(April 18, 2008) Committee members working on planning the UC School of Global Health came to Calit2 @ UCSD and we provided a remote demo session connecting our wall and UCSD wall through Optiputer network. Using two-way HD streaming Prof. Stephen Jenks and Prof. Joerg Meyer presented our research direction and interests.

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There have been many demos for past few months. We are just listing them here with some photos (if available) to pat ourselves back :) 

08/13/2007 National Academy of Engineering Radio interviews Prof. Stephen Jenks 

08/20/2007 CNN American Morning Live

09/09/2007 Univision Primer Impacto

10/15/2007 Visitors from Rockwell-Collins

10/22/2007 Visit from Council of Vice Chancellors for Research

10/31/2007 Engineering 1 Freshman Seminar

11/6/2007 VRST 2007 Open House Night

11/26/2007 Visitors from Daegu, Korea

11/30/2007 Visitors from Ocean Institute 

12/18/2007 Visitors from Boeing interested in learning more about Calit2’s efforts to deliver complementary educational experiences via collaborative technology-based infrastructures.

12/18/2007 Visitors from Swansea University in Wales

1/21/2008 ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Orange County Chapter Visit

1/25/2008 Irvine Health Foundation Visit to talk about interest in telemedicine and providing access to care to community

1/31/2008 Visitors from REANNZ (Research & Education Advanced Network NZ Ltd), New Zealand

2/6/2008 CBS/Discovery Channel Interview with UCI Neurologist, Prof. Gary Lynch

2/28/2008 Vice Chancellor from Wales’ Bangor University with members of the British consulate

2/29/2008 Tours for National Academy of Engineering (NAE)'s Frontiers of Engineering

2/29/2008 NASA Visit to Calit2@UCSD

3/6/2008 Verizon Foundation Visit to talk about the foundation's interest in health care technologies

3/14/2008 Visitors from Warwick University in Coventry, England

4/11/2008 Visitors from Disney World

4/18/2008 Visitors from UC School of Global Health

"Loops" is another beautiful and serene piece by Mark Stock (http://mark.technolope.org/) , which he provided specially for HIPerWall. The size of the image is 25600x8000 to match the native resolution of HIPerWall.

The image below shows the size comparison of all artwork by Mark. Notice the massive size of the gigapixel image "Open House" (32000x32000) on the left side. It simply blows my mind that such images might be a norm for a digital camera someday (or not )

The middle image is "Red Streamlines" 24000x24000 pixels. The right one is the "Loops" 25600x8000 pixels, which is the native pixel size of the HIPerWall.

Incidentally, all these images can be rearranged and zoomed in/out interactively.

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Mark Stock (http://mark.technolope.org/) provided us this magnificent gigapixel image last year but we were unable to show until now due to our  software upgrade. Now this is our first time displaying a true gigapixel image (1,024,000,000 pixels).

"Open House" is 32000x32000 pixels. The detail with lighting and shadows are so fantastic, it looks like a real thing, something like paper mâché sculpture.

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HIPerWall was prominently featured in an article about Jeff Greenberg and the TechCoastWorks incubator in the Orange County Register. The link to the article is:

http://www.ocregister.com/column/browser-life-incubator-1997827-second-virtual

Just to clarify a point from the article: Others helped in building HIPerWall, including Prof. Falko Kuester (the NSF grant PI) and PostDocs Kai-Uwe Doerr and Chris Knox. Falko has since moved to UCSD where he continues to innovate in large-scale visualization and he frequently works with us at UCI. 

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Prof. Stephen Jenks gave a lecture to the freshmen of the Engineering 1 Freshman Seminar in the HIPerWall room on 10/31/2007. This lecture was intended to encourage young minds to understand and follow distinctive paths of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering.

The multimodal presentation included wiimote-controlled-PDF slides, various images and a live HD camera feed of the presentation itself. The presentation was followed by the research demo including Google Earth on HIPerWall.

(1) Council of Vice Chancellors for Research, University of California, Prof. G.P. Li, Calit2 Director UCI Division (on the left side)
(2) Dr. Larry Smarr, Calit2 Director
(3) Prof. Stephen Jenks, HIPerWall Co-PI UCI Lead
(4) Prof. Falko Kuester, HIPerWall Co-PI in the live HD video stream from UC San Diego, Prof. Stephen Jenks, Prof. G.P. Li, Calit2 Director UCI Division
(5),(6) Dr. Steve Potkin, Brain Imaging Center Director

Council of vice chancellors for research from all UC campuses visited Calit2 Monday 10/22/20007. Prof. Stephen Jenks presented the overview and features of HIPerWall. Dr. Steve Potkin presented how his research team could make a medical discovery based on such a large display wall technology.

Prof. Falko Kuester in UCSD could join the presentation by a live HD video stream coming from the UC San Diego through OptIPuter network. New features of TileViewer were introduced including display the HD stream on the HIPerWall as part of visualization objects shown in (4) and displaying any desktop screen of PC shown in (6) (the object displayed on the left side of HIPerWall). More information about the new features will be updated soon.

We thank all members of Calit2 for making this presentation a success. Especially thank the members of Prof. Falko Kuester's research team in UC San Diego, which was affected by the massive wild fire in the region at the time.

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HIPerWall featured on Univision's Primer Impacto 09/09/2007

To see the broadcast clips (02:22), click here (35 MB, mp4 file) or here (63 MB, mpeg file).

It was featured during the segment calld "Technomania". Tanya did the great job conveying the idea of HIPerWall. It's in Spanish though. We will upload a transcript soon.

NOTE: This is such a late update We were in a very hectic situation for some time now. More updates are coming  

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Univision report team, Magaly Ortiz and Dario came to Calit2 today and interviewed Tanya Zabalegui regarding HIPerWall and recorded HIPerWall in action. It is unfortunate that UCI Lead Prof. Stephen Jenks is out of town however Tanya did a great job as a UCI spoke person explaining HIPerWall.

We thank Magaly Ortiz, Dario and Tanya for the great interview and also thank Anna Lynn Spitzer for great support and photographs.

Note: it will be aired this Sunday 5PM on Univision (ch.34) show called "Primer Impacto". Actual air time would be around 5:45PM

NOTE2: Unfortunately it was not aired last Sunday. It should be this Sunday 09/09/2007 5PM.