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UC San Diego Contributes $7.2 Billion to California Economy
October 1, 2008

Jacobs School of Engineering faculty and alumni have played an important role in UC San Diego's...

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Andrew Viterbi, Wireless Pioneer and UC San Diego Professor Emeritus, Wins National Medal of Science
October 1, 2008

  This week, wireless pioneer and UC San Diego professor emeritus Andrew Viterbi received a ...

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Free Software Helps You Track Your Laptop If Stolen or Lost
September 30, 2008

  Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego ha...

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Generation Innovation: UC San Diego Researchers Win $3M in NIH New Innovator Awards
September 22, 2008

  At 30, Karen Christman, an assistant bioengineering professor at the UC San Diego Jaco...

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MAE Undergrad Goes Nano and Makes the Cut
September 15, 2008

  Michael Clark, an aerospace engineering major at the Jacobs School, joined Calit2’s ...

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Intel Donates 200 Microprocessors to Promote Calit2's Visualization Research at UC San Diego
September 8, 2008

Intel Corp. is donating $128,000 worth of advanced microprocessors to Calit2 and Jacobs School profe...

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UC San Diego, USC and UCLA Awarded NSF Grant to Study Fundamentals of Cyber-Physical Systems
August 29, 2008

 A coalition of computer scientists from UC San Diego, UCLA and USC have been awarded...

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UC San Diego GreenLight Project to Improve Energy Efficiency of Computing
August 25, 2008

 The information technology industry consumes as much energy and has roughly the same carbon &#...

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UC San Diego Engineers Part of Nationwide Effort to Make Buildings Earthquake Safe
August 20, 2008

Engineering researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Arizona have concluded three months ...

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New Algorithm Significantly Boosts Routing Efficiency of Networks
August 19, 2008

 A new algorithm developed by computer scientists from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of En...

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Computer Scientists Propose New Data Center Architecture Based on Commodity Network Elements
August 19, 2008

Computer scientists at the UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering have proposed a new way...

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Hollywood Hair is Captured at Last: Details in SIGGRAPH 2008 Paper
August 13, 2008

University of California, San Diego today announced a new method for accurately capturing the shape ...

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Bioengineer Shyni Varghese Awarded $2.3M Grant for Stem Cell Research
August 13, 2008

Bioengineering Professor Shyni Varghese is one of five UC San Diego researchers and physicians award...

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UC San Diego-based iBotics Team Competes in Underwater Unmanned Vehicle Competition
August 12, 2008

The San Diego iBotics team, led by Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student Gideon Prior an...

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Images for 3D Video Games Without High Price Tags or Stretch Marks
August 11, 2008

The images of rocks, clouds, marble and other textures that serve as background images and details f...

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