October 3, 2024
UC San Diego computer scientist Rose Yu is one of the MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 in this year’s list of “exceptionally talented young innovators” whose work has “the greatest potential to transform the world.”
October 14, 2024
From better algorithms for self-driving vehicles, to better solutions for robotics surgery, and better ways for robots to manipulate objects, researchers at the University of California San Diego are presenting their work at the IROS 2024 conference Oct. 14 to 18 in Abu Dhabi.
October 22, 2024
UC San Diego’s Teevrat Garg explores how extreme heat affects workforces in low- and middle-income countries.
October 22, 2024
Recognized for pioneering contributions in robotics, embedded software and cybersecurity, Chancellor Khosla’s election to the Indian National Science Academy acknowledges his pivotal role in shaping global research and technological advancements in these fields.
October 29, 2024
UC San Diego will honor five individuals as recipients of the 2024 Revelle Medal, a prestigious award recognizing sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to campus. The 2024 Revelle Medal recipients are: Fan Chung Graham, Stephan Haggard, Douglas Richman, M.D., Robert Schooley, M.D. and Jan B. Talbot.
October 29, 2024
A new study led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography demonstrates, for the first time, how scientists can use computer simulations to quantify the light emitted by dinoflagellates when they flash in breaking waves, creating stunning displays of bioluminescence.
June 13, 2013
…and social implications of computerization, particularly the automation of surveillance. For Gates, the big cultural moment with drones came after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Humans, she says, have been using “unmanned” aerial devices to study enemy territory since the invention of the hot-air balloon. But attaching weapons to these…
January 25, 2018
…with building the first computerized map of the human brain. John S. O’Brien, MD, second chairman of the same department, discovered the genetic cause of Tay-Sachs disease and developed the first tests for the disorder. Daniel Steinberg, MD, PhD, founding head of the Division of Metabolic Diseases, was one of…
November 8, 2011
A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego Autism Center of Excellence shows that brain overgrowth in boys with autism involves an abnormal, excess number of neurons in areas of the brain associated with social, communication and cognitive development.
December 20, 2013
The interventional cardiology team led by Ehtisham Mahmud, MD, FACC, at UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center (SCVC) has successfully completed the first two robotically-assisted coronary angioplasty/stent procedures in California.
