The California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information
Technology
Briefing to the
The Unwired Fund
Held at Leap Wireless
La Jolla, CA
April 18, 2001
Supercomputers Give Us
an Early View of the Mass Market Future
Cray X-MP Supercomputer
Located at National Center
Cost: $8,000,000
No Built in Graphics
56 kbps NSFnet Backbone
1985
2000
Personal Computer
Located on Desktops
Cost: $2,000
Interactive 3D Graphics
56 kbps Laptop Modem
From Supercomputer Centers to the NSFnet
to Today’s Commercial Internet
Image: Cox, Patterson, NCSA
Tech Transfer From NCSA
Enabled the Modern Web World
100 Commercial
Licensees
Governor Davis Created New Institutes for
Science, Innovation, and Tech Transfer
The California Institute for Bioengineering,
Biotechnology,
and Quantitative Biomedical Research
The Center for
Information Technology Research
in the Interest of Society
(Proposed-UCB, UCD, UCSC, UCM)
UCB
UCSF
UCSC
The California
NanoSystems Institute
UCSB
UCLA
UCI
UCSD
The California Institute
for Telecommunications
and Information Technology
The Internet is Poised to Move
Throughout the Physical World
Radio
(1940s)
Internet
(1990s)
CWC Brings Deep Wireless Expertise to
the Heart of The Institute
Center for
Wireless Communications
Broadband Wireless
LOW-POWERED
CIRCUITRY
RF
Mixed A/D
ASIC
Materials
ANTENNAS AND
PROPAGATION
COMMUNICATION
THEORY
COMMUNICATION
NETWORKS
MULTIMEDIA
APPLICATIONS
Architecture
Changing
Modulation
Media Access
Smart Antennas
Environment
Channel
Coding
Scheduling
Adaptive Arrays
Protocols
Multiple Access End-to-End QoS Multi-Resolution
Compression
Hand-Off
Complex Problems Require
a New Research and Education Framework
220 UCSD & UCI Faculty
Working in Multidisciplinary Teams
With Students, Industry, and the Community
The State Provides $100 M
For New Buildings and Equipment
www.calit2.net
The UCSD Cal-(IT)2 Building
Preliminary Design
Occupancy 2004
220,000 Gross SF
• New Media Arts Spaces
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Research Lab
Visualization Labs
Audiovisual Editing Facilities
Gallery Space
Helping Design Auditorium
The Southern High Tech Coast
Is Well Organized for Partnering
• From Bandwidth Bay to Wireless Valley
– 70,000 Fiber Strand-Miles Under Downtown SD
– Nation’s Center for Wireless Companies
• San Diego Telecom Council
– www.sdtelecomcouncil.org
– 200 Member Companies
– SIGs on Optical, Wireless, Satellite, etc. Funnels to Cal(IT)2
• UCSD CONNECT
– www.connect.org
– UCSD Program in Technology and Entrepreneurship
– Will Facilitate Create of a Cal(IT)2 Investment Council
• Many Others
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BIOCOM
Mayor’s Science and Technology Commission
UCI Chief Executive Roundtable
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A Broad Partnership Response
from the Private Sector
Akamai
Boeing
Broadcom
AMCC
CAIMIS
Compaq
Conexant
Copper Mountain
Emulex
Enterprise Partners VC
Entropia
Ericsson
Global Photon
IBM
IdeaEdge Ventures
Intersil
Irvine Sensors
Leap Wireless
Litton Industries
MedExpert
Merck
Microsoft
Computers
Communications
Software
Sensors
Biomedical
Startups
Venture Firms
Large Partners
>$10M Over 4 Years
Mission Ventures
NCR
Newport Corporation
Orincon
Panoram Technologies
Printronix
QUALCOMM
Quantum
R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical RI
SAIC
SciFrame
Seagate Storage
Silicon Wave
Sony
STMicroelectronics
Sun Microsystems
TeraBurst Networks
Texas Instruments
UCSD Healthcare
The Unwired Fund
WebEx
$140 M Match From Industry
Elements of the
Cal -(IT)2 Industrial Partnerships
• Endowed Chairs for Professors
• Start-Up Support for Young Faculty
• Graduate Student Fellowships
• Research and Academic Professionals
• Sponsored Research Programs
• Equipment Donations for Cal-(IT)2 and Campus
• Named Laboratories in new Institute Buildings
• Pro Bono Services and Software
The UCSD “Living Grid Laboratory”—
Fiber, Wireless, Compute, Data, Software
•Commodity Internet, Internet2
•Link UCSD and UCI
SDSC
• High-speed optical core
CS
Eng. / Cal-(IT)2
Hosp
Med
Chem
• Campus Wireless
SIO
½ Mile
Source: Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC
Broadband Wireless Internet is Here Today
• Create Wireless Internet “Watering Holes”
– Ad Hoc IEEE 802.11 Domains
– Real Broadband--11 mbps Going to 54 mbps
– Security and Authentication can be Added
– Home, Neighborhoods, Office, Schools?
– MobileStar--Admiral Clubs, Starbucks, Major
Hotels, Restaurants, …
– UCSD—Key Campus Buildings, Dorms, Coffee
Shops…
“The future is already here,
it’s just not evenly distributed”
William Gibson, Author of Neuromancer
Wireless Internet Can Put a Supercomputer
in the Palm of Your Hand!
802.11b Wireless
Interactive Access to:
• State of Computer
• Job Status
• Application Codes
MicroSensors Will Radically Alter
the Human-Computer Interface
Valveless Microfluidics
Mechanical Stress and
Acceleration Sensors
0.1 mm
Micro Optical Assemblies
(Lenses and Mirrors)
MEMS structures fabricated and tested at
the UCI Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility
Goal: Design of Configurable Wireless Embedded
Sensing/Computing/Communicating Appliances
Wireless
RTOS
Applications
sensors Reconf.
Logic
Processors
Memory
Protocol
Processors
Protocol
Stacks
Network
Transport
Data Link
Physical
RF
Protocols
Sw/Hw/Sensor/RF
Co-design
Reconfiguration
DSP
SoC Design
Methodologies
Sw/Silicon/MEMS
Implementation
Source: Sujit Dey, UCSD ECE
Internet
The Wireless Internet
Can Create Intelligent Transportation
• Institute Scope
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Sensor Based Real-time Monitoring of Traffic & Cars
Extension of the Internet Into Automobiles
Telematics Consortium
Mobile Commerce
The High Performance
Wireless Research and Education Network
NSF Funded
PI, Hans-Werner Braun, SDSC
Co-PI, Frank Vernon, SIO
45mbps Duplex Backbone
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Presentations/HPWREN
Wireless Antennas Anchor
Network High Speed Backbone
http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/Presentations/HPWREN
Source: Hans-Werner Braun, SDSC
The Wireless Internet Will Improve
the Safety of California’s 25,000 Bridges
New Bay Bridge Tower
with Lateral Shear Links
Cal-(IT)2 Will
Develop and Install
Wireless Sensor Arrays
Linked to
Crisis Management
Control Rooms
Source: UCSD Structural Engineering Dept.
High Resolution Data Analysis Facility-Research and Crisis Management
Panoram Technologies,
SGI, Sun, TeraBurst Networks,
Cox Communications, Global Photon
Institute Industrial Partners
Planned for Fall 2001 at SIO
Support from SDSC and SDSU
Can Use of These Technologies Help Us
Avoid the Downsides of Prolonged Growth?
• Add Wireless
Sensor Array
• Build GIS Data
• Focus on:
UCI
Huntington
Beach
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High Tech Coast
UCSD
Mission Bay
San Diego Bay
Pollution
Water Cycle
Earthquakes
Bridges
Traffic
Policy
• Work with the
Community to
Adapt to Growth
As Our Bodies Move On-Line
Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Merge
• New Sensors—Israeli Video Pill
– Battery, Light, & Video Camera
– Images Stored on Hip Device
• Next Step—Putting You On-Line!
– Key Metabolic and Physical Variables
– Wireless Internet Transmission
– Model -- Dozens of 25 Processors and 60
Sensors / Actuators Inside of our Cars
• Post-Genomic Individualized Medicine
– Combine Your Genetic Code & Imaging,
with Your Body’s Data Flow
– Use Powerful AI Data Mining Techniques
www.givenimaging.com