UCLA History: Gift
The Air Force gives the UCLA engineering department an X-7 missile in 1959.
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UCLA History: ID
A 1959 UCLA student ID card.
UCLA History: Chavez
Photo shows Cesar Chavez speaking at UCLA at a Cinco de Mayo event in 1979.
UCLA History: Ralph Bunche
On the left is the graduation photo of Ralph Bunche, the famed African American diplomat after whom Bunche Hall is named. Bunche was an undergraduate at the old Vermont Avenue campus of UCLA. Someone with Bunche’s mediation and diplomatic skills might be needed today by UCLA to find a solution to the embarrassing hotel problem it created yesterday at the Regents. See yesterday’s two posts on that matter. Too bad he’s not around to help. ===Yours truly will be on an airplane today and unable to report on the Regents session, including what they do with the hotel. The UCLA…
UCLA History: Two Presidents
In February 1964, a temporary stadium on campus was built for speeches by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateo.
UCLA History: Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg attended UCLA 1929-34 and received a BA in Chemistry. He went on to Berkeley and received a PhD. Later he received the Nobel Prize in chemistry and chaired the Atomic Energy Commission during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.
UCLA History: Westwood Movies
The Fox Theater in Westwood near UCLA in the 1940s. Same view at present with theater partially hidden by trees on Broxton Avenue.
UCLA History: Painting
Painting of UCLA, circa 1930, by local artist Chris Siemer.
UCLA History: Similar View
This photo of a UCLA scene looks as if it could have been taken recently. Actually, it was taken in 1929 when the Westwood campus had just opened. Most of what is now UCLA had not been built but the view from Royce across to Powell back then is about the same as it is today.
Judea Pearl Wins ACM Turing Award for Artificial Intelligence Work
The commercial news media picked up a story that appeared online in yesterday’s UCLA Today:UCLA professor Judea Pearl has been awarded one of the highest honors in the field of computer science. Pearl was named winner of the 2011 A.M. (sic – should be ACM) Turing Award, which carries a $250,000 prize, for his work in artificial intelligence. Pearl, 75, contributed to the field by developing mathematical formulas that factor in uncertainty. That allows computers to find connections between millions of pieces of data, even when the information is incomplete or vague. His work has made it possible for computers to think more…