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Learning Equality Awarded $5M Through Google.org Global Education Commitment

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.

UC San Diego Students, Alumni Launch Kickstart Campaign for Smart Mirror

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.

Using Batteries to Cut Utility Costs

March 21, 2017

CNS postdoctoral researcher Alper Sinan Akyurek and CSE professor Tajana Rosing developed an algorithm for controlling batteries that can decrease the utility cost of an actual building by up to 50 percent compared to a building powered without the use of batteries.

Alumnae, Students Behind Performance at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute

March 21, 2017

Graduate students at the University of California San Diego will stage an original work and performance on Thursday, March 23, in the Qualcomm Institute on the university campus. Their interdisciplinary work, “The Burden of Selfhood”, will explore the themes of feminism, identity and technology.

Kyoto University, a UC San Diego Partner, Will Open Office in San Diego

March 20, 2017

Kyoto University of Japan, one of the University of California San Diego’s international partners, will open an office in San Diego in early April, both campuses have announced.

UC San Diego Professor Receives Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award

March 7, 2017

University of California San Diego professor Bhaskar Rao will receive the 2016 Technical Achievement Award this week from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). The formal ceremony takes place in New Orleans during the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017).

Center for Networked Systems Adds New Faculty Members

March 7, 2017

The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) at the University of California San Diego now has 22 faculty members following the addition of two new professors to its ranks.  Both newcomers – Deian Stefan and Aaron Schulman – joined the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) faculty as assistant professors recently, with Stefan starting to teach last fall, and Schulman this winter.

New UC San Diego Seminar Series Provides Invaluable Resource to the Region

March 3, 2017

UC San Diego Research Affairs –The Office of Innovation and Commercialization launches the first of an eighteen-month entrepreneurial seminar series, free and open to anyone at UC San Diego and the general public, including members of any other research institutions, Mar. 9.

UC San Diego Launches Online Courses with edX to Advance Careers in Data Science

February 28, 2017

Description UC San Diego is creating four courses in Data Science as part of a new MicroMasters® program offered via the edX nonprofit online learning destination. Instructors from the Computer Science and Engineering department are leading the effort, and video modules for the courses are being produced in the HD Studio of the Qualcomm Institute.

UC San Diego Organizes 2017 Workshop on Big Data and the Earth Sciences

February 24, 2017

Researchers in earth sciences and information technology at UC San Diego are organizing a three-day Grand Challenges workshop May 31 to June 2 in La Jolla, Calif., on the topic of “Big Data and the Earth Sciences.”
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