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NOURISH reimagines the food business to try to prevent food deserts
22 April 2024
In the Mountain View neighborhood of San Diego there’s a small mall on Imperial Avenue. It has a Home Depot, Kentucky Fried Chicken, a Sizzler and a dollar store that’s going out of business. What you don’t see is any full service grocery store…
Using AI and Data Science to ReNOURISH Food Deserts
4 April 2024
Twenty-four million Americans live in food deserts where ultraprocessed foods are abundant and fresh food is scarce, giving rise to large health disparities in diabetes and related cardiometabolic diseases. To address this problem..
UC San Diego Developing AI Platform to Help Combat Food Deserts
23 May 2024
Millions of Americans, including many in underserved San Diego communities, live in food deserts where ultra-processed foods are abundant and fresh food is scarce, giving rise to large health disparities.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from UC San Francisco and UC San Diego are studying this problem in hopes of combating it via a conceptualized NOURISH AI platform. Now, armed with continued federal funding, a team of experts has moved into the platform-building phase of a food desert project….
SDSC and University of Utah Pioneer $6M National Data Platform for Equitable Scientific Research
6 March 2024
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and the University of Utah (Utah) have announced a national-scale pilot project, called the National Data Platform (NDP), aimed at a service ecosystem to make access to and use of scientific data open and equitable across a broad range of communities, including traditionally underrepresented researchers…
Women Produce Skin Temperature Data that are Just as Predictable as Men
9 Nov 2023
Women produce physiological data that is just as predictable as men, at least when it comes to skin temperature. This might seem like common sense, but variations in body signals due to menstrual cycles, such as temperature, were used as an excuse to keep women out of clinical studies for decades.
The data for the finding was gathered from a wearable device to continuously monitor the skin temperature of 600 people, half female and half male, over six months.
The team found that there were more differences…
New AI Platform Addresses Challenge of Food Deserts in Low-Income Communities
29 March 2023
An innovative food and nutrition project is uniquely combining artificial intelligence (AI) and social enterprise business models to help address the challenge of food deserts in the U.S. These are places across the country where supermarkets are more than one mile away in urban neighborhoods or 10 miles away in rural communities. Residents in these places often turn to nearby mini-marts and fast-food stands where food items can be more expensive and/or less healthy. To address this problem, the new project aims to develop an AI-powered platform called NOURISH…
Smart Ring Constantly Measures Temperature Could Provide Early Warning of Covid-19 Infection
14 Dec 2020
A smart ring that constantly measures your temperature could help determine whether you are developing Covid-19 – even if your symptoms are very subtle.
Experts from the University of California and MIT Lincoln Lab studied data on 50 people who owned sensor rings and had had Covid-19 before the study.
This was the first study to publish data from a project called TeamPredict – a study of more than 65,000 people wearing the Oura ring made by a Finnish startup that records temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate and levels of activity…
‘Sustained and Ongoing’ Disinformation Assault Targets Dem Presidential Candidates
20 Feb 2020
A wide-ranging disinformation campaign aimed at Democratic 2020 candidates is already underway on social media, with signs that foreign state actors are driving at least some of the activity.
The main targets appear to be Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), four of the most prominent announced or prospective candidates for president.
A POLITICO review of recent data extracted from Twitter and from other platforms…
SDSC Researcher Amarnath Gupta Named an ACM Distinguished Scientist
1 Dec 2011
Amarnath Gupta, a researcher with the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been named a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
The Distinguished Scientist grade recognizes ACM members who have at least 15 years of professional experience and five years of continuous professional membership, and whose accomplishments in and impact on the computing field have been significant…
Videos
DSC 100: Intro to Data Management
26 Feb 2020
Amarnath Gupta lectures on query optimization: the process of choosing a suitable execution strategy for processing a query.
Big Data Integration and Processing
19 Jul 2017
Video lecture content from the online course “Big Data Integration and Processing”, taught by Ilkay Altintas and Amarnath Gupta. Does not contain interactive exercises.
In Search of a Missing Link in the Data Deluge vs. Data Scarcity Debate
28 Oct 2012
Workshop lecture at Neuroinformatics 2012 in Munich, Germany. Workshop: If There is a Data Deluge, Where are the Data?