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Building Living Laboratories of the Future Presenter: Larry Smarr, Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California - San Diego
Roughly two and a half years after California's Governor Davis called for the creation of four new Institutes of Science and Innovation, Calit2 is up and running. It pulls together over two hundred faculty from multiple universities, cutting across all existing boundaries of departments, schools, and campuses. There are over fifty industrial partners and many state and federal agencies providing support. One of the major activities has been the design of two new buildings for the UCSD and UCI campuses, which create interdisciplinary team space and major shared laboratories. With a theme of discovering the future of the internet, Calit2 is creating a series of Living Laboratories of the Future on campus, in the community, and in remote rural areas. All of this turns "business as usual" university planning on its head and has provided the two UC campuses with an experimental view of possible alternatives. Larry Smarr was the founder and 15-year director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the National Computational Science Alliance. The Alliance IS comprised of over fifty universities, government labs, and corporations linked with NCSA in a national-scale virtual enterprise to prototype the information infrastructure of the 21st Century. His views on the Internet, supercomputers, and computational science have been quoted widely in a variety of publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Time. He serves on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, the Advisory Committee to the Director, NIH, and on the NASA Advisory Council to the NASA Administrator. |
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