Today’s computing has been a great success. Healthcare, financial, communication, and entertainment industries rely heavily on data centers. By some estimates, the amount of data processed in data centers is doubling every year. At this pace, there will be needs for many ultrahigh-performance data centers processing 1000 times more data in the next decade. However, today’s data centers
Autonomous and Interactive Systems at UC Merced has broad applications and focuses on the extremely important capability that intelligent systems have to achieve in order to be inserted in society: the ability to autonomously act with, and/or in cooperation with, people. The projects focus on systems that can be used to train and assist people in preparation for or during complex and difficult situations.
Healthcare is a $2 Trillion/year industry which amounts to 16% of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. These numbers are expected to rapidly rise as the aging baby boomers will continue to increase the elderly age group population (people above 60 years of age) from the current 10% level to the 25% level in 2030. While the advances in hardware and software technologies for healthcare services have been remarkable, networking remains as the main hurdle in delivering much needed modern healthcare services in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Large scale incidents, whether natural such as the Katrina disaster, tsunamis, and earthquakes, or human-caused such as the WTC incident, are becoming more frequent and more problematic. We have seen that people have been ill prepared to efficiently and effectively handle such incidents, largely due to lack of adequate information and communication at the incident scene. This project focuses on increasing safety and effectiveness at urban incidents by improving information and communication quality and quant
The BioPOETS (Biomolecular Polymer Opto-Electronic Technology
and Science) group is focusing on quantum nanoplasmonics, microfluidic
BASICs (Biological Application Specific Integrated Circuits),
soft-state biological devices, and BioPOEMS
(Biomolecular-Polymer-Opto-Electro-Mechanical-Systems) for the
digitalization of quantitative systems biology and molecular medicine.
Future biomedical implants with extended wireless connectivity will form the bottom layer of a future intelligent health care delivery infrastructure. In addition to providing therapy through electrical stimulation and drug delivery, implants will provide uploading diagnostic information to clinicians and downloading of customized therapeutic algorithms to enable personalized medicine.
