – Innovators, entrepreneurs, members of academia, and industry professionals interested in bringing new technology to the medical device market met Feb. 4 at CALIT2 for the 5th Annual International Symposium on Technology for Biomedical Devices. The event began

Former CALIT2 TechPortal occupants founded a company that makes products to help survivors recover from stroke.