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SMART Study Among First to Use Social and Mobile Tools for Weight Loss

August 4, 2016

SMART study is among the first to test an intervention that used several technologies – including social media, apps, and text messaging – to promote healthy changes in physical activity and diet. At two years in duration, it was also one of few weight loss interventions evaluated for longer than a year.

For New QI Circuits Labs Technical Director ‘The Best is Yet to Come’

July 26, 2016

If not included, the first paragraph from release will be used): Vincent (Wingching) Leung's combination of industry and academic experience positions him as an ideal candidate to take the helm at the QI Circuits Labs.

Dreaming Big at the 5G Wireless Forum and Connected Health Workshop

July 22, 2016

To make 5G a reality, sensing, computing and communications must transform wireless networks into intelligent, efficient and flexible drivers of a world where “every day things get connected for a smarter tomorrow.”

Composer-in-Residence Lei Liang Bids Farewell to Qualcomm Institute

July 15, 2016

If not included, the first paragraph from release will be used): As his three-year tenure as QI Composer in Residence comes to a close, Lei Liang is reflecting not only on the internationally recognized composition he created while at QI, but also the development of what he calls a “new musical language for myself.” 

SmartCity Hackathon Connects the Data Dots on Behalf of Climate

June 13, 2016

Several UC San Diego students competed last week in the two-day competition, which was designed to transform climate-related data into solutions the City of San Diego can implement in support of its ambitious Climate Action Plan.

Bringing Rigor Back to Science: SciCrunch Supports New NIH Requirements for Biological Citations

June 1, 2016

Ensuring research reproducibility is far from a purely intellectual pursuit: A lack of diligence and consistency can have real-world implications that erode the public’s confidence in scientific research.

UC San Diego Technology Debuts at California’s Great America in New “Mass Effect”™ Attraction

May 18, 2016

“Mass Effect: New Earth, A 4D Holographic Journey” opens to the public today and features Near/Far Acoustic Field (NFAF), an audio infrastructure developed by researchers based at the Qualcomm Institute.

Rallying Around Robots at the Inaugural Southern California Robotics Symposium

May 6, 2016

-- When one thinks about “grassroots” organization, typically it’s political and environmental causes that come to mind, but this year’s Southern California Robotics Symposium (SCR) – held at the University of California San Diego – was whirring, whirling proof that even robots can be a cause to rally around.

NSF Awards $232K to Study Environmental Impacts on Ancient Maya Port

April 20, 2016

Proyecto Costa Escondida (or Hidden Coast Project), co-led by researchers at CISA3, is an investigation of environmental and ecological factors that affected ancient Maya ports in a network of trade routes linking people, goods and ideas from across Mesoamerica. 

Non-Volatile Computer Memory: Other Dimensions, Other Domains

April 1, 2016

The 7th annual Non-Volatile Memories workshop elicited the interest of more than 185 researchers from around the world, who were there to hear where things might be headed for NVM, a crucial component of modern computing systems.
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