April 14, 2017
April 14, 2017 —
Various studies and analyses have revealed that the remains are those of a girl between 15 and 16 years old who lived almost 13,000 years ago in what is now Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula.
April 13, 2017
April 13, 2017 —
The Qualcomm Institute (QI) at UC San Diego has launched its fifth annual invitation to faculty and students to propose residencies culminating in performances or presentations of works and research in visual arts, music, theatre and dance, as well as technology disciplines. The Call for Proposals was published online April 10 on the website of QI’s Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS).
April 10, 2017
April 10, 2017 —
Big Pixel Initiative researchers at the University of California San Diego are partnering with Columbia University and Arizona State University to create a continuous, global map of the urbanization process, and they’re looking to the public to help make it happen.
March 30, 2017
March 30, 2017 —
At the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) this week in Boston, Mass., a team of researchers including UC San Diego computer scientist George Porter accepted an award for the most influential paper among those presented a decade ago at the annual conference. The 2017 NSDI Test of Time Award was presented during a luncheon on March 26 to Porter and his co-authors now at Brown University and UC Berkeley.
March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017 —
INRIA, the French national institute for computer science and applied mathematics, has created a new International Chair and appointed UC San Diego computer engineer Rajesh Gupta to the part-time position. Gupta will spend up to a year in France spread over the five-year appointment, starting this summer.
March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017 —
Silent Music, an exhibition by Canadian sound artist Robin Minard, opens on Thursday, April 6 and runs through June 9 in the gallery@calit2 of the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego. The installation mixes perceptions of nature and technology in quite public spaces. The opening includes a talk by the artist, panel discussion and reception open to the public.
March 27, 2017
March 27, 2017 —
Researchers at QI, in cooperation with the government of Bermuda, have announced the launch of the Bermuda 100 Challenge, an ambitious campaign to digitally document at least 100 ships, artifacts and other sites in Bermuda's shallow reefs.
March 23, 2017
March 23, 2017 —
"Build Your Own Internet of Things," a new online course developed at UC San Diego, has drawn the interest of more than 30,000 active users from around the world.
March 22, 2017
March 22, 2017 —
The nonprofit organization is based at the University of California San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space and has raised a total of $9.5 million since its creation in 2013, including grants, donations and contracts.
March 21, 2017
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.