July 18, 2014
The Qualcomm Institute at the University of California, San Diego has given the green light to 35 new projects that are part of the institute’s Calit2 Strategic Research Opportunities (CSRO) program. Each one-year seed grant is worth up to $50,000 in support for researchers in areas of critical interest to…
July 28, 2015
A team of photonics researchers at the University of California, San Diego is part a new multimillion dollar photonics manufacturing and research center based in Rochester, New York. Vice President Joseph Biden and Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on July 27 the details of the American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics…
August 3, 2015
…presentations focusing on a range of topics including earthworm-inspired robotics and the early cotton industry’s influence on border culture to the blood brain barrier and sea spray aerosols.
October 19, 2015
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United Kingdom’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have awarded funding for the Neuroscience Gateways project led by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego. The project will contribute to the national BRAIN initiative announced by the…
December 11, 2015
Researchers and students from UC San Diego’s CISA3 presented a wide range of work at the annual Digital Heritage Conference in Granada, Spain, one of the top events worldwide for cultural heritage engineering.
February 8, 2016
Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a pedestrian detection system that performs in near real-time and with higher accuracy than existing systems. The technology, which incorporates deep learning models, could be used in “smart” vehicles, robotics and image and video search systems.
March 3, 2016
The University of California, San Diego and Centro de Ensenanza Tecnica y Superior (CETYS) of Baja California, Mexico have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen and increase collaboration, focusing on entrepreneurship, innovation and policy. The initiative was formalized March 3 by UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla…
March 16, 2016
The 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools guidebook, released today, highly ranks the University of California, San Diego’s professional schools and programs in engineering and medicine.
April 18, 2016
The Laboratory for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles (LISA) at UC San Diego had a presence at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as part of a Qualcomm automotive pavilion and demo. It was the lab’s second CES-related demo in three years.
June 7, 2016
Calit2 is an early partner and will be a user of KnuEdge’s new computing architecture inspired by an earlier processor developed in Calit2’s Circuits Labs at UC San Diego. The technology could dramatically accelerate machine learning, Big Data analytics and other computations.
