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Jan 25, 2022
From Coffee Cart to Educational Computing Platform
By Daniel Kane In classic UC San Diego fashion, an overheard conversation at a campus coffee cart has turned into an interdisciplinary project that's making computing-intensive coursework more exciting while saving well over one million dollars so far. The effort—now being used in numerous...Read More
Jan 21, 2022
UC SAN DIEGO RECEIVES $14M TO DRIVE PRECISION NUTRITION WITH GUT MICROBIOME DATA
By Scott LaFee The National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s All of Us Research Program is a national effort to build a large, diverse database of 1 million or more people whom researchers can use to study health and disease. The NIH is now awarding $170 million in grant funding to centers across...Read More
Jan 19, 2022
Two UC San Diego Computer Scientists Named as 2021 ACM Fellows
By Katie E. Ismael Two computer scientists from the University of California San Diego have been elected as fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the association announced today. They are among the 71 new fellows recognized by the ACM, the world’s largest educational...Read More
Jan 4, 2022
Long-Reads and Powerful Algorithms Identify “Invisible” Microbes
By Josh Baxt Microbes are everywhere – in our guts, on our skin, permeating the environments around us. Studying these microbial communities has delivered tremendous insights into disease and good health, but identifying all the distinct species in a sample can be challenging. Now, a study by...Read More
Dec 20, 2021
The Router in Your Home Might be Intercepting Some of Your Internet Traffic--But it May be For Your Own Good
The router in your home might be intercepting some of your Internet traffic and sending it to a different destination. Specifically, the router can intercept the Domain Name System traffic --the communications used to translate human-readable domain names (for example www.google.com) into the...Read More
Dec 20, 2021
The Newest Deep Minds of UC San Diego’s CSE
By Katie E. Ismael UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) is proud to introduce the newest class of DeepMind Fellows. These fellowships were made possible by a generous gift from DeepMind, a London-based leader in artificial intelligence (AI) research and how it’...Read More
Dec 13, 2021
Imani Munyaka: Improving the Human Experience
By Kimberley Clementi We are all vulnerable to cybersecurity threats. It’s endemic to our digital era. Still, an individual’s race, gender or age could increase their susceptibility – especially in specific settings. So might a physical disability, cognitive impairment or even one’s...Read More
Dec 10, 2021
Shape-Shifting Accelerator Chips Offer Greener Way to Meet AI Demand
By Josh Baxt Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and MIT will be developing a new generation of multi-tenant, fast, efficient and environmentally friendly accelerator chips to help meet exploding demand for artificial intelligence thanks to a new grant from the...Read More
Dec 7, 2021
Who's Got Your Mail? Google and Microsoft, Mostly
By Ioana Patringenaru Who really sends, receives and, most importantly perhaps, stores your business’ email? Most likely Google and Microsoft, unless you live in China or Russia. And the market share for these two companies keeps growing. That’s the conclusion reached by a group of...Read More
Dec 6, 2021
This Framework Will Improve the Security of all Firefox Users
Researchers from the University of California San Diego, the University of Texas at Austin, and Mozilla have designed a new framework, called RLBox, to make the Firefox browser more secure. Mozilla has started deploying RLBox on all Firefox platforms this week. RLBox increases browser security by...Read More