The document summarizes activities at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). It describes two new buildings that provide laboratories and support over 1000 researchers working on projects including nanotechnology, virtual reality, and digital cinema. It highlights several projects Calit2 is involved in, such as prototyping extremely high bandwidth applications, borderless collaboration between global research centers, and wireless networks for disaster response.

1. “ Calit2-Living in the Future " Briefing The Future in Review (FiRe) 2006 Conference University of California, San Diego May 15, 2006 Dr. Larry Smarr Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Harry E. Gruber Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD

2. California’s Institutes for Science and Innovation A Bold Experiment in Collaborative Research California NanoSystems Institute UCSF UCB California Institute for Bioengineering, Biotechnology, and Quantitative Biomedical Research California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society UCSC UCD UCM www.ucop.edu/california-institutes UCSB UCLA UCI UCSD

3. Where is Telecommunications Research Performed? A Historic Shift Source: Bob Lucky, Telcordia/SAIC U.S. Industry Non-U.S. Universities U.S. Universities Percent Of The Papers Published IEEE Transactions On Communications 70% 85%

5. Calit2 is Experimenting with Open Reconfigurable Work Spaces to Enhance Collaboration Photos by John Durant; Barbara Haynor, Calit2 Over Two Dozen Academic Departments in the Building

6. The Calit2@UCSD Building is Designed for Prototyping Extremely High Bandwidth Applications 1.8 Million Feet of Cat6 Ethernet Cabling 150 Fiber Strands to Building; Experimental Roof Radio Antenna Farm Ubiquitous WiFi Photo: Tim Beach, Calit2 Over 10,000 Individual 1 Gbps Drops in the Building ~10G per Person UCSD is Only UC Campus with 10G CENIC Connection for ~30,000 Users 24 Fiber Pairs to Each Lab

8. First Trans-Pacific Super High Definition Telepresence Meeting in New Calit2 Digital Cinema Auditorium Lays Technical Basis for Global Digital Cinema Sony NTT SGI Keio University President Anzai UCSD Chancellor Fox

9. First Remote Interactive High Definition Video Exploration of Deep Sea Vents Source John Delaney & Deborah Kelley, UWash Canadian-U.S. Collaboration

10. Prototyping the PC of 2015 One Hundred Million Pixels Connected at 10Gbps Calit2 Working with NASA, USGS, NOAA, NIEHS, EPA, SDSU, SDSC, Duke, … 100M Pixel Tiled Wall in Calit2@UCSD Building Source: Jason Leigh, EVL, UIC

11. Marine Genome Sequencing Project Measuring the Genetic Diversity of Ocean Microbes Sorcerer II Data Will Double Number of Proteins in GenBank!

12. Exploring the Future of Neworked Computer Games-- Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA)

14. NSF RESCUE Strongly Coupled with NIH WIISARD Grant W ireless I nternet I nformation S ystem for Medic a l R esponse in D isasters First Tier Mid Tier Wireless Networks Triage Command Center Reality Flythrough Mobile Video 802.11 pulse ox Calit2 is Working Closely with the First Responder Community