October 9, 2019
MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at SDSC have developed a new machine learning system to identify “serial hijackers” of internet IP addresses.
May 7, 2015
…Research Day. In a series of face-to-face meetings, graduate students from each UC campus sat down with lawmakers and their staff to give them a better sense of the work they do and why their work is vital to California and its residents. “It’s critical that state legislators understand the…
May 17, 2018
…May 15 Mini-Symposium featured talks by some of the main authors on aspects of the project they found most interesting. Antibiotics. The gut microbiomes of American Gut Project participants who reported that they took antibiotics in the past month (139 people) were, as predicted, less diverse than people who reported…
March 19, 2013
It’s March 2013 – 50 years after Betty Friedan’s explosive book launched feminism’s “second wave,” 41 after Title IX, the equal-opportunity amendment banning sex discrimination in education, was signed into law – and some exceptionally successful women are making a lot of news. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…
January 24, 2019
…the center of a talk from Admiral Scott Swift, former commander of the Pacific Fleet, to members of the San Diego community on Jan. 16. At the event, which was the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation’s (IGCC) Herb York Memorial Lecture and part of the UC San Diego…
September 10, 2020
…with Yearlong Celebration A series of signature events featuring acclaimed American authors has been organized in honor of the Geisel Library building’s golden anniversary, including talks by authors Tara Westover and Kevin Young. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Geisel Library is considered by many to be the most recognizable building…
September 8, 2021
SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, influenza, measles, and the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold can all spread via aerosols that can build up in indoor air and linger for hours, an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers has reported in a review published in the journal Science.
February 26, 2020
A comparison of normal and germ-free mice revealed that as much as 70 percent of a mouse’s gut chemistry is determined by its gut microbiome. Even in distant organs, such as the uterus or the brain, approximately 20 percent of molecules were different in the mice with gut microbes.
May 23, 2019
…he is offering a series of classes on power systems in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This quarter, he is teaching a class on power grid resilience for adverse conditions, a one-of-a-kind-course based on the textbook he authored, which was endorsed by North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the…
May 22, 2014
…the TV medical comedy-drama series “Scrubs.” What he had was Kawasaki disease (KD), a largely mysterious condition that can result in permanent damage to blood vessels and is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children. “The website kdfoundation.org helped save his life,” Chalke said. “It clearly listed…
