A Sampling of Clips for
May
07, 2002
UCSD
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A
human touch for machines
Los
Angeles Times, May
7 – For the last decade, a UCSD
research team led by cognitive science professor Javier
Movellan has traveled a quixotic path in search of the
next evolutionary leap in computer development: training machines
to comprehend the deeply human mystery of what we feel.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000032322may07.story
UCSD
medical study halted after some get wrong drug
San
Diego Union Tribune, May
7 – Federal officials last August halted a national trial of a
promising drug for childhood neuroblastoma, a rare but aggressive
cancer, after three patients received the wrong drug because of
mislabeling by UCSD’s
pharmacy. (Quotes Daniel Masys,
director of UCSD’s
Human Research Protection Program and Alice
Yu, a UCSD pediatric
oncologist who was overseeing the research).
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New
treatment for inflammatory bowel disease could soon enter clinical
trials
The
Lancet, Science
& Medicine,
May 4, Pg. 1583 – Immunostimulatory bacterial DNA
sequences could provide a new treatment for inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD), according to the research of an international team.
Eyal Raz, UCSD
professor of medicine
is a senior researcher in the group.
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Revamp
deep-submicron flows? Sure, but how?
Electronic
Engineering Times, May
6 – Attendees at the recent Electronic Design Pro-cesses
workshop differed starkly on how to proceed with RTL sign-off,
high level modeling and platform-based design. (Conference
chairman Andrew
Kahng,
an electrical & computer engineering professor
at
UCSD
is
quoted).
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Newton’s
cherished constant may not be
United
Press International, May
6 – A Russian physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
has announced experimental data that may topple one of science’s
most cherished dogmas – that Newton’s gravitational constant,
famously symbolized by a large “G”, remains constant wherever,
whenever and however it is measured. (Quotes Lev
Tsimring,
a research physicist with the Institute for Nonlinear Science at UCSD).
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A
link between science and security
San
Diego Union Tribune, Opinion,
May
7 – The prospect of terrorists gaining access to and threatening
to use weapons of mass destruction has now become a central
concern of the international community and will be the topic of
discussion at this years Pugwash Conferences on Science and World
Affairs, to be held at UCSD.
Mark
Thiemens,
dean of physical sciences at UCSD
co-authored
this opinion piece.
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