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December 7, 2005

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Flights of Fancy on Flexible Chips
New York Times, Dec. 7-The exuberant designers of the golden age of plastic have explored all the wacky, nonfunctional, decorative shapes that household objects could take. Now that same plasticity is coming to microcontrollers, the computer chips that act as brains for the chirping, dancing, listening and seeing devices that line our knickknack shelves and dashboards and fill our pockets. (Mentions research by Natalie H. M. Jeremijenko, an assistant professor of visual arts at UCSD.) More

MiraCosta College
Urged to Improve Counseling
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 7-MiraCosta College does a great job of preparing students for four-year universities but may need to provide even more counseling, particularly of minority youth, representatives of those institutions said yesterday. Trustees of the community college met for nearly two hours with delegates from UCSD, San Diego State and California State University San Marcos. More