• Collaborative Agreement Signed

    San Diego State University and Chonbuk National University (CBNU), Korea recently signed an agreement to collaborate on research in the areas of intelligent systems and robotics, and healthcare and medical informatics. The collaborative agreement was signed on August 3, 2009 by SDSU vice president of Graduate Research Affairs, Thomas Scott, and CBNU president, Geo-Suk Suh.…

  • Dr. Rob Edwards teaches a course in Brazil

    Rob Edwards was invited to Brazil this summer to teach a course at the Brazilian National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica). His distinguished co-instructors included faculty members from Ghent and the University of Copenhagen. The course, on microbial genomics and bioinformatics, was attended by students from Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and…

  • Grants Awarded

    Congratulations go out to several of our CS faculty for receiving grant awards this summer! Dr. Mahmoud Tarokh Title: Robotic Helicopter for Monitoring Pollution and Habitat This grant is awarded under Blaskers Science and Technology program. The goal is to develop and test a novel and non-destructive method using a robotic helicopter with autonomous navigation…

  • Dr. Rob Edwards papers published in Nature

    Dr. Rob Edwards has had three papers published this year in the journal Nature. This is truly a remarkable achievement. Nature is one of the premier scientific journals in the world. Since its beginning in 1869, SDSU faculty have published a total of only about 70 papers in Nature; it is rare for the whole…