Jun 29, 2015
CSE Professor Launches Online Courses in Interaction Design
Learners around the world, regardless of background, will have the opportunity online to learn how to design great user experiences and what it takes to design technologies that “bring people joy rather than frustration.” The courses were developed by University of California, San Diego Professor...Read More
Jun 18, 2015
Adjunct CSE Professor Divulges Google's Network Strategy
This week Google partially lifted the curtain of secrecy surrounding the homegrown network architecture it built over the past decade to handle the massive amount of Internet traffic through the search giant's servers. To divulge the details, Google selected an adjunct CSE professor to go public....Read More
Jun 15, 2015
CSE Student Turn Satellite Images into Policy Analysis
Recently, over 50 students – 17 of them from CSE – showed up for the day-long Big Pixel Hackathon organized by the Qualcomm Institute's Big Pixel Initiative (BPI) to showcase what can happen when you let students loose on the largest private collection of high-resolution satellite imagery on earth...Read More
Jun 13, 2015
$2 Million Gift from Alumnus Supports Computer Science Undergraduate Engineering Education at UC San Diego
A $2 million gift from a University of California, San Diego alumnus will provide critical support for undergraduate education in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The funds will help recruit, retain and support the professors and lecturers whose primary mission is to teach and...Read More
Jun 12, 2015
UC San Diego Students Spend Summer in Japan on PRIME Program
CSE undergraduate Michelle Wu is one of four UC San Diego students who will be spending the summer in Japan as part of the Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates (PRIME) program. PRIME's internship program promotes undergraduate research experiences on projects related to cyberinfrastructure....Read More
Jun 11, 2015
Paul Kube Honored as Computer Science Educator
Endowed Chair Created in Kube's Name at UC San Diego Jennifer Lu took four computer science courses with Lecturer Emeritus Paul Kube at the University of California, San Diego. She clearly remembers her first computer science class on campus. It came after a less-than-positive computer science...Read More
Jun 11, 2015
UC San Diego Launches edX Channel; Computer Graphics Course Announced
Campus Also Appoints Head of New Online Learning Office The recently-launched CSE-based Center for Visual Computing, or VisComp, at UC San Diego, confirmed that its first course on the edX learning platform will be taught by the center’s director, computer science professor Ravi Ramamoorthi. The...Read More
Jun 8, 2015
Inauguration of CSE Awards and End-of-Year BBQ
On Friday June 5, the CSE department awarded its inaugural Graduate and Undergraduate Awards. The award ceremony took place in the Calit2 Auditorium of Atkinson Hall. The awards came in four categories: Research, Teaching, Service and Contributions to Diversity. Nominations were sought earlier in...Read More
Jun 8, 2015
CSE Team Triumphs (Sort of) in Triton 5K
On Saturday, June 6, the Triton 5K race got underway under mostly blue skies, and the CSE team took home a decisive victory in one category. They weren't the fastest on the course, but CSE's Team Race Condition received the award for entering the biggest team in the contest. With 141 people...Read More
Jun 4, 2015
Ex-CSE Faculty, Alumni Unveil Computer Vision Success Story with UCSD Roots
Former CSE students and faculty are making headlines with a computer vision system that had it roots in a research project at UC San Diego. At that time, the Visipedia project was a joint venture between then-CSE Prof. Serge Belongie's lab and the Computer Vision Lab of Pietro Perona at Caltech....Read More