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SDSC Welcomes ‘Gordon’ Supercomputer as a Research Powerhouse

December 13, 2011

…Help Solve Large Data-Intensive Science Challenges‎ SDSC’s Gordon Supercomputer. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications When it officially comes online in early January, Gordon, a unique new supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), will help researchers tackle the most vexing data-intensive challenges, from mapping genomes for personalized…

Innovative Researchers Share Ground-breaking Research with Packed House at Founders’ Symposium

November 20, 2012

…brain to computer interfaces. Coleman is excited about turning science fiction into reality! By the audience reaction, the retooled Founders’ Symposium format was a success. This tweet summed it up well:

UC San Diego Leads Sessions on Climate Change, Space, and Neuroscience at SXSW 2023

March 7, 2023

At the 2023 South by Southwest(SXSW) conference, which runs March 10-14, scientists and leaders from UC San Diego will contribute their expertise to programming on climate change, space, health, and blue technology.

Engineers, Visual Artists and Medical Device Researchers Mix in New UC San Diego Building

September 6, 2012

Making buildings and bridges safer during earthquakes. Printed 3-D blood vessels and capillaries for regenerative medicine. Safer cardiac pumps for children born with heart defects. Giant art collections sorted with a click. Better composite materials for aircraft. In the new Structural and Materials Engineering building at the University of California,…

Interns with UC San Diego NeuroDiversity in Tech Program Find Community at the Qualcomm Institute

September 14, 2023

Interns with the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute’s NeuroDiversity in Tech program learn the skills to thrive in the technology industry.

Qualcomm Institute Launches Third Season of Tech-Enabled Performances

May 20, 2015

…Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS). The interdisciplinary work, titled CrowdCAVE, will use two of the Qualcomm Institute’s key visualization spaces: the StarCAVE virtual-reality environment, where small groups of visitors are surrounded by a virtual crowd to which they are added; and the large-scale Vroom display wall next door in…

Holocaust Living History Workshop Series Continues at UC San Diego in 2023

January 17, 2023

The University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) 2022-23 series continues with six events that underscore this year’s theme, “Rethinking Genocide: Fascism, Exploitation and the Holocaust.”

Performance Series at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute Enters Fourth Season

October 7, 2016

…by the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS) following a peer-review competition open to faculty and graduate students in Music, Theatre and Dance and Visual Arts, as well as any engineering discipline.

Language Crafters

April 25, 2013

…language theory with experimental science. It is now a leading center in the use of neuroimaging and computational modeling, in addition to behavioral methods. The late UC San Diego linguist Margaret Langdon helped to write the first Kumeyaay dictionary. She and her students had close ties to many of the…

Actual Reality Beckons at Conference on Future of Virtual Reality

October 21, 2015

Virtual reality has become a lightning rod, with opinions split on the substance and relevance of its future applications. UC San Diego’s recent “Future of Virtual Reality” conference demonstrated that this technology has far-reaching potential—not only in the realm of gaming, but in fields like archaeology and medicine as well.

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