A Sampling of Clips for
September 24, 2004
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Tallying
the Woes of Electronic Balloting
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 24-California
officials have accused the companies
that make electronic voting machines of delivering shoddy equipment
and are suing to get their money back. Meanwhile, computer scientists
from coast to coast have warned that the machines sometimes
err in counting votes and could be easily compromised by amateur
hackers intent on disrupting elections. (Refers to research
conducted by UC San Diego.)
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KTLA Channel 5, Los Angeles, Sept.
24
http://ktla.trb.com/news/nationworld/nation/ktla-fi-evoting24sep24-lat,0,4985802,print.story?coll=ktla-news-1
Real Viruses Studied for Tips on Virtual Ones
MSNBC News, Sept. 23-U.S. university
researchers, including UCSD computer scientist
Stefan Savage, will soon begin a $13 million
study of the spread of Internet viruses using methods pioneered
in tracking the outbreak of human epidemics.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6083065/
San Diego
Voters Are Asked to Give Mayor More Power
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 24-A group
of San Diego civic leaders hopes the city's deepening pension
deficit will persuade voters to do what they have always resisted:
Give the mayor more power. (Quote by Steve Erie,
political science professor at UC San Diego.)
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article appeared in:
Computer World, Sept. 23
http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,96116,00.html
Biology and the Inkjets
Science Magazine, Sept. 24-Older model
inkjets are finding second lives as inexpensive robots that
can dependably dispense minuscule amounts of growth factors
and other proteins and even whole cells, in any pattern, gradient,
or grid that can be drawn. (Refers to research conducted by
Jeffrey Esko, a molecular biologist at the
University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/305/5692/1895
Following
Phylogenetic Footprints
The Scientist, Sept. 23-Researchers
are applying computational power to their hunt for noncoding
regulatory sequences. (Quote by Xiang-Dong Fu,
a professor of cellular molecular medicine at the University
of California, San Diego.)
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Two Views
on Suicide Risk with Antidepressants
Medical News Today, Sept. 24-The recent
FDA proposal to force antidepressants to carry warnings about
increased suicide risk is the subject of a pair of articles
by leading experts in The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, including
Jay S. Cohen, M.D., associate professor of
family and preventive medicine at the University of
California, San Diego.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=13936#
Kids Get
Tech Savvy with Help from The Wizard
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 24-Multimedia
Mondays are now a popular highlight of an after-school program
at the Lomas Santa Fe branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of
San Dieguito called the Fifth Dimension that partners kids in
kindergarten through sixth grade with psychology and communications
majors from UCSD . The Fifth Dizzzzzmension
was founded 17 years ago by Michael Cole, a
professor of communication, psychology and human development
at UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20040924-9999-m1m24tfsol.html
