Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus, gives a talk at UCSD about the microfinance revolution around the world, the Nobel Prize, and the launch of Grameen America, which will bring microcredit to the U.S.
Dr. Yunus' lecture was underwritten by UCSD Extensions' Helen Edison Lecture Series, IRPS at UCSD, the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at USD, and SDSU
Computer Science and Engineering Professor Geoffrey M. Voelker, a Calit2-affiliated researcher, gives a brief overview of the CSE 125 Video Game Course at UCSD during the 2008 final demo presentation.
Leviathan Productions presented their aquatic-themed creation, "20,000 Frags Under the Sea," a first-person shooter game that pits heavily-armed piranhas, groupers and barracudas against each other in a battle for ocean domination.
A final project for the CSE 125 Video Game Course at UCSD.
This talk will feature the artists behind the current exhibition in the gallery @ calit2: Adriene Jenik, creator of SPECFLIC 2.6; and the art collective *particle group*, including Ricardo Dominguez, creators of "Particles of Interest". For more about the exhibition, go to the gallery website at http://gallery.calit 2.net.
Team Undecided Chaos and Shape Destruction's creation was "Island Mayhem," a third-person shooter game in which players throw items like beach balls and bananas at one another in an effort to control a tropical island. When players are "damaged" by their competitors, they turn a sunburned shade of red.
A final project for the CSE 125 Video Game Course at UCSD.
Calit2 @ UCSD Staff member Mike Toillion gives a presentation to several undergraduate ICAM classes about his 4K digital cinema project Beatbox 360.
For more info on Mike's work visit
http://www.jettis onhigh.com/
Larry Smarr, Director of The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology , Calit2, gives the speech "Using Supercomputers and Supernetworks to Study the Ocean of Life" as part of The Los Alamos National Laboratory Director's Colloquium series.
On Accelerating Scientific Discovery Using Scientific Workflows and Kepler Scientific Workflow Systems
Speaker: Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Lab Director, Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies
![Larry Smarr - Director\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/KyWIAfFsRNg/2.jpg "Larry Smarr - Director\")
