Top Stories http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/ en-us Copyright 2008, Regents of the University of California. soecomm@soe.ucsd.edu soeweb@soe.ucsd.edu {ts '2008-08-25 10:13:27'} {ts '2008-08-25 10:13:27'} 25 Aug 2008 http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=768  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. 20 Aug 2008 http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/uploads/news_release/2008/joseshakeitaug08.jpg http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=766 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. 19 Aug 2008 http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/uploads/news_release/2008/sigcomm_08_savage_news.jpg http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=765  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. 19 Aug 2008 http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/uploads/news_release/2008/vahdat_2008_news.jpg http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=767 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. 13 Aug 2008 http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/uploads/news_release/2008/photobooth_news.jpg http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=763 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. 13 Aug 2008 http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=764 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. 12 Aug 2008 http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/uploads/news_release/2008/stingray_100.jpg http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=762 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. 11 Aug 2008 http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/uploads/news_release/2008/anisotropic_news1.jpg http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=761 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. 30 Jul 2008 http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/uploads/news_release/2008/Hasty_nature_july2008_news.jpg http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=760   25 Jul 2008 http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/uploads/news_release/2008/VL_showcase_news.jpg http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=759  Technologies developed at UC San Diego landed in the spotlight on July 16, 2008 at an entrepreneurship technology showcase organized by UC San Diego’s von Liebig Center.