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Calit2, 2009-present

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At UCSD I am a Principal Investigator at Calit2 (the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology). Founded in 2000, Calit2 is one of the premier applied research institutes in the application of supercomputing and very-large scale data visualization across the sciences, humanities and social sciences.

?CALIT2 represents a new mechanism to address large-scale societal issues by
bringing together multidisciplinary teams of the best minds.? --Larry Smarr,
Director, CALIT2



DPP is headquartered at the UC?s California Institute for Telecommunications and
Information Technology. Opened in 2006, CALIT2 is one of four Institutes of 
Science and Innovation, and focuses on interdisciplinary research in information,
telecommunication and computing technologies.
Key research platforms include cyberinfrastrucure, Green ICT, supercomputing
applications, cloud computing platforms, smart transportation, optiputer
architectures, computational meta-genomics, biological microelectronics and
mechanical systems, machine perception, nanoengineering, information and 
network theory, photonics and ultrafast wireless communication.

CALIT2 is located in two complexes, one on the campus of UC San Diego and the 
other at UC Irvine. Our facilities include a 4k (4XHD) theater with optical data
networking for global multicasting, StarCAVE room-size immersive display,
HiPerWall half-gigapixel addressable matrix display system, nanoengineering and
fabrication clean rooms, dedicated local area ultrafast wireless testing, and
several globally distributed optiputer nodes and systems.

Increasingly, even in the most largest companies, core research and development 
is being eliminated. Real R&D that asks difficult questions, spends sufficient time
and resources to model answers to them, is just too risky and too expensive to
survive the budgetary processes. And yet, in the long run, it is the economies that
can solve the innovator?s dilemma on a policy level and that can bring core
technologies to public service that will thrive as vendors and innovators of
emergent technologies.

Part of the solution to this dilemma is world-class public R&D. Publicly funded,
public focused, publicly accountable. To develop direct scalable knowledge bases 
from which industries large and small can develop inventions and services becomes 
the seedbeed from which common wealth can grow.
Toward this CALIT2 Calit2 represents an experiment in inventing the university
research environment of the future to continue to fuel innovation in the global
economy. It Builds horizontal links among departments to foster multidisciplinary
studies, by creating research teams consisting of members who can be located
anywhere because of the Internet, by supporting involvement by faculty, students,
industry, government, and community partners, by enabling prototyping in Calit2
"living laboratories, and by providing technical professionals as the bridge between
academia and industry

See www.calit2.net

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Published: 07.09.2010

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