San Diego
UC San Diego officially dedicated its new Center for Magnetic Recording Research on Thursday. The center is a specialized project for studying ways to improve magnetic recording, especially the development of techniques to increase the storage capacity of data-processing equipment, personal computers and videotape recorders.
The center offers undergraduate and graduate courses in a $5-million building, on the north side of the campus, equipped with laboratories and a library. The UCSD center is one of only two specialized magnetic recording research laboratories outside Japan. The other is at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Major American companies involved in video and data equipment have pledged $10 million to the center, and the University of California has allocated $2 million to endow four professorships.
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