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September 29, 2008 – A recent emergency drill on the UCI campus emptied the CALIT2 Building and neighboring Bren Hall. In reality it was a technology-integration exercise that allowed CALIT2-affiliated researchers to assess developing firefighter-safety systems. Researchers are

September 24, 2008 – Everyone knows money talks. Keith Hart ranks it right up there with language as a conduit for human communication. The professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of London’s Goldsmith’s College delivered the keynote address at “Everyday Digital Mon

September 15, 2008 – Come June, most college students gleefully pack away textbooks and other remnants of the school year while dreaming of fun and sun. Ten undergraduate students, however, spent their summer enhancing their research skills by working with CALIT2-affiliated facu

August 21, 2008 – Jay Lickfett, lead software engineer for CALIT2’s ResCUE project and a principal designer of the project’s Disaster Web Portal, has been recognized by the California Emergency Services Association with its Platinum Award. The award is presented to an individual

July 07, 2008 – The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded a $1 million Fire Prevention and Safety grant to University of California, Irvine researchers. The award is designed to support projects that enhance the safety of the pu

May 23, 2008 – More than 100 guests peeked into the future last week as CALIT2@UCI hosted the “The Bionic Human,” the most recent Igniting Technology event. The Igniting Technology series, sponsored by intellectual property law firm Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, offers at

May 01, 2008 – Most of us can remember a six-digit computer password or even a 10-digit phone number. But give us a string of 100 numbers and the ole memory blows a gasket. A similar – but hugely magnified – dilemma faced UC Irvine researchers Steven G. Potkin and James H. Fallo

April 14, 2008 – Teaching students how to use metaphors is an everyday occurrence in English composition or creative writing instruction. Now scientists believe the descriptive phrases can help students understand and conceptualize scientific material as well, and two CALIT2 res

April 07, 2008 – Grandpa’s radio has grown up. So has its production process. Electronic devices – and lots of other products as well – are becoming increasingly sophisticated. In today’s global economy, the manufacturing supply chains that produce them have become equally compl

April 06, 2008 – The human heart beats 60-80 times per minute. The sustained repetition of the pulse – slowing and speeding synchronously with movement – results in an unrehearsed rhythmic pattern. For electronic artist Byeong Sam Jeon, the heartbeat provides the ideal metaphor

April 05, 2008 – The second graders practicing a line dance or performing a skit certainly are having fun. What they probably don’t realize is that they’re improving their literacy skills at the same time. As they follow their teacher’s directions to reach high, leap sideways or

April 04, 2008 – It’s a far cry from the claw-like apparatus dangling from Capt. Hook’s arm. Today’s technology is making possible innovative aesthetic and functional improvements in prosthetic limbs. A sophisticated prosthetic hand is under development at UCI, part of a nationw