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- MIT students making solar power realistic
- MIT students making solar power realisticno kiddingIn fact, the researchers believe that, because they can concentrate the heat from the sun so intensely, any water run near the focus could easily be vaporized to run a turbine and generate electricity.For crying out loud.I'm getting so tired of this.Here's all you...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, UCSD, Peak-Power, solar energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SolarCity
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Predicting drug side effects
- It would certainly be nice for the pharmaceutical industry to identify potential side effects of a drug before it starts to be tested on humans. Now, a research team at the University of California, San Diego UCSD might have found a solution. They have developed a new computational technique to...
- Tags: Technology Review, Protein, Drug, Molecule, UCSD, Philip Bourne, Tamoxifen, Team Management, Productivity, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- Sun's Blackbox shakes and bakes
- Sun has been earthquake testing its datacenter housed in a shipping container--Project Blackbox at the University of San Diego UCSD, which has a "shake table," more formally known as a Seismic Response Modification Device.The video shows Project Blackbox shocked by a 6.7 magnitude earthquake. It survived with some detached...
- Tags: Sun, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- A really smart image search engine
- When you search for images on the Web, you use a search engine which relies on the text associated with the pictures -- and not on the images themselves. So the results are sometimes unsatisfactory. But this soon might change because engineers from UC San Diego UCSD have developed new...
- Tags: Social Sciences, Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Catching photons coming from the moon
- In "Shooting the moon," the San Diego Union-Tribune describes how and why physicists from UCSD are using lasers to send light pulses in direction of an array of reflectors installed on our moon in 1969 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. One of the goals of these experiments is to...
- Tags: moon, laser
- Blog posts 2006-07-14
- How to generate trillions of useful proteins
- Scientists from the University of California at San Diego UCSD have discovered a new way to generate proteins. They found that a single organism, a virus that infects bacteria, called a bacteriophage, or phage, can produce 10 trillion varieties of a single protein via a single mechanism. This protein copying...
- Tags: protein
- Blog posts 2005-10-01
- University of California Engages, Connects Students and Faculty, and Enhances Learning With Wireless Mobile Devices
- Since its founding four decades ago, UCSD has rapidly become one of the top institutions in the nation for higher education and scientific exploration. UCSD's interdisciplinary ethos, combined with its tradition of innovation and risk-taking, underlies the campus' research prowess as well as its ability to recruit top scholars and...
- Tags: Mobile, Mobile Computing, Student, Mobile Device, University Of California, UCSD, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Marketing, Hardware
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- Large Hadron Collider will put academic networks to the test
- The Large Hadron Collider LHC will be coming online this summer when its construction is complete outside of Geneva. Run by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the collider will be the largest facility of its type, designed to detect new types of subatomic particles, generate previously unseen...
- Tags: CERN, Network, Data, Internet2, Networking, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- A new way to improve computer graphics
- Computer scientists at the University of California in San Diego UCSD have developed a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics which dramatically cuts computing costs for generating bright images. They've used 'photon mapping' algorithms, a subset of the more computationally intensive ray tracing algorithms -- and with better results....
- Tags: Algorithm, Light, Computer Graphics, Image, Computer, Engineering, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- How to try 4,000 makeup products online
- Two researchers of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California at San Diego UCSD have used their skills in computer graphics to build a new free service on the web named Taaz. According to the computer scientists, Taaz is 'derived from the Hindi word Taaza, meaning fresh,...
- Tags: Women, Vision, Image, Computer, Makeup Product, Taaz, Taaz.com, Productivity, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-22
- Internet maps are blooming
- It is important to understand network topology to predict its performance and its resilience to attacks. This is why computer scientists at UC San Diego have developed new algorithms which create Internet maps. Their maps -- looking like digital dandelions -- show Internet nodes and their linkages. But they are...
- Tags: Network Topology, Internet, Network, Goal, Topology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-02
- Erasing hard drives
- Having read How to REALLY erase a hard drive by my ZDNet blogging colleague Robin Harris, I though Id share my views about erasing hard drives.When getting rid of old PCs or hard drives, people tend to fall into one of three categories:Just chuck it outThese folks just throw out...
- Tags: Thoughts, Security, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Nanowire photodetectors
- According to researchers at the University of California at San Diego UCSD, semiconducting nanowires can be used to build perfect light detectors with single-photon sensitivity. The zinc oxide ZnO nanowires theyve used are ideally suited to develop "new photodetector architectures for sensing, imaging, memory storage, intrachip optical communications and other...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet
- Blog posts 2007-04-29
- Sun converts carbon dioxide into fuel
- We all know that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has a major impact on the Earth climate. But now, chemists at the University of California at San Diego UCSD have developed "a device that can capture energy from the sun, convert it to electrical energy and...
- Tags: Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment
- Blog posts 2007-04-22
- Shaking a 275-ton building
- If you want to predict how a tall building can resist to an earthquake, some researchers have better tools than others. Engineers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center SDSC have built a full-size 275-ton building and really shaken it to obtain earthshaking images. The building was equipped with some 600...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet, Science &, Nature, Energy &, Environment
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Building a Better Spam Trap
- According to Wikipedia, there are about 3,500 species of cockroaches. Once your house is infested, cockroaches are near impossible to get rid of. Spam is to e-communication as cockroaches are to dwellings. One species of spam is called image spam. Email messages can contain a link to the spammy image...
- Tags: Spam, Security, Messaging, Email
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- NASA's Mars life-detector
- With the financial help of NASA, American and European researchers have developed a new sensor to check for life on Mars. It also should be able to determine if traces of lifes molecular building blocks have been produced by anything alive. The device has already been tested in the Atacama...
- Tags: Harold Urey, life-detector, NASA
- Blog posts 2007-03-11
- UCSD Libraries Web 2.0 Workshop: Week 3 - RSS/Podcasts
- RSS is a way to keep up with new/updated content on many websites (2.0 & otherwise) without checking and to repackage or redistribute that content for using elsewhere.
- Tags: Web, RSS, Web 2.0, Podcasts, Internet
- Presentations 2007-02-23
- An 'origami lens' for your camera phone?
- Your next camera phone might get a new kind of lens if researchers at the University of California at San Diego convince the cell phones makers. They have designed an origami lens which will slim high resolution cameras. Today, their 5-millimeter thick, 8-fold imager delivers images comparable in quality with...
- Tags: camera, Engineering &, Innovation, Wireless &, Telecom
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Gaming effort to get girls into science
- The University of California San Diego UCSD and the San Diego Supercomputer Center have joined forces to launch a new program targeting middle-school girls to get them interested in science education, reports Photonics.com The new partnership will focus on helping San Diego County students monitor the air quality, solar...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, K-12, Science Ed, San Diego Supercomputer Center, game
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
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