Jacobs School Electrical and Computer Engineering News: Top Stories

Jacobs School Ranked 9th in the World

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PDT

The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the 9th best in the world for engineering/technology and 15th in the world for computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Electrical Engineers Go Head to Head with Genius

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius – the music recommendation system in Apple’s iTunes – against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs within the same playlist, the researchers found.

Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Boot Camp

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) held its first “Boot Camp” from August 10-22 at UC San Diego.

invent@UCSD Features ECE Professor Ian Galton

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Electrical engineering professor Ian Galton is the featured innovator in the September 2009 issue of “invent@UCSD”—the newsletter of the UC San Diego Technology Transfer Office. Galton leads the Integrated Signal Processing Group within the Jacobs School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Improving Understanding of Nuclear Ignition

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

As the nation’s nuclear weapons are aging (think the beginning of the Cold War), the U.S. government is turning to researchers and scientists at universities such as UC San Diego to figure out safe and reliable ways to estimate their longevity and to understand the physics of thermonuclear reactions in the absence of underground testing currently prohibited under law.

Scalable Energy Efficient Data Centers

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

A UC San Diego-led team of computer scientists and optical interconnection systems technologists in the Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN) is developing Scalable Energy Efficient Data Centers (SEED, for short). It consists of novel optical interconnection technologies for a multi-stage network topology. The goal is to build SEED as an integrated solution encompassing physical layer hardware, protocols and topologies — while offering tomorrow's data centers greater scalability, bisectional bandwidth, fault tolerance and energy efficiency.

NanoTumor Center Video Wins Telly Award for Edu Video

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

The University of California, San Diego NanoTumor Center and NanoTecNexus (NTN) (formerly NanoBioNexus)—a leading nanotech education organization—won the 2009 Bronze Telly Award for the production of a video on approaches to fighting cancer using nanotechnology. The three minute video, entitled “Fighting Cancer with Nanotechnology,” is embedded below and can be viewed at NanoTecNexus, YouTube and around the Web.

Robot Learns to Smile and Frown

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego has learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning. The UC San Diego researchers used machine learning to “empower” their robot to learn to make realistic facial expressions.

Engineering Undergrads Do International Research

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Twenty four Jacobs School undergraduates are among the 33 University of California, San Diego undergraduates working as researchers in laboratories across the Pacific Rim and India this summer.

New Phased Array RFIC for Satellite Systems and Radars

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

High speed SiGe process replaces 8 GaAs chips, lowering cost and increasing integratio