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$50,000 to Solve the Most Complicated Puzzle Ever Attempted

Science & Environment

Every few years the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) holds a public competition to stretch the outer limits of what technology can do. Two years ago they dispersed 10 large, red weather balloons at undisclosed locations across the U.S. The celebrated 2009 DARPA Network Challenge to find the balloons was solved in just nine hours by a team from MIT. Now, Manuel Cebrian, a member of that winning team, is aiming for a repeat win – only this time, the challenge is exponentially harder.

$50,000 to Solve the Most Complicated Puzzle Ever Attempted

SDSC’s Trestles Debuts on ‘Graph500’ List

Science & Environment

Trestles, a new supercomputer using flash-based memory and launched earlier this year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has made this year’s Graph500 list, a new ranking that measures how well supercomputers handle data-intensive challenges.

SDSC’s Trestles Debuts on ‘Graph500’ List

UCSD Students Touch the Future in Collaboration with Museum of Photographic Arts

Science & Environment

Meantime, the project team will process surveys and a mountain of user data collected and stored by the touch table in Osaka to discover patterns in how users picked and ordered the photographs and to find out which were the most and least popular. This information will be used to improve the visitor experience for MOPA’s Fall 2012 exhibition.

UCSD Students Touch the Future in Collaboration with Museum of Photographic Arts

Blood Pressure and Stroke Risk Gets More Complicated

Health & Behavior

For patients who have suffered an ischemic stroke, traditional treatment prescribes keeping subsequent blood pressure levels as low as possible to reduce the risk of another stroke. A new international study, however, suggests this conventional approach may not be helpful, and could actually increase recurrent stroke risk – at least in the first few months after the first event.

Blood Pressure and Stroke Risk Gets More Complicated

New Mentoring Program at Jacobs School of Engineering Connects Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Technology & Engineering

When two UC San Diego graduate students set out to create a new mentoring program at the Jacobs School of Engineering that pairs graduate students and undergraduates, they didn’t expect to be flooded with applications. They also didn’t expect the massive turn out at the program’s first meeting this month. But Margie Mathewson and Laura Connelly say they are now expecting the program to keep growing and building an even stronger sense of community at the Jacobs School.

New Mentoring Program at Jacobs School of Engineering Connects Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Creative ‘Storm’ Set to Hit UC San Diego

Humanities

“The Storm,” a drama by 19th-century Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky, is not a common choice in American regional theatre seasons. But true to its mission of producing innovative and eclectic work, the UC San Diego department of theatre and dance will stage the play Nov. 18 through Dec. 3 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre.