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VOL. 24. NO.3 OCTOBER 7, 2003

yesterday, today & tomorrow

RESEARCH ON DISPLAY

Researchers at the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), who for the past year have been applying the revolutionary technology of embedded networked sensing systems to critical scientific and social applications, will provide an overview of the center’s research at its first public research review Oct. 10 at the Tom Bradley International Center. CENS, currently one of only 11 Science and Technology Centers in the United States, was established in 2002 by a contract worth $40 million over 10 years from the National Science Foundation. According to CENS Director Deborah Estrin, a computer science professor in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, embedded networked sensing systems may prove to be as important a technology as the Internet, expanding people’s ability to interact with the physical world in a number of ways.

CHAMPION SPIRIT

UCLA hematology/oncology fellow Milana Dolezal is one of two Californians who will be riding in a cross-country bike relay that kicks off Oct. 11 in Los Angeles with five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. To ride in the Tour of Hope, a bike relay covering 3,200 miles to Washington, D.C., she and 25 others were chosen from a field of nearly 1,000 applicants who had been touched by cancer. The 32-year-old Santa Monica resident and ardent athlete lost her grandmother to breast cancer. When she’s not on call, Dolezal starts each weekend day with a three- to five-hour ride, racking up 65 to 80 miles. “It makes me feel alive,” she said. “I deal with terminally ill patients and I know how fortunate I am to be able to do all this.”

WHO WILL OPERATE?

When you need a qualified surgeon in the coming years, will one be available? Maybe not, according to UCLA researchers. A new study predicts shortages for most surgical specialties due to an aging population. Researchers found that surgeries performed predominantly on older adults, such as cataract and heart surgery, will have the highest increase in demand by the year 2020; ophthalmology led with a 47% increase in demand, closely followed by cardiothoracic surgery at 42%. UCLA lead author David A. Etzioni said that almost 60% of the surgical procedures analyzed were more commonly performed on adults aged 65 and older.