Daniel Kane858-534-3262 dbkane@ucsd.edu
Andrea Siedsma
858-822-0899 asiedsma@
soe.ucsd.edu
Doug Ramsey
858-822-5825 dramsey@ucsd.edu
8/25/08
UC San Diego GreenLight Project to Improve Energy Efficiency of Computing
The information technology industry consumes as much energy and has roughly the same carbon “footprint” as the airline industry. Now scientists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego are building an instrument to test the energy efficiency of computing systems under real-world conditions—with the ultimate goal of getting computer designers and users in the scientific community to re-think the way they do their jobs.
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UC San Diego GreenLight Project to Improve Energy Efficiency of Computing
The information technology industry consumes as much energy and has roughly the same carbon “footprint” as the airline industry. Now scientists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego are building an instrument to test the energy efficiency of computing systems under real-world conditions—with the ultimate goal of getting computer designers and users in the scientific community to re-think the way they do their jobs.
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8/20/08UC San Diego Engineers Part of Nationwide Effort to Make Buildings Earthquake Safe
Engineering researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Arizona have concluded three months of rigorous earthquake simulation tests on a half-scale three-story structure, and will now begin sifting through their results so they can be used in the future designs of buildings across the nation.
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8/19/08New Algorithm Significantly Boosts Routing Efficiency of Networks
A new algorithm developed by computer scientists from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering helps answer that question, at least for computer networks; and it promises to significantly boost the efficiency of network routing.
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8/19/08Computer Scientists Propose New Data Center Architecture Based on Commodity Network Elements
Computer scientists at the UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering have proposed a new way to build data centers that could save companies money and deliver more computing capability to end-users.
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8/13/08Hollywood Hair is Captured at Last: Details in SIGGRAPH 2008 Paper
University of California, San Diego today announced a new method for accurately capturing the shape and appearance of a person’s hairstyle. The results closely match the real hairstyles and can be used for animation.
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8/13/08
Bioengineer Shyni Varghese Awarded $2.3M Grant for Stem Cell Research
Bioengineering Professor Shyni Varghese is one of five UC San Diego researchers and physicians awarded New Faculty grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). The new awards, announced today, add $11.5 million to the more than $20 million in funding that researchers at UC San Diego have received from CIRM.
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Bioengineer Shyni Varghese Awarded $2.3M Grant for Stem Cell Research
Bioengineering Professor Shyni Varghese is one of five UC San Diego researchers and physicians awarded New Faculty grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). The new awards, announced today, add $11.5 million to the more than $20 million in funding that researchers at UC San Diego have received from CIRM.
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8/12/08UC San Diego-based iBotics Team Competes in Underwater Unmanned Vehicle Competition
The San Diego iBotics team, led by Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student Gideon Prior and populated primarily by students from the Jacobs School, got "cool points" for its sleek, biomimetic "Stingray" craft at last week's annual competition of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
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8/11/08Images for 3D Video Games Without High Price Tags or Stretch Marks
The images of rocks, clouds, marble and other textures that serve as background images and details for 3D video games are often hand painted and thus costly to generate. A breakthrough from a UC San Diego computer science undergraduate now offers video game developers the possibility of high quality yet lightweight images for 3D video games that are generated “on the fly” and are free of stretch marks, flickering and other artifacts.
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8/12/08
Stingray Underwater Robot
ECE Ph.D. student Gideon Prior, president of the San Diego iBotics student team, talks about the team's sleek unmanned underwater vehicle, the Stingray, and its 11th place finish in a recent international competition.
[iBotics president Gideon Prior describes the Stingray unmanned, underwater vehicle. Length: 2:40]
