Cubic has pledged to support the establishment of a building at the University of California San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering.
Read More »University of California San Diego to Create Cyber Attack Measuring Tool
The University of California San Diego has received $1.4 million in funds from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to create a tool that will support cybersecurity researchers to monitor internet cyber attack vulnerabilities. DHS said Tuesday UC San Diego’s center for applied internet data analysis will …
Read More »HHS’ ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge
The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the winners of the “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.” HHS said Monday winning papers were selected based on criteria that included proposed systems and recommendations for market viability, capacity to inform …
Read More »DOE to Fund 14 Window Coating Devt Projects Through SHIELD Program
The Energy Department has awarded $31 million in total funds to support 14 window coating and windowpane development projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy's Single-Pane Highly Insulating Efficient Lucid Design program. DOE said Monday ARPA-E's SHIELD program seeks to retrofit single-pane windows through the development of novel window coatings …
Read More »NSF Taps 7 Universities to Create 4 Regional Big Data Hubs; James Kurose Comments
The National Science Foundation has awarded $5 million in grants to seven universities to set up four regional hubs that will work to advance big data developments, Fedscoop reported Monday. Billy Mitchell writes the regional “big data brain trusts“ will work to support programs across the country that seek to facilitate …
Read More »GeoEye Foundation Grantee Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin to be Featured on NatGeo Documentary
The GeoEye Foundation today announced its grantee, University of California San Diego fellow Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin, will be featured on National Geographic Channel‘s broadcast, “Forbidden Tomb of Genghis Khan,”on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011, at 9:00 p.m. The documentary follows Dr. Lin on his journey and unveils recent archeological discoveries …
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