![Shachar Lovett](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/ShacharLovett_HiRes.jpg?itok=kNOhXkoB)
Feb 23, 2015
CSE's Lovett Is Only UC Computer Scientist Honored with 2015 Sloan Research Fellowship
This year five faculty from UC San Diego, and 18 from the system-wide University of California are being honored by the Arthur P. Sloan Foundation with Sloan Research Fellowships for 2015. And only 16 computer scientists from the U.S. and Canada made the cut. Indeed, only one professor of...Read More
![Scott Klemmer](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/ScottKlemmer_HCI.jpg?itok=lNdfCLG_)
Feb 12, 2015
CSE Professor Partners with Instagram Co-Founder on Coursera
Coursera is pushing further into specialized sequences of courses that may be more attractive to people looking to boost their career prospects. The largest network offering massive open online courses, or MOOCs, Coursera is also partnering with companies to help shape the curriculum. Case in...Read More
![Labina Box](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/LabinaBox.jpg?itok=zLoDaCac)
Feb 11, 2015
Lab-in-a-Box Takes Aim at Doctors’ Computer Activity
They call it “the Lab-in-a-Box.” According to Nadir Weibel, a research scientist in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department at the University of California, San Diego, inside the box are assorted sensors and software designed to monitor a doctor’s office, particularly during...Read More
![How UC San Diego and CSE Fare in R&D Spending](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/ComputerScienceUCSD_700.jpg?itok=IB-MVZu9)
Feb 10, 2015
How UC San Diego and CSE Fare in R&D Spending
The latest authoritative statistics on university research and development (R&D) expenditures show that UC San Diego overall came in fifth place among all U.S. institutions of higher learning, with just over $1 billion in total R&D. Of that, $630,000 came from the federal government. UC San...Read More
![UW-UCSD Project Demonstrates Wireless Car Hacking for TV Newsmagazine](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/CarHackingComposite.jpg?itok=qHSNJuTP)
Feb 9, 2015
UW-UCSD Project Demonstrates Wireless Car Hacking for TV Newsmagazine
If you watched CBS's 60 Minutes program on Sunday, Febrary 8, you missed seeing the CSE logo. As part of a broader feature on information security research undertaken with support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the TV newsmagazine showcased the joint research on...Read More
![Avi Wigderson](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/Wigderson_200.jpg?itok=tZGJukI1)
Jan 23, 2015
Theory of Computation Expert to Give Inaugural Talk in New Lecture Series
On Friday, Jan. 30 at 11am, CSE Profs. Mohan Paturi and Russell Impagliazzo will host computer scientist and mathematician Avi Wigderson, one of the most prolific and influential researchers in the theory of computation. Wigderson was invited to speak in the department's colloquium and...Read More
![Victor Vianu](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/VictorVianu_225.jpg?itok=ywsEBxIm)
Jan 23, 2015
Déjà Vu: CSE's Vianu Passes the Test of Time... Again
For the second time in five years, CSE Prof. Victor Vianu is the recipient of the ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award. The annual award goes to the author or co-authors of a paper published in the proceedings of the Principles of Database Systems (PODS) ten years earlier. The award...Read More
![2015 CSE Day](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/CSEDay2015_StefanSavage.jpg?itok=lvrDR54I)
Jan 22, 2015
CSE Society Stages CSE Day 2015
The Computer Science and Engineering Society (CSES) and its members turned out in force on Thursday, Jan. 22, for the 2015 version of the society's annual CSE Day event. Organizers estimate that roughly 250 students consistently attend at least one of the day's events (depending on their class...Read More
![Moxie Center](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/MoxieCenter.jpg?itok=ck3pohcj)
Jan 14, 2015
Moxie Center Stages Open House and Pitchfest
CSE students with an idea for a new app or business venture may want to attend the Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship's Open House this Thursday, Jan. 15. The center is also inviting CSE and other UC San Diego students to participate in a PitchFest during the Open House, delivering a maximum...Read More
![I-Corps Applications](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/vLC_ICorps.jpg?itok=DtkzWCcL)
Jan 14, 2015
Jan. 15 Midnight Deadline for I-Corps Applications
The von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center is entering the second year of its I-Corps program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This winter 15 teams interested in starting their own company will have the opportunity to explore the commercialization potential of their ideas and receive up...Read More