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UC San Diego Research Sheds New Light on Life of Ice Age American

April 14, 2017

Various studies and analyses have revealed that the remains are those of a girl between 15 and 16 years old who lived almost 13,000 years ago in what is now Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula.

Bermuda 100 Challenge: Preserving Shipwrecks, Pixel by Pixel

March 27, 2017

Researchers at QI, in cooperation with the government of Bermuda, have announced the launch of the Bermuda 100 Challenge, an ambitious campaign to digitally document at least 100 ships, artifacts and other sites in Bermuda's shallow reefs.

Internet of Things Specialization Among First Lab-Based Online Courses

March 23, 2017

"Build Your Own Internet of Things," a new online course developed at UC San Diego, has drawn the interest of more than 30,000 active users from around the world.

Learning Equality Awarded $5M Through Google.org Global Education Commitment

March 22, 2017

The nonprofit organization is based at the University of California San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space and has raised a total of $9.5 million since its creation in 2013, including grants, donations and contracts.

The FORCE11 Scholarly Communications Institute to Launch at UC San Diego

February 21, 2017

The global community of researchers, students, librarians, publishers, funders and scholars interested in the future of scholarship has announced the launch of its new annual Force 11 Scholarly Communications Institute, July 30-Aug. 4, 2017

Teaching Computers to Recognize Sick Guts: Machine-Learning and the Microbiome

January 12, 2017

A new proof-of-concept study by UC San Diego researchers succeeded in training computers to “learn” what a healthy versus an unhealthy gut microbiome looks like based on its genetic makeup.

UC San Diego Researcher Joins All of Us℠ Research Program to Examine Federal Research Regulations

January 5, 2017

Camille Nebeker, assistant professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California San Diego, will lead an effort to investigate whether federal regulations to protect human research participants are responsive to new forms of population health research, particularly studies that incorporate emerging technologies such as passive wearable sensors.

UC San Diego Researchers Continue to Make Strides in Research Reproducibility

October 19, 2016

Experts at the recent Global Biological Standards Institute workshop — as well as Cell Press and Thermo Fisher Scientific — have agreed to adopt reproducibility standards first proposed by QI affiliate Anita Bandrowski and her colleagues.

KnuEdge and UC San Diego Announce New Academic Workshop on Heterogeneous Neural Networks

October 17, 2016

KnuEdge and Calit2 workshop to focus on development of next-generation computing architectures to power machine learning.

Qualcomm Institute Audio Expert Joins Comhear, Inc.

October 12, 2016

Peter Otto, founding director of the Qualcomm Institute Sonic Arts Laboratory at the University of California San Diego, has joined the award-winning audio technology company Comhear, Inc. as Chief Science Officer. 
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