iPhone app mentioned on The Wired Campus blog

I was just hitting the RSS feeds that this blog links to, and I noticed that the Chronicle of Higher Education's The Wired Campus blog covered the story out this week at UC San Diego has its own iPhone app.

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3832/u-of-california-at-san-diego-gets-an-iphone-application

Microwave Week is UC San Diego Week

Calit2's Doug Ramsey has a nice wrap up of the strong presence the electrical engineers at the Jacobs School and Calit2 had at Microwave Week in Boston.

Read Doug's piece here on the Calit2 blog.

Jason May and Gabriel Rebeiz's work toward cheaper imagers for detecting concealed weapons got coverage in EETimes.

Flinker video: ENSPIRE: one way Jacobs School Undergrads are Amazing

Remember Engineers Week? Remember the 400 plus 8th graders who swarmed campus with their neon green shirts and left with an idea of how exciting it is to both go to college and study engineering?

Well, if you need a reminder of what ENSPIRE is all about, check out the two minute video embedded below. It's a student-run event organized by TESC the Triton Engineering Student Council. Read the story at the Jacobs School site.

I have also listed all the Jacobs School web stories that are focused on undergrads. Check it out, and send me links to other interesting projects Jacobs School undergrads are involved in both inside and outside the classroom.





Fluid Dynamics Research to Make Peeing in Space More Comfortable and Sanitary

Toward Cheap Underwater Sensor Nets

Junkyard Dreams: UC San Diego Students Vie for Winning Derby Status

Robotic Mouse Makes Maze Debut at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

UCSD Engineering Students Drive Into the Future With Electric Racecar

Steel Bridge Designed and Built by Jacobs School Undergrads Finds Home at UCSD Library

Jacobs School Students to Compete in Battle of the Brains in Stockholm

UC San Students Lift 'Dow Jones' For Annual Engineering Competition

Employers Mine UC San Diego for NextGen Engineers

E-Games 2009 Highlight Coolness of Engineering

Will a Mechanical Engineering Undergrad Win the Best Book Collection Prize Three Years in a Row?

UC San Diego Engineering Students Launch Cockroaches and Cameras Into Space

UC San Diego Engineering Students Create 'Wall of Widgets' for Mobile Internet

Jacobs School Water Conservation Research Makes Headlines around the World

Hands-on Engineering Design Course Presentations: Monitoring Heart Rate Variability and More

Intro to Computer Programming Gets a Makeover

Chemical Engineering Student Wins Library Research Prize

MAE Undergrad Goes Nano and Makes the Cut

HPWREN

The High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) is a National Science Foundation funded network research project, which also functions as a collaborative cyberinfrastructure on research, education, and first responder activities.

HPWREN has a consistent stream of interesting news updates available online (or you can sign up to get them via email).

The HPWREN 2008 summary video is here.

The HPWREN project includes creating, demonstrating, and evaluating a non-commercial, prototype, high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties. The network includes backbone nodes at the UC San Diego and San Diego State University campuses, and a number of "hard to reach" areas in remote environments.

UCSD Expression Detection Technology in May/June 2009 issue of Technology Review

The history of CERT, the expression detection software that is behind a long list of fascinating research projects at UC San Diego's Machine Perception Laboratory, is outlined in an interesting Technology Review article by Mark Williams. The inventor of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) that is behind CERT is involved in a TV show called "Lie to Me"...and that is probably part of what led to this story... (You have to register for free to read the article online at Technology Review.)

Computer science PhD student Jacob Whitehill used CERT in his 2008 proof of concept research that "turns your face into a remote control."

I am working on a press release for another computer science PhD who uses CERT in his work. I hope to have that posted later this week. Any reporters out there want the scoop early? send me an email.

Jacobs undergrads inspire local 8th graders

Undergraduates from the Jacobs School of Engineering have just finished classes for the 2008-2009 school year, but their legacy continues. One of the many ways in which the undergraduate of the Jacobs School have touched the lives of future generations is through ENSPIRE—an annual student-run event in which hundreds of 8th graders come to campus for the day to taste life as an engineering undergrad.

ENSPIRE is part of Engineer’s Week and is organized by the undergraduates who run TESC (Triton Engineering Student Council).

I'm still vetting the video below...see anything that needs to be changed? Let me know.

UCSD has an iPhone app

This is from the San Diego Union Tribune:

UCSD crafts iPhone 'app' for campus information

LA JOLLA: UC San Diego is jumping on the iPhone bandwagon.

The La Jolla campus has created a software application for the touch-screen device that gives students and others direct access to course schedules, campus maps and other university information.

The free application joins the tens of thousands of other applications that have been created for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch over the past year.

Stanford University and other academic institutions have also created applications for the handheld gadgets, but UCSD says it's the first public university to offer such a comprehensive “app” linked to the latest campus information.

For more information about the application and download instructions, go to iphone.ucsd.edu.

Does anyone know about any cool apps made by UC San Diego students? The Web site says that the app serves up video.