October 6, 2023
From helping wounded soldiers in the field, to helping robots avoid obstacles in the field, and more, researchers from the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute made a strong showing at IROS 2023.
February 19, 2015
…tools and data science-based deep analytics techniques to public transportation agencies, road authorities and municipalities. Outcomes help clients improve operations, reduce costs and better serve travelers. In a joint statement, Rady School’s Professor of Marketing Karsten Hansen and Associate Professor of Marketing On Amir said, “We are privileged to welcome…
November 12, 2020
…Students from Ghana orphanage learn neurobiology from UC San Diego Extension and Boz Institute instructors Two evenings a week, a group of high school students in the West African nation of Ghana travel by taxi from the orphanage where they live to historic Cape Coast Castle, once a fort used…
May 20, 2019
Imagine a technology that could target pesticides to treat specific spots deep within the soil, making them more effective at controlling infestations while limiting their toxicity to the environment. Researchers at UC San Diego and Case Western Reserve University have taken a step toward that goal.
May 2, 2017
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has been granted a supplemental award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to double the number of graphic processing units, or GPUs, on its petascale-level Comet supercomputer in direct response to growing demand for GPU computing across a wide range…
May 31, 2018
…the regional Teaching and Learning Conference for Educators. Co-hosted by UC San Diego’s CREATE (Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment & Teaching Excellence), the event draws over 300 local teachers. The goal is to collectively share what works and discover the latest breakthroughs in how to maximize student-learning outcomes.…
November 21, 2019
…Conversations By Gail Heyman Deeper conversations can enrich our lives and the lives of others, and people can learn strategies to have more of them. Be in the moment with people. Actively listen to understand rather than to judge or plan what you will say. But make an effort to…
January 17, 2018
Confirming earlier computational models, researchers at University of California San Diego and UC San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Arizona and Louisiana, report that episodic memories are encoded in the hippocampus of the human brain by distinct, sparse sets of neurons.
March 4, 2021
…Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood Springs to Life Students in the center of the campus’s first living and learning neighborhood. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Communications. After welcoming students to the west side residential areas in the fall, the east side of North Torrey Pines Living and Learning…
November 30, 2017
…uses computer vision and deep learning algorithms to automatically generate interactive lecture notes from traditional lectures. The technology was created to assist STEM students in learning optimally while in the class, and reviewing their notes catalogued, tagged, and transcribed for accessibility and enhanced recall. Parmar’s technology has garnered improvement in…
