2022 Media Watch Archives
Opinion: Can the Apple Playbook Work for Windows Computers?
Bloomberg -
Desktops made by a small California company demonstrate that it is possible to build a PC that performs well and isn’t an eyesore. … Founder and Chief Executive Officer Johnny Hou started NZXT in 2004 to sell a colorful, robot-themed computer case he designed when he was an engineering student at University of California, Irvine. In an interview earlier this month, the entrepreneur explained how the venture brought together his lifelong passions for gaming, design and technology. Read More
Column: North County sand war underscores San Diego’s long struggle to save beaches
The San Diego Union Tribune -
Some development has resulted in artificially broad beaches, according to Brett Sanders, professor of civil and environmental engineering, urban planning and public policy at UC Irvine. “The construction of Dana Point Harbor in the 1960s and the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in the 1960s and ’70s contributed to beach widening from Doheny through San Onofre beaches — where beach sand is now vanishing,” he wrote in the Los Angeles Times. Read More
SPIE names Michael Berns as its 2022 Gold Medal winner
Optics.org -
SPIE has announced that its 2022 SPIE Gold Medal winner is Michael Berns, co-founder and founding director of the Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic and a professor of biomedical engineering, surgery, and developmental and cell biology at the University of California, Irvine. The SPIE Gold Medal is the highest honor the Society bestows. It is awarded in recognition of outstanding engineering or scientific accomplishments in optics, photonics, electro-optics, or imaging technologies and applications. Berns is widely known as the “the father of laser microbeams,” due, in part, to his seminal work delineating how the laser can perform subcellular surgery on chromosomes. Read More
UCI researchers create method for paying for things with a high-five
Spectrum News 1 -
Some scientists in Irvine have created a flexible fabric that could help unlock doors without the use of a key or badge and make a payment with a wave of a hand or even a high-five. "It's technology at the tip of our hand to use it on demand," said Amir Hajiaghajani, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine, who helped create the technology. … UCI electrical engineering and computer science [Assistant] Professor Peter Tseng … said it has the potential to measure and transmit a patient's vital signs with their invention in a hospital gown …. Read More