The document discusses the history and future of telepresence technology. It describes early visions of telepresence from the 1960s, prototypes in the 1980s, and partnerships in the 1990s that helped advance the technology. It outlines current infrastructure like National LambdaRail that enables remote collaboration and explores future possibilities like connecting very large displays and bringing gigabit internet to homes.
07.01.22 Speaker OptIPuter All Hands Meeting Title: OptIPuter Year Five: From Research to Adoption La Jolla, CA
05.06.14 Keynote to the 15th Federation of Earth Science Information Partners Assembly Meeting: Linking Data and Information to Decision Makers Title: The Jump to Light Speed - Data Intensive Earth Sciences are Leading the Way to the International LambdaGrid San Diego, CA
05.05.02 Invited Talk InterWest Partners Title: The Future of the Internet and its Impact on Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine Menlo Park, CA
Calit2 is a research institute at UC San Diego that focuses on digital transformation of fields like health, environment, and education through technologies like mobile phones, sensors, virtual/augmented reality, and high-performance computing networks. The director gave a tour of Calit2's facilities, which include laboratories for nanotechnology, digital media, and medical research using technologies like social mobile apps, environmental sensors on phones, human-robot interaction, and optical networks connecting instruments and storage. Calit2 works with affiliated academic units and industry partners to develop innovative applications and testbeds for areas like telemedicine, digital cinema, virtual reality displays, and telepresence.
08.04.10 Invited Talk California Clean Energy Roundtable Calit2@UCSD Title: The Emergence of the Digitally Connected World La Jolla, CA
08.04.14 Invited Talk National Astrobiology Institute Executive Council Meeting Astrobiology Science Conference 2008 Santa Clara Convention Center Title: High Performance Collaboration Santa Clara, CA
06.02.13 Talk to UCSD's Sixth College Honor's Course on Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near Title: The Singularity: Toward a Post-Human Reality La Jolla, CA
Larry Smarr, founding director of Calit2 (now Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California San Diego) and the first director of NCSA, is one of the seminal figures in the U.S. supercomputing community. What began as a personal drive, shared by others, to spur the creation of supercomputers in the U.S. for scientific use, later expanded into a drive to link those supercomputers with high-speed optical networks, and blossomed into the notion of building a distributed, high-performance computing infrastructure – replete with compute, storage and management capabilities – available broadly to the science community.
11.03.28 Remote Luncheon Presentation from Calit2@UCSD National Science Board Expert Panel Discussion on Data Policies National Science Foundation Title: High Performance Cyberinfrastructure is Needed to Enable Data-Intensive Science and Engineering Arlington, Virginia