News Releases
Primate Sperm Competition: Speed Matters
September 25, 2007
UC San Diego and UC Irvine researchers have reported that sperm cells from the more promiscuou...
Making Buildings Safer from Nonstructural Earthquake Damage
September 25, 2007
NSF's Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation has awarded a $3.6 million grant to study th...
Donors Forge New Group to Support UC San Diego Center Championing Scientific Approach to Preserving Artistic Treasures
September 22, 2007
Private donors working closely with the JAcobs School have established "Friends of CISA3" -- a phila...
Learning How Embryonic Stem Cells Become Heart Cells
September 13, 2007
Three teams of San Diego scientists are using a comprehensive new systems-biology approach to learn ...
Computer Scientists Take the Why out of WiFi
September 4, 2007
UCSD computer scientists have designed a system that automatically analyzes the behavior of al...
Controlling Bandwidth in the Clouds
August 28, 2007
If half your company’s bandwidth is allocated to your mirror in New York, and it’s...
Computer Science Grad Lands on TR 35 List
August 21, 2007
Tadayoshi (Yoshi) Kohno – the wave-making computer security expert with a computer science Ph....
Medical Devices Affinity Group Meets to Brainstorm New Technologies
August 9, 2007
Nearly 40 researchers, clinicians, basic scientists and engineers from the Jacobs School, Calit...
Render Smoke and Fog without being a Computation Hog
August 8, 2007
Computer scientists from UC San Diego have developed a way to generate images like smoke-fill...
UCSD Computer Scientists Shed Light on Internet Scams
August 6, 2007
Computer scientists from UC San Diego have found striking differences between the infrastr...
Computer Graphics Spills from Milk to Medicine
August 6, 2007
A new UC San Diego computer graphics model capable of generating realistic milk images based on the ...
How Cells Change the Pace of Their Steps
August 3, 2007
Scientists at UCSD have discovered how cells of higher organisms change the speed at which they move...
SIGGRAPH in San Diego: Graphics, Video and Rock
August 3, 2007
American Idol and Comic-Con have come and gone, but fun in San Diego’s summer sun has just beg...
Ten New Faculty Members Join Jacobs School
August 1, 2007
The Jacobs School of Engineering is adding 10 faculty members who will enhance the school̵...