Aug 27, 2015
CSE Lecturer Organizes Conference on Future of Virtual Reality
Experts from academia and industry will share their insights into the future of virtual-reality technologies and content at the first annual Future of Virtual Reality Conference. The 2015 event takes place Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 8-9, in Atkinson Hall, and it is organized by Qualcomm Institute...Read More
Aug 25, 2015
Howard University Alumnus Awarded Sloan Ph.D. Fellowship in Computer Science at UC San Diego
Jeremy Blackstone is the first graduate student selected to receive a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minority Ph.D. Program to do a doctorate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He graduated magna cum laude in computer science from Howard...Read More
Aug 24, 2015
Faculty Startup Highlighted on Front Page of San Diego Business Journal
The growing popularity of the networking app Whova, particularly with conference and other event organizers, is focusing new attention on the small startup founded by CSE Prof. Yuanyuan Zhou and a few of her postdoctoral researchers. They made the front page of the San Diego Business Journal (...Read More
Aug 17, 2015
Bioinformatics Pioneers Launch First Online Bioinformatics Specialization on Coursera
Next week, learners around the world will have the opportunity to enroll in a series of courses designed for biologists eager to gain computational skills and for computer scientists who want to explore the frontier of bioinformatics. UC San Diego will launch its six-course Specialization in...Read More
Aug 17, 2015
Computer Science at UC San Diego #14 in Global Ranking
Computer science at UC San Diego is ranked #14 in the world, and #13 in the United States, according to the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). For the third year in a row, UC San Diego overall was also ranked the #14 best university in the world (#12 in the U.S.), while the...Read More
Aug 12, 2015
Fast and Vulnerable
A recent alumnus of CSE’s BS/MS program, Ian Foster (MS ’15), gave a high-profile talk this week at the Aug. 10-11 USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 2015) in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the much larger USENIX Security conference. Foster (who is now at Salesforce), CSE Prof. Stefan...Read More
Aug 12, 2015
Pinpointing a Security Vulnerability in How Computers Use Memory
In the Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT) where the paper on automotive hacking was presented (see stories above), another former member of CSE’s Security and Cryptography group had new research to present. CSE alumnus Stephen Checkoway (PhD ‘12) presented a paper with the eye-catching...Read More
Aug 12, 2015
Alumnus, Postdoc Offer Way to Make Embedded Systems More Secure
CSE postdoctoral researcher Karl Koscher (near left) was the first author on another paper presented at the Workshop on Offensive Technologies, jointly with Microsoft’s David Molnar and CSE alumnus Tadayoshi Kohno (PhD ’06) (far left), who was Koscher’s advisor at the University of Washington. They...Read More
Aug 6, 2015
CSE Students, Alumnus and Faculty Build RIFFA for FPGA
CSE students have built a Reuasble Integration Framework for FPGA Accelerators (RIFFA) for communicating data from a computer processor to a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The open-source technology, which can be used with any FPGA vendor on Windows or Linux, could lead to faster design...Read More
Aug 6, 2015
Five Years On, Car Hacking Research Still Triggering Alarms
Research dating back to 2010 in the lab of CSE Prof. Stefan Savage is still making headlines. In an article published by dozens of newspapers this week, the Associated Press reported that hackers are still able to hack automotive systems from a distance -- forcing Fiat Chrysler to become the first...Read More