Recent News

• Webmonkey.com - Historical Map Mashups Turn Cities Into Glass Onions of Time
  21-MAY-09
  Press coverage on HyperCities at the Where 2.0 Conference.
  
  
• Science Daily - Ancient Egypt Brought To Life With Virtual Model Of Historic Temple Complex
  30-APR-09
  Press coverage on the Digital Karnak project.
  
  
• The Chronicle of Higher Education - UCLA professors use Virtual Reality to explore ancient Egypt
  24-APR-09
  Press coverage on the Digital Karnak project.
  
  
• USA Today - Egyptian Temple of Karnak virtually restored
  22-APR-09
  Press coverage on the Digital Karnak project.
  
  
• UCLA Today - Team's re-creation of ancient Karnak brings history of pharaohs to life
  21-APR-09
  Press coverage on the Digital Karnak project.
  
  
• UCLA TODAY- Major breakthrough to cut years off time on the Grid
  06-APR-09
  Press coverage on the UC Grid
  
  
• UCLA Today - Digital Humanities address changing nature of knowledge in seminar featured on Second Life
  02-JAN-09
  Press coverage on a series of Mellon-sponsered "Media, Technology, and Culture” seminars broadcasted on Second Life.
  
  
• Press - Countries, Cultures, Communication: Digital Innovations Day
  10-MAY-07
  Nearly 350 faculty, staff, students and others packed the crowded exhibition space at Perloff Hall, peering at computer monitors, test-driving Web applications, taking notes, and trading ideas and business cards. Visit the Digital Innovations Day Site Other news on the event:
  • UCLA Magazine
  • Doc Searls Weblog
  • Daily Bruin
  • UCLA Impact

• UCLA Today - Applause
  23-JAN-07
  Warren Mori has been appointed director of IDRE.
  
  
• DOE INCITE Program Award
  08-JAN-07
  University of California at Los Angeles will lead research on using computer simulations to answer questions about plasma-based particle accelerators. More on Program Awards...
  
  
• Top 500 Supercomputer Sites - Dawson Cluster Ranks 461st
  JUN-06
  UCLA’s Dawson Physics Cluster has been ranked number 461 of the top 500 computer sites in the world at the International Supercomputer Conference held in Dresden, Germany. Dawson Cluster Still in top 500 21/2 years later
  
  
• UCLA Today - Shaping the Future of Computing
  28-JUN-05
  UCLA researchers who use computers to do complex calculations, simulations and visualizations to study everything from experimental drugs to global warming will get a boost with the recent formation of the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE). It will foster multidisciplinary research engaging faculty campuswide.
  
  
• Top 500 Supercomputer Sites - Dawson Cluster Ranks 162nd
  JUN-05
  UCLA’s Dawson Physics Cluster has been ranked number 162 of the top 500 computer sites in the world at the International Supercomputer Conference held in Heidelberg Germany. Dawson Cluster Ranks 162
  
  
• Dauger Research - 128-Xserve G5 Cluster Achieves 1.21 TeraFlop
  11-JAN-05
  The Plasma Physics Group at UCLA acquired 128 Xserve G5s to create the new "Dawson" high-performance parallel computing cluster to advance plasma physics research. Read Dauger Research Announcement...