Dec 17, 2015
Deadline Looms for Applications to Fill CSE Assistant Professor Positions
A key deadline is looming for potential candidates interested in joining the Computer Science and Engineering faculty as Assistant Professors. The deadline is January 1, 2016 for "full consideration," although the jobs will remain open until filled, with a final deadline of June 6. According to...Read More
Dec 17, 2015
CISA3 'Stands Out' for Resaearch on Cultural Heritage Engineering at 2015 Digital Heritage Conference
By Micah Siegel San Diego, Calif., Dec. 17, 2015 — The city of Granada, Spain is steeped in cultural heritage: home to the Alhambra and to world-famous Moorish and Morisco architecture, it is a perennial destination for tourists and sightseers. But for five days this past fall, the city also...Read More
Nov 20, 2015
UC San Diego team takes 4th place in regional programming competition
By Ioana Patringenaru San Diego, Calif., Nov. 20, 2015 — A team of UC San Diego computer science students tied with seven other campuses for first place in the 2015 ACM Southern California Regional Programming Contest on Nov. 14. The tie was finally resolved based on the time it took to solve...Read More
Nov 9, 2015
This New Method Identifies Up to Twice as Many Proteins and Peptides in Mass Spectrometry Data
By Ioana Patringenaru San Diego, Calif., Nov. 9, 2015 — An international team of researchers developed a method that identifies up to twice as many proteins and peptides in mass spectrometry data than conventional approaches. The method can be applied to a range of fields, including clinical...Read More
Oct 29, 2015
Mining Microbiomes: Chancellor Announces New Campus-wide Microbiome and Microbial Sciences Initiative
By Heather Buschman San Diego, Calif., Oct. 29, 2015 — You are only 10 percent human. Ninety percent of the cells that make up our bodies are actually bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes. And researchers are now finding that these unique microbial communities — called microbiomes — can...Read More
Oct 29, 2015
UC San Diego Launches Robotics Institute
By Daniel Kane San Diego, Calif., Oct. 29, 2015 — The Jacobs School of Engineering and Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, San Diego have launched the Contextual Robotics Institute to develop safe and useful robotics systems. These robotics systems will function in the...Read More
Oct 13, 2015
Computer Scientist Receives Prestigious Award for Operating Systems Research
San Diego, Calif., Oct. 13, 2015 — Computer scientist Yuanyuan “YY” Zhou from the University of California, San Diego, received the prestigious SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award during a ceremony Oct. 5. She was recognized “for innovative and creative contributions to detecting and recovering from defects...Read More
Oct 7, 2015
Computational Biologist Faculty-Affiliate Joins UC San Diego
UC San Diego recently announced the hiring of computational biologist Jill Mesirov as associate vice chancellor for computational health sciences, with a primary appointment in the School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center. But now the CSE department has appointed Mesirov as a faculty-affiliate...Read More
Sep 10, 2015
UC San Diego Department Establishes Endowed Chair to Honor Ronald Graham
The CSE department is honoring one of its own with a special distinction. The department has established the Ronald L. Graham Chair of Computer Science, named after the current CSE professor, distinguished mathematician, and Chief Scientist in the California Institute for Telecommunications and...Read More
Sep 1, 2015
UC San Diego Develops Online Software Development Courses for Coursera
Enrollment now open, classes to start Sept. 15 Three members of the Computer Science and Engineering faculty at the University of California, San Diego are the brains behind a new online course series to teach intermediate software development to learners around the world, Java Programming: Object...Read More