The SunCAVE, the World's Highest Resolution Walk-in Virtual Reality Environment, Turns Two

UC San Diego's SunCAVE is the world’s highest resolution walk-in virtual reality environment. It’s one that doctors, archeologists, musicians, computer scientists and students are using to create new means for discovery, healing and...
15-Aug-2019 3:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

App allows inspectors to find gas pump skimmers faster

A team of computer scientists at UC San Diego and the University of Illinois has developed an app that allows state and federal inspectors to detect devices that steal consumer credit and debit card data at gas pumps. The devices, known as skimmers,...
9-Aug-2019 7:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Biologists Pioneer First Method to Decode Gene Expression

Biologists have developed the first system for determining gene expression based on machine learning. Considered a type of genetic Rosetta Stone for biologists, the new method leverages algorithms trained on a set of known plant genes to determine...
10-Aug-2019 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Thinnest optical waveguide channels light within just three layers of atoms

UC San Diego engineers have developed the thinnest optical device in the world—a waveguide that is three layers of atoms thin. The work is a proof of concept for scaling down optical devices to sizes that are orders of magnitude smaller than...
9-Aug-2019 7:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

SDSC Awarded NSF Grant for Triton Shared Computing Cluster Upgrade

The National Science Foundation has awarded the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego a two-year grant worth almost $400,000 to deploy a new system called CC* Compute: Triton Stratus as an enhancement to the existing Triton Shared...
29-Jul-2019 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Addressing Gender Imbalance in Philosophy

Helping to address the significant gender imbalance in the field of philosophy, UC San Diego will once again host the Summer Program for Women in Philosophy, bringing 15 undergraduate students to campus from universities across the United States for...
19-Jul-2019 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

NSF Awards $10 Million to SDSC to Deploy ‘Expanse’ Supercomputer

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego, has been awarded a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) valued $10 million to deploy Expanse, a new supercomputer designed to advance research...
16-Jul-2019 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Get up and go bots getting closer, study says

Robotics researchers at the University of California San Diego have for the first time used a commercial 3D printer to embed complex sensors inside robotic limbs and grippers. But they found that materials commercially available for 3D printing...
16-Jul-2019 8:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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