A Sampling of Clips for
April
23, 2002
UCSD
faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the
University Communications
Office
‘Tera-Grid’
to offer on-demand supercomputing
United
Press International, April
23 – The National Science Foundation will begin to set up
hardware for the so-called Tera-Grid, a transcontinental
supercomputer, at four sites including UCSD’s
San Diego Supercomputer Center.
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Waiting
for Wi-Fi
Copley
News Service, April
22 – Wireless fidelity, an inexpensive method of creating
wireless networks in homes and businesses, is slowly becoming
popular in public areas such as coffee shops and hotels.
The UCSD
campus has one of the biggest Wi-Fi networks in San Diego.
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Snags
seen for some schools on INS tracking
San
Diego Union Tribune, April
23 -- A national database designed to track foreign college
students studying in the United States will be ready by July, but
it remains unclear when schools will be required to report their
information. (Quotes Carol
Robertson,
UCSD‘s
associate director of the International Center).
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/tue/metro/news_1m23ins.html
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also appeared in:
Copley
News Service,
April
23
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San Diego’s role in the biotech world
San
Diego Union Tribune,
Opinion,
April 23 – Ivor Royston considers San Diego to have more biotech
companies than any other city in the country. San Diego’s
research institutions and UCSD
are
at the heart of the growth of the life sciences industry and are
among the top 10 for funding from the National Institutes of
Health.
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/tue/opinion/news_1e23royston.html
Oreste
Piccioni, 86; pioneer of research in makeup of matter
San
Diego Union Tribune, Obituary,
April 23 – Oreste
Piccioni, a retired UCSD
physics professor renowned for his pioneering research in the
elementary constituents of matter, died April 13 at the age of 86.
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/tue/metro/news_1m23piccioni.html
