August 29, 2012 – Approximately 7 million people in the United States live with physical impairments caused by stroke. The answer to improving their quality of life could lie in something once considered science fiction: robots. In a talk last week at the final event of the SURF

August 17, 2012 – It’s not news that during the last decade, technology has changed the way we read, write and learn. What interests researchers like UC Irvine education professor Mark Warschauer is how those changes are affecting today’s students. “There are a lot of questions

August 13, 2012 – Imagine a simulator capable of computing the ultimate outcome of all of Earth’s myriad messes – disease propagation, political upheaval, global warming and economic instability, to name a few. A European sociologist has done just that and has asked the European

August 03, 2012 – Halfway through their summer research program, this year’s SURF-IT Fellows presented their mid-term project reports. Before the first of the five-minute updates began, however, SURF-IT co-director Said Shokair asked the students for feedback on the summer