CPI - Center for Physics of Information

We have formed the Center for the Physics of Information to create an understanding of the foundations of ultra small scale computing. We will be studying devices, systems, and the related abstractions. The goal is to identify the technologies which will become the basis for the next generation of systems that will change the world.

Website: http://www.cpi.caltech.edu

CBCD - Center for Biological Circuit Design

One of the most compelling challenges facing biology relates to the storage, processing, and communication of information within and between molecules, cells, and organisms. The Center for Biological Circuit Design has been created to understand how life computes and communicates, and to develop the tools that will allow us to use these principles in new technolgies.

Website: http://www.cbcd.caltech.edu

SISL - The Social and Information Sciences Laboratory

Social systems such as markets process immense amounts of noisy information. We have created SISL to study the way markets aggregate information using research tools and approaches from engineering. With improved understanding, we hope to develop ways to improve existing markets and create entirely new social systems which will perform more effectively. The Social and Information Sciences Center brings people from social science, engineering, and applied and computational mathematics together to develop new ways to look at and devise new markets.

Website: http://www.sisl.caltech.edu

CMI - Center for Mathematics of Information

There is a need for a common language of information between researchers from different fields. Mathematics has provided the foundation for virtually every major new advance of the industrial revolution and beyond. It is fitting that a dedicated community of mathematicians, engineers and scientists combine to create a new way of thinking about information. Fundamental new ideas will emerge form this effort to influence all of the activities we are pursuing.

Website: http://www.cmi.caltech.edu

Lee Center - Lee Center for Advanced Networking

Ubiquitous communication and computing technologies are changing the world. Online communities, e-commerce, e-service, and distance learning are a few of the consequences of these technologies. The Caltech Center for Advanced Networking develops new applications and technology with global impact. Our goal is the creation of a world wide distributed computing system that connects people and appliances through wireless and high-bandwidth wired channels and a backbone of computers that serve as databases and object servers. This is a multidisciplinary challenge, with issue in modeling and protocols, circuits and coding, and propagation and antennas. Our application space includes e-commerce and e-service as well as education and collaboration among scientists in virtual laboratories. Our system is a universal information space in which collections of people can discover each other, find information and appliances that they need for collaboration, carry out data-intensive collaborations, regardless of where people are geographically or whether they are mobile or stationary.

Website: http://leecenter.caltech.edu

CNSE - Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering

The scientists and engineers at the Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering (CNSE) are working to translate our understanding of biologic systems into a new class of electronic devices that imitate the ways animals sense and make sense of the world. The ultimate goal of CNSE researchers is to enable the machines of the future to sense, interact with, learn from, and adapt to their environment with a flexibility equivalent to that of living creatures.

The Center's work is cross-fertilized by researchers in a wide variety of fields, including biology, electronics, fluid dynamics, optoelectronics, chemistry, neural networks, and physiology.

Website: http://www.cnse.caltech.edu