Device guides vehicles, battles
With an increasing number of unmanned vehicles taking up
positions on the modern battlefield, UCLA researchers are designing
a portable, rapidly deployable network that will allow these
robotic agents to communicate.
The Multimedia Intelligent Network of Unattended Mobile Agents,
or Minuteman, a portable airborne network system, will provide
local communications for the increasing array of unmanned air
vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles. This agile, dynamic
“Internet in the sky” will support the demanding
communications requirements of unmanned missions, according to
Mario Gerla, UCLA professor of computer science at the Henry
Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.
“Minuteman will enable the Navy to bring fully networked
force to the battlefield,” Gerla said. “This will be
the “˜glue’ that holds together supporting technologies
such as mission planning, path planning, reasoning, decision making
and distributed real-time computing and control.”
Medical chapter wins award
The UCLA Premedical Chapter of American Medical Student
Association sponsored by the UCLA Career Center was awarded the
first annual Premedical Chapter Advocacy Award at AMSA’s 52nd
National Convention in Houston, Texas.
With its creative programming, the UCLA Premedical Chapter
exemplified AMSA’s commitment to the problems of the
medically undeserved, inequities in the American health-care
system, and related issues in medical education.
“We at AMSA believe it is very important to address these
issues and educate our future-physicians about health care
disparities, so that positive changes will occur,” said Lisa
Tseng, AMSA’s National Premedical Associate Trustee and
External President of UCLA Premedical AMSA.
Donor awareness week hits UCLA
In order to raise awareness for the lack of donors in the
community, members of the Be Carded organization staged a speak-out
in Westwood Plaza Tuesday and will continue activities throughout
the week.
As students passed out ice cream bars to attract bystanders,
members of the Echo Column band played.
The band’s saxophone player, Terry Harrington, had a heart
transplant four months ago.
Be Carded member Angela Marquez, a fifth-year history student,
said there are currently 80 thousand people waiting for an organ
and only six thousand transplants each year.
Reports from Daily Bruin staff and wire services.