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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. 

Maker Faire San Diego: Celebrating ‘Geekdom’ of Every Stripe

September 29, 2016

It’s billed as “The Greatest Show (&Tell) on Earth,” and researchers from the University of California San Diego will once again be part of the spectacle as Maker Faire San Diego takes over Balboa Park.

The Pattern Recognition Lab: Coupling Machine Learning to Brain-Inspired Computers

September 28, 2016

Powerful new “brain-inspired” computing capabilities are turning the scientific method on its head by accelerating a “data science” experimental method that detects patterns in data before generating a hypothesis.

Nowhere to Hide: UC San Diego Researchers Devise New Method for Detecting Hardware Trojans

August 12, 2016

To prevent, detect and combat hardware Trojans at any level of the supply chain, UC San Diego computer scientists and their collaborators have devised a new technique that tracks information flow through a circuit’s logic gates.The technique is described in the cover story in the August 2016 edition of IEEE Computer.
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