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Saura Naderi’s Award-Winning Week

Morrison & Foerster to Assist UC San Diego ‘myLab’ Students with Patent Applications

Morrison & Foerster — a global law firm that represents some of the largest technology companies and research institutes in the world — has agreed to provide in-kind patent prosecution services to students in the University of California, San Diego’s “myLab,” program which is based at the university’s Qualcomm Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.

April 26, 2013Science and Engineering, Students

Qualcomm Institute’s Ashley Richter Wins Interdisciplinary Research Award

Archaeological Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Ashley M. Richter has won an Interdisciplinary Research Award from the University of California, San Diego’s Office of Graduate Studies and Graduate Student Association.

April 26, 2013Arts, Science and Engineering, Students

Calit2 Border App Wins Third Place at Mobile World Congress

A team of students from the University of California, San Diego recently took home third place at the 2013 Mobile World Congress (MWC) after pitching their “Best Time to Cross the Border” app to a panel of judges from technology powerhouses such as Facebook and China Mobile.

March 27, 2013General, International Affairs, Science and Engineering

‘Robot Combat League’ Stars Calit2’s Saura Naderi in ‘Fight to the Death’

A new television series featuring 12 giant robots who ‘fight to the death’ casts University of California, San Diego engineering physics alumna Saura Naderi (B.S., ‘07) as one of a dozen ‘robo-techs’ who partner with a human fighter (‘robo-jockey’) and a super-sized robot to compete for a $100,000 prize.

February 26, 2013General, Science and Engineering, Students

Happiness, New Technologies Focus of Meeting of Pioneering Thinkers

Events, General

Kamalika Chaudhuri: Quantifying the Price of Privacy

The data avalanche brought about by the digital revolution has made it possible to harness vast datasets for everything from statistical analysis to teaching machines to recognize patterns and respond in ‘intelligent’ ways.

June 20, 2012General, Science and Engineering

CRCA Reflects Distinguished Past at 40th Anniversary Celebration

It’s the University of California’s oldest arts research center and was one of the University of California, San Diego’s first Organized Research Units. It’s been housed in everything from a converted Marine Corps bowling alley to a state-of-the-art research facility, and in its 40-year history, the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) has been an incubator for myriad experiments at the intersection of culture and computer science research, from computer-spatialized audio and future cinema to video games and virtual reality.

May 08, 2012Arts, General, Science and Engineering

Data Support Theory on Location of Lost Leonardo da Vinci Painting

Evidence uncovered during research conducted in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio late last year appears to support the theory that a lost Leonardo da Vinci painting existed on the east wall of the Hall of the 500, behind Giorgio Vasari’s mural “The Battle of Marciano.”

March 13, 2012Arts, General, Science and Engineering

InterDigital and Calit2 Launch InterDigital Innovation Challenge

InterDigital (NASDAQ: IDCC) and the University of California, San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) today announced the launch of the InterDigital Innovation Challenge (I²C), an engineering competition that aims to discover breakthroughs in advanced wireless technologies.

February 15, 2012General, Giving, Science and Engineering, Students

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