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videoEXODUS2 Conference | Larry Smarr, CalIT2 Founding Director
Welcome Remarks | Larry Smarr, CalIT2 Founding Director EXODUS2 Conference June 25, 2025 Atkinson Hall, Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego EX2
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videoHuman Life Extension: The State of the Art – Future In Review
April 10, 2024 “The Technology Behind Life Extension in Action” Renowned science author and journalist David Ewing Duncan takes the FiRe audience on a very personal journey into human life extension. Experience the science of human longevity in action, with personalized-medicine pioneer Larry Smarr and Human Longevity president and chief innovation officer David Karow.
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Pacific Research Platform Video
Building on years of research in network engineering and data-intensive collaborative science, the Pacific Research Platform was born in 2015 with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

WIFIRE: Technology to Predict and Prevent the Spread of Wildfires
Researchers at UC San Diego are working on cutting edge technology to combat the constant threat of wildfires in California.
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Unstoppable Leaders – Global Empowerment Summit 2019
Celebrated leaders in their respective fields discuss the initiatives and breakthroughs that they spearheaded in areas that people thought were impossible or ahead of their time.
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Qualcomm Institute’s Virtual Reality Cave Offers 3D Experience – KPBS Science
Researchers at the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego are commemorating the second year of the Suncave. KPBS Science and Technology reporter Shalina Chatlani took advantage of the occasion to do some high-tech spelunking – or cave exploring.
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Will Supercomputers Create Virtual Maps of Your Body in the Future? – Seeker
Larry Smarr has been collecting 3D visualizations and detailed data on his body for almost a decade, amassing it all into a VR medical avatar of himself.
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Aspen Ideas Festival 2018 – The Man Who Saw Inside Himself
Larry Smarr believes in being the CEO of his own body, and for years, he has been measuring inputs and outputs.
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Future Patient/Future Doctor – Larry Smarr, PhD and Michael Kurisu, DO
Computer scientist Larry Smarr and osteopathic physician Michael Kurisu present a vision for healthcare that combines the best of allopathic and osteopathic medicine by using a more personalized, hands-on, systems-based approach to treating patients. They demonstrate this proof of concept with details on how Smarr diagnosed his own Crohn‚Äôs disease by using blood and stool […]
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FuturePatient – Larry Smarr, PhD
The full recording of computer scientist Larry Smarr presenting ten years of his personal health data on the Visualization Wall at his institute, Calit2 at UC San Diego.
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videoLarry Smarr - Calit2 - Impactful Technologies on the Horizon in the Next 10 Years
Larry Smarr discusses impactful technologies on the horizon over the next 10 years in a Conference Live segment recorded in San Diego.
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Look twice, cut once – University of California News
Before Sonia Ramamoorthy, M.D., chief of colon and rectal surgery at UC San Diego Health, took a scalpel to Larry Smarr, she first took a virtual tour of his large intestine. It encompassed an entire room.
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This UC San Diego Professor Planned His Surgery In Virtual Reality – KPBS
UC San Diego’s Larry Smarr is the kind of guy who wears a Fitbit, monitors his sleep and has had his DNA sequenced. But he takes the whole self-tracking thing farther than most. He has mapped his internal organs in three dimensions. He even has a 3-D printed model of part of his colon.
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Larry Smarr: A U.S. Academic Supercomputing Program is Born
I had been using supercomputers since the early-mid 1970s but to do so I had to get a top secret nuclear clearance.
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videoBlack holes in space and Lido? with Larry Smarr SexyKnowledge episode 3
Episode 3 of SexyKnowledge features Larry Smarr in a video about black holes in space.
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videoBiometrics and the Microbiome
David Perlmutter discusses Larry Smarr's use of supercomputing to analyze his own microbiome and biometric data, and its implications for future healthcare.
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videoBrain-Inspired Computing
Larry Smarr discusses a new architecture for the next era of computing.
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Firefighters get high tech to douse wildfires – PBS News
University of California San Diego computer scientists stitch together information from weather sensors and satellite images to predict where wildfires are moving in real time. All of the images and data is fed into a supercomputer and creates a network of real-time wildfire information. Their cyber infrastructure system, called WIFIRE, analyzes the information to forecast where the fire will move while it is burning.
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Mind Brain Genome Microbiome: Conversation with Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra interviews Dr. Larry Smarr. We discussed everything from the origins of life, life in the universe, consciousness, mind brain genome, environment and the science of epigenetics. 04.23.2014.
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videoLarry Smarr, PhD. and David Webb, PhD. Experience Life Changing Results from RevUp
Larry Smarr and David Webb discuss the quantified-self movement, the science behind RevUp, and changes in their overall health.
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Building Mosaic – IEEE Computer Magazine
Charles Severance, University of Michigan – April 2013, pp. 6-8, vol. 46 IEEE Computer Magazine. (2013).
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The Human Laboratory: One Researcher’s Quest to Personalize Medicine with Larry Smarr
Larry Smarr talks with Mark Bowden about the drive to understand everything about his own body and how that kind of knowledge will become standard in the future. 11.26.2012.
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Larry Smarr Quantified Health 3D
Larry Smarr discusses his efforts in the quantified self movement in this 3D clip shot in the Calit2 StarCAVE virtual reality environment.

D:GP 2012: Larry Smarr, Peter Cowhey, Ed Keller, Benjamin H. Bratton
The 2nd Annual Conference of the Center for Design and Geopolitics. Black Box theater, Calit2. University of California, San Diego. 06.02.012
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Planetary Data, Planetary Governance – Panel
Planetary Data, Planetary Governance Jerry Sheehan, Larry Smarr, Naomi Oreskes, Charlie Kennel.
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Quantified Self – San Diego Union-Tribune
UCSD Physicist Larry Smarr explains Quantified Self and how he believes it could help lower the financial strains of health care. Video by Gary Robbins and David Brooks. 03.16.2012.
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Learning to think – Union-Tribune of San Diego
UCSD Physicist and futurist Larry Smarr talks about his influences and the role of science as it relates to the general public. Video by Gary Robbins and David Brooks. 03.16.2012.
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Future Health – Quantified Self and the Future of Personal Health
The local San Diego Quantified Self meetup group working in collaboration with CALIT2, the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems, and the West Wireless Health Institute brought together great panel discussion. 02.07.2012.
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The Atlantic Meets the Pacific: Exploring Technology with Peggy Johnson and Larry Smarr – The Atlantic
The Atlantic’s James Fallows talks to Peggy Johnson of Qualcomm and Larry Smarr and Susan Shirk of UC San Diego about the future of technology in China, the US and around the world. 10.18.2011.
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Calit2 4K 10th Anniversary Promo
Director Larry Smarr and UC San Diego Division Director Ramesh Rao reflect on the history and future of Calit2 on the occasion of its 10th Anniversary. This film was shot in 4K resolution on a RED digital Cinema camera.
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UC San Diego GreenLight project
Dr. Jürgen P. Schulze describes the immersive visualization application built for the Greenlight Project.

GENERATION INNOVATION-SAN DIEGO
Typography, Motion graphics, and 3D animation were used to kickoff the 2008 Most Innovative New Products Awards. San Diego tech legends Larry Smarr and Craig Ventor speak on this generation’s responsibility to bring up the next generation of innovators.
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UCSD Conversations: California Technology Center Memory Wall – UCTV
Meet Larry Smarr, Director of the California Technology Center at UCSD, celebrate UCSD’s 40th birthday with a look at the memory wall with Thomas Johnson, and learn about the UCSD co-generation plant with Jack Hug.
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Calit2 Atkinson Hall Building Fly Thru
From notated two dimensional plans, Ben Maggos, Matt Hope and Bobby Mazaheri constructed 3D models of the Calit2 Atkinson Hall building under the direction of NMA layer leader, Sheldon Brown.

FCC’s Michael Powell: Future of the Telecom Industry – UCTV
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell speculates on the future of the telecom industry with two of UCSD’s leading authorities in the field: Peter Cowhey, Dean of UCSD’s School of International Relations/Pacific Studies and an expert in telecom regulation and policy; and Larry Smarr, Director of the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology.
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40/40 Vision: A Brief History On Our Wireless Future – UCSD TV
The internet is about to undergo a profound transition via wireless technologies. How will people interact with each other in this enriched internet environment? How can new forms of creativity be unleashed? And what new cultural forms will evolve?
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The New Explorers – WTTW Chicago
Larry Smarr highlights many areas of research being done at NCSA (National Center for Supercomputer Applications) for television program The New Explorers
videoNCSA’s Science by Satellite – SIGGRAPH 1989
NCSA used its presence at SIGGRAPH 1989 to paint a vision of distance bing eliminated by network and computing technology.

Larry Smarr on CBS Nightwatch with Charlie Rose
Larry Smarr appears on the news program CBS Nightwatch with Charlie Rose 4/20/1988
video1987 - Worldnet Dialogue: Larry Smarr - Super Computers / Excerpts
Excerpts from a 1987 Worldnet Dialogue featuring Larry Smarr discussing supercomputers; the supplied metadata contains no description.
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Larry Smarr on the Phil Donahue Show
Professor Larry Smarr appearing to discuss nuclear proliferation on the Phil Donahue show in 1983.
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