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June 08, 2010 – Nine ambitious undergraduate students have been selected from a pool of 28 applicants as 2010 SURF-IT scholars. The students will spend 10 weeks this summer working side-by-side with faculty mentors and honing their research skills in CALIT2-affiliated labs. SURF

June 03, 2010 – CALIT2 and CITRIS, a fellow science-and-innovation institute, have joined forces with a nonprofit research group to develop a state blueprint for sustainability. Energy, water, health, financial and technology experts from the two Gray Davis Institutes for Scienc

May 24, 2010 – CALIT2’s new TechPortal debuted last week to a record Igniting Technology crowd of nearly 200 would-be entrepreneurs, faculty, venture capitalists and interested community members. The auditorium was filled to capacity, and additional attendees were ushered to an

May 19, 2010 – CALIT2 was well represented at UC Irvine’s “Engage UCI” celebration and awards ceremony earlier this month. The daylong event showcased the university’s community engagement successes and explored new opportunities for campus-community collaborations. It included

May 19, 2010 – Netflix, the popular movie-delivery site, “predicts” films its users may enjoy. The process doesn’t involve mindreading, however; it’s simply computer science. A collaborative filtering system allows Netflix to match users’ viewing and rating histories to others w

May 11, 2010 – As CALIT2’s TechPortal prepared to open its door this month to budding entrepreneurs, UCI Assistant Vice Chancellor Jacob Levin last week shared details about the technology business incubator with an enthusiastic and curious Entrepreneurs Forum audience. Watch vi

May 07, 2010 – From the onset, those who called CALIT2 home knew that when their project’s funding ended, so too did their residency. Space in the building is assigned by project, not by department, and groups aligned with CALIT2’s research interests are given top consideration.

May 06, 2010 – As the moving walkway whisks them though the terminal at Belgium’s Brussels National Airport, travelers wave and gesture at brightly colored renderings of themselves on a 48-ft.-wide display wall. The images wave and gesture back from the bank of monitors mounted

May 06, 2010 – The Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program, administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Technology, stipulates that small technology businesses partner with a research university or other non-profit organization.  CALIT2 has partici

May 05, 2010 – UC Irvine graduate student Jesse Baker had just returned from a grueling nine-month journey to Venezuela. It was his fourth trip in five years to Latin America to research the area’s environmental policies for his doctoral dissertation in the Department of Plannin

May 05, 2010 – Irvine, Calif., May 4, 2010 — In an effort to speed commercialization of university-generated inventions in a moribund economy, UC Irvine is opening a new technology business incubator this week at the campus’s California Institute for Telecommunicatio

May 05, 2010 – “If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s fourth largest,” announces a popular video circulating on YouTube. Titled “Social Media Revolution,” it touts statistics to showcase the growing impact of social media. More and more people are using the vast co