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Sandbox users gather for happy hour at UCLA's Wolfgang Puck Restaurant

Open to UCLA researchers, students, faculty and staff from a variety of disciplines, the Technology Sandbox is a computing facility unlike any other. To gain entry, users must scan their handprint and input a security code à la James Bond. Why so top-secret? Let's just say some pretty cutting-edge digital research is being carried out behind the room's highly secured double doors.

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The NewsScape Project

UCLA Communication Studies Professor Francis Steen is transforming the way we understand the media. He is currently immersed in several exciting research efforts including The NewsScape Project, which he describes as a next-generation interactive visualization of multimedia news.

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UCLA Professor Pushes the Envelope of Particle Physics

Zvi Bern, a professor in the physics department, is pioneering new techniques to analyze particle processes. Featured in national publications such as Scientific American, Bern’s ideas are turning the physics world on its head.

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The Role of the Hoffman2 Cluster in Bioinformatics Research

The Hoffman2 Cluster serves thousands of members of the UCLA research community, allowing them to run multi-level simulations, do complex data analysis and perform large-scale computations. Professor Eleazar Eskin shares how the Hoffman2 has been an invaluable resource in his research.

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