March 5, 2012
Accurately predicting severe storms, or what Wall Street’s markets will do next, may become just a bit easier in coming months as Gordon, a unique supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, begins helping researchers delve into these and other data-intensive projects.
September 1, 2020
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, the University of Washington, and UC Berkeley have entered production operations of the National Science Foundation-funded CloudBank program, which aims to simplify the use of public clouds across computer science research and education.
June 5, 2014
…complex and often controversial social/historical issues.” Natalia M. Molina Natalia M. Molina is a highly dedicated teacher who has made significant and outstanding contributions to the teaching mission of UC San Diego, particularly in the area of diversity. In pursuing the campus’s goal of increasing diversity literacy on campus, Professor…
September 26, 2016
The Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLWH) at the University of California San Diego kicks off a year-long series of educational events with two compelling programs this fall, underscoring this year’s theme “Holocaust and the Burden of History.” The 2016-17 workshop events will approach the Holocaust from various angles to shed…
March 21, 2017
A team of current and former students at UC San Diego in computer science, economics and aerospace engineering have launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to launch the Firefly Smart Mirror, the first voice-controlled, tablet-based smart mirror.
September 10, 2020
…pretty much following the normal routine except for one very special occasion: the grand opening of the campus’ newest architectural masterpiece, the iconic Geisel Library building, then known as the Central University Library. The Triton community had been teeming with excitement during the construction of the building, which spanned from…
February 1, 2013
Dr. Robert P. Harkness, a computational astrophysicist with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, died on Sunday, January 27, after a brief bout with cancer. He was 56.
December 23, 2020
This wasn’t Noah’s flood. But it was still a catastrophic event that profoundly changed the landscape and could have given rise to legends, too. Study identifies oldest known paleo tsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean.
February 4, 2016
…Jeff Elman and Don Norman. She has been a pioneer in shaping contemporary theories of cognitive development. The scope of Mandler’s research covers a wide span of knowledge representations, including animacy, spatial relations, concept hierarchies, scripted activities, story grammars, pictorial scenes and discourse. Mandler met her husband, psychologist George Mandler,…
February 8, 2019
Walter Munk, who gave the Allies a strategic edge in World War II, helped nurture a university into existence, and became a living synonym for oceanography, died February 8 at his home in La Jolla, Calif. He was 101.
