We compute $ku^*\left(K\!\left({\mathbb{Z}}_p,2\right)\right)$ and $ku_*\left(K\!\left({\mathbb{Z}}_p,2\right)\right)$, the connective $KU$-cohomology and connective $KU$-homology groups of the mod-$p$ Eilenberg–MacLane space $K\!\left({\mathbb{Z}}_p,2\right)$, using the Adams spectral sequence. We obtain a striking interaction between $h_0$-extensions and exotic extensions. The mod-$p$ connective $KU$-cohomology groups, computed elsewhere, are needed in order to establish higher differentials and exotic extensions in the integral groups.

We make some computations in stable motivic homotopy theory over Spec ℂ, completed at 2. Using homotopy fixed points and the algebraic K-theory spectrum, we construct over ℂ a motivic analogue of the real K-theory spectrum KO. We also establish a theory of motivic connective covers over ℂ to obtain a motivic version of ko. We establish an Adams spectral sequence for computing motivic ko-homology. The E2-term of this spectral sequence involves Ext groups over the subalgebra A(1) of the motivic Steenrod algebra. We make several explicit computations of these E2-terms in interesting special cases.