Remote Control Built into your Face

Remote control built into your face! Above is a 2008 video of a smile detector project from the UC San Diego MPLab. The project is referenced in a new Calit2 story about the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center here at UC San Diego.

Natural Reserve Videos from UC San Diego

I was poking around the UC San Diego Research Affairs site and stumbled on this collection of videos about various natural researves tied to UC San Diego. (The first video I clicked on required some buffering...but it was worth the wait...I learned about a protective seed pod that looks just like a "spiky loofah". The "spiky loofah" is from a plant called a "cucamonga manroot". The video is here: http://research.ucsd.edu/media/video/UCSDResearchVideo.aspx?v2Play=scripps_08.mov

Boris Babenko Bags Google Fellowship

Boris Babenko bagged the 2010 Google Fellowship in Computer Vision. Nice work!

Below is video from the 2009 Jacobs School of Rock concert at Porter's Pub here at UC San Diego. Babenko is performing at about the 18-second mark.

Smoke-Tracking Robots

Above and below are images from today's morning test of the smoke-tracking robots from the Bewley robotics lab in the MAE department here at the Jacobs School. This morning, the mechanical engineers tested their robots along with complex controls systems in a proof-of-concept systems integration test.

The student below is MAE Ph.D. student Nick Morozovsky, the lead student on this project.

Smoke Tracking Robots in the Parking Lot Tomorrow Morning

Friday July 29. Smoke tracking robots in a campus parking lot! details here

Glucose Monitor Story on Front Page of the San Diego Union Tribune

Keith Darce's story on the glucose sensor from UC San Diego and GlySens is on the front page of the San Diego Union Tribune today: July 29, 2010

Glucose Sensor Story on KPBS today

News of a long-term wireless glucose monitoring system is flying through the air today -- literally. The KPBS airwaves are carrying the UC San Diego / GlySens story by Tom Fudge. Take a listen on the KPBS Web site.