June 2008 Archives
Phil Papadopoulos, Greg Bruno on FLOSS Weekly Podcast
By Doug Ramsey
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Softwhere 2008 Videos Available
By Tiffany Fox
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Virtual wind tunnel at SJTU
By Ramesh Rao
| The Aerospace School at Shanghai Jao Tong is gearing up to help with a massive new government investment of more than $10 Billion in aircraft wing design. The program pulls in people from Instrumentation, Computer Science, Automation and Mechanical Engineering. SJTU is planning to build a virtual wind tunnel to help with this. So far they have three Christies front projecting on a semicircular 10 ft. high wall and another Christie backprojecting on a 6 by 8 Stewart screen. There is a 1 Gbps optical network that threads through the campus and out to parts of greater Shanghai to interconnect their vis node with a supercomputing facility in town and with other parts of campus. Tech support ... |
Will You Take Beans With That Solar Cooker?
By Doug Ramsey
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HIPerWall Displayed at InfoComm '08
By Anna Lynn Spitzer
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A descendent of HIPerWall - Calit2@UCI's 200 million-pixel, high-resolution display wall - traveled to Las Vegas last week to make an appearance at InfoComm 2008. The HIPerWall software was displayed in the Samsung booth at the show, on a wall built of 40 monitors with 46-inch screens. The wall simultaneously displayed four different data sets in high resolution, drawing notice from many of the 30,000-plus people who attended the three-day AV and information technology showcase. |
Calit2 vs. NASA: Whose Viz System is Really Bigger?
By Doug Ramsey
| This week NASA unveiled its second-generation "hyperwall-2", claiming that it's "the world's highest resolution scientific visualization and data exploration environment." Well sorry, that honor goes to the upgraded HIPerSpace wall built at Calit2 on the UCSD campus by prof. Falko Kuester and his team. NASA arrived at its claim because its Hyperwall is bigger than the earlier version of HIPerSpace (220 million pixels of screen resolution). NASA's 128-screen tiled display boasts 250 million pixels. But the new HIPerSpace wall -- which is already operating but won't be formally announced until next week -- can display just over 290 million pixel graphics. The Calit2 system uses fewer ... |
ResponSphere's Davison Prepares to Telecommute
By Anna Lynn Spitzer
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Watching Calit2 on Twitter
By Jerry Sheehan
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It is always very interesting to see how much buzz Calit2 is creating in the social attention sphere. A very popular tool being used by microbloggers is called Twitter. Twitter allows users to post short posts (>145 characters) about what they are doing. |
Talk Posted on SlideShare
By Jerry Sheehan
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Adolpho Muniz Heads to India for CISA3 Ethnographic Research
By Tiffany Fox
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Communicating Science: 2-day Workshop Underway at Calit2
By Doug Ramsey
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Biology Communication Workshop
By Jerry Sheehan(Mobile)
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Arrived in Shanghai
By Ramesh Rao
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And I can roam on to a local CDMA network. Blackberry 8300.
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BBC Feature on Calit2-based RUBI Teaching Robot
By Doug Ramsey
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Bluetooth Demos at UCSD Bookstore (Try Before You Buy!)
By Tiffany Fox
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Here are four good reasons to think about investing in a hands-free mobile device: 1. You have to. As of July 1, all California drivers are required to use a hands-free mobile device while at the wheel. 2. You can participate in a mobile malware study being conducted by Calit2 researchers at UCSD. 3. You can try before you buy. The UCSD Bookstore Computer Center will host Plantronics, makers of Bluetooth, this Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The company will be on hand to display and demo the devices. 4. Consider the alternative (pictured). ... |
Old Quarrelsome couple
By Ramesh Rao
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Uneventful transit through SFO but for a really old, loud and quarrelsome couple and an inventive young Mom who had found a way to strap her infant boy's child seat atop her roll on for a cool new form of transport. Wish I had a camera on my Blackberry |
Irvine Division Director on NSF panel
By Shellie Nazarenus
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G.P. Li is winging his way to the East coast to lend his expertise to an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) preliminary proposal panel. Calling upon his biomedical engineering knowledge, Li is part of a multidisciplinary team of reviewers in the first stage of a two-stage competitive funding process. Li was the first UCI faculty member to receive his own IGERT in the summer of 2005 for his LifeChips program. The review process runs through Friday. |
On my way to Shanghai
By Ramesh Rao
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No surprises so far. Weather to the west looks good.
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Jacobs School PhD Student Turns His Face Into a Remote Control
By Tiffany Fox
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Sorry, couch potatoes - it isn't what you think. PhD student Jacob Whitehill - a member of Calit2-San Diego's Machine Perception Laboratory - has transformed his face into a remote control that slows down or speeds up video playback. The technology is part of a larger project to use automated facial expression recognition to make robots more effective teachers. The work is sponsored in part by Calit2's Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center at UCSD.
Read more about the project or watch a video that shows the technology in action. (Says Whitehill in the video: "In the current day and age of using Botox to improve one's facial ... |
Irvine Undergrad Research Program Kicks Off
By Anna Lynn Spitzer
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Ten UC Irvine undergraduates met each other and SURF-IT program
administrator Stu Ross at the summer undergraduate research program's
Monday orientation. Over pizza and salad, they learned about each
other's research projects as well as the program's expectations. The
students will work with their faculty mentors for 10 weeks and make
formal research presentations on August 29. |
Larry Smarr Gets a Supercomputer of His Own (Sort of)
By Doug Ramsey
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Brent Stirton Talks About Virunga Gorilla Murders on Fresh Air
By Tiffany Fox
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At his lecture at the San Diego division of Calit2 last week, National Geographic's EVP for Mission Programs Terry Garcia told the story of the seven mountain gorillas who were murdered in cold blood last year in Virunga, a National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photojournalist Brent Stirton (pictured) will discuss the murders and the controversy behind them on today's episode of Fresh Air, streaming live on KPBS at 1 p.m. and available for download following the show. |
FY08 Supplemental Funding for American R&D
By Jerry Sheehan
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Research Intel on the Scalable Display Wall
By Jerry Sheehan(Mobile)
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Traveling to Australian-American Leadership Meeting in DC
By Larry Smarr
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Calit2 Assistant Producer/Director Creating 4K Film
By Tiffany Fox
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International Science Grid This Week OptiPuter Coverage
By Jerry Sheehan
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Coverage of Optiputer from TeraGrid '08 Conference |
UCSD Assistant Professors Get Praise, Dollars
By Doug Ramsey
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Several young faculty members affiliated with Calit2 on the UCSD campus are among the 20 recipients of the 2008 Hellman Faculty Fellows Awards, announced June 23. They include (pictured left to right): Morana Alac from Communication; Ricardo Dominguez (Visual Arts); and Curt Schurgers from Electrical and Computer Engineering. The 20 assistant professors will share in $360,000 in the 2008-'09 academic year. The awards are funded by Chris and Warren Hellman to "support the research and creative activities of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their work" -- and to enhance their progress toward tenure. |
Learn Search Tips for Google Scholar
By Tiffany Fox
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UCSD's Biomedical Library hosted a free "Extreme Googling" workshop today that featured some Google Scholar tips Calit2 researchers should find especially helpful: |
Calit2 Visited by MaRS
By Jerry Sheehan
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MaRS is an innovation center connecting science, technology and social entrepreneurs with business skills, networks and capital to stimulate innovation and accelerate the creation and growth of successful Canadian enterprises. The visitors, led by Ross Wallace, Director of Strategic Partnerships for MaRS, were interested in learning more about Calit2's community building efforts and showed potential interest in adopting the Optiportal to foster global scientific collaboration. |
New CineGrid Member Visits Calit2
By Doug Ramsey
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One of the newest members of the Calit2-incubated CineGrid digital cinema consortium, Jeff Brum, took a tour of the institute's cool virtual-reality facilities at UCSD today. |
Jeff's the VP of Marketing and Business Development at the Canadian company National Geographic's Genographic Project
By Tiffany Fox
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Here's your chance to participate in "hands-on" genetic research without even needing a lab coat. The National Geographic Society's "Genographic Project" is a five-year, worldwide effort to chart new knowledge about the human species and where we all came from. Terry Garcia, executive vice president of Mission Programs for the Society, spoke about the program in a lecture he delivered at the Calit2 auditorium earlier this week. He said the general public can participate in the study by purchasing a DNA swab kit from the project's Web site. The results will reveal the migration paths your ancestors followed thousands of years ago, and the proceeds from the kit further field research ... |
Biotechnology Space Research Alliance
By Arindam Ganguly
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Calit2 Mentor Goes the Distance to Help UCSD Students
By Tiffany Fox
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They might not have come away with the prize for best project at the ECE 191 final presentations Friday, but UC San Diego students Alvin Shieh and Bunreth Nhong -- two members of a Calit2-sponsored research group - said they feel honored just to have worked with their mentor, Nandan Das. Das (pictured above, center) is a Calit2-affiliated researcher who coached a total of seven students during the 10-week Engineering Group Design Project course. Das took time out of his busy schedule as a system engineer at ViaSat to work with two teams of students on projects to implement Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) for digital communication systems. Shieh and Nhong, along with fellow student Chang ... |
National Geographic Visits Calit2 in San Diego
By Doug Ramsey
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Pitching OptIPortals at TeraGrid
By Doug Ramsey
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