Calit2 : California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Calit2 is taking ideas beyond theory into practice, accelerating innovation and shortening the time to product development and job creation. Where the university traditionally has focused on education and research, Calit2 extends that focus to include development and deployment of prototype infrastructure for testing new solutions in a real-world context. http://www.calit2.net Calit2: a CISI Patnership Conference on Semantic Computing to Tackle New Technologies, Bring Together Industry and Academia The head of the Qualcomm Institute-based Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning at UC San Diego, music professor Shlomo Dubnov, is organizing a day-long tutorial and workshop on the use of semantic computing in the field of edutainment. http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/rss.php?id=2157 5.17.2013 UC San Diego Creates Center for Brain Activity Mapping The Qualcomm Institute will support the new interdisciplinary initiative, which is a response to President Barack Obama's "grand challenge" to chart the function of the human brain. http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/rss.php?id=2156 5.16.2013 Shannon Memorial Lecture: New Possibilities for Changing Face of Computing Stanford University Professor Abbas El Gamal, the recipient of the 2012 Claude E. Shannon Award, presented a case for using random point-to-point codes for transmitting data over varying networks. http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/rss.php?id=2155 5.15.2013 Alexander Vardy Named First Jack Keil Wolf Chair in Electrical Engineering Vardy is a renowned researcher in information theory and coding theory. The endowed chair was established in memory of Jack Keil Wolf, a longtime professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and a pioneer in information theory and its a http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/rss.php?id=2154 5.14.2013 Undergraduates Study Cultural Heritage During Summer Internships The Qualcomm Institute and its Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) will provide exciting summer research opportunities for Lillian Wakefield (pictured) and other undergraduates interested in the study and http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/rss.php?id=2153 5.12.2013 Qualcomm Institute Researcher to Moderate Panel at XSEDE 2013 Professor Kevin Patrick, who directs the Calit2 Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems, will moderate a panel on transforming biosciences via computing and data analytics. It will be part of Biosciences Day at the annual NSF XSEDE conferen http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/rss.php?id=2152 5.10.2013