Jun 4, 2015
CSE-Based Startup Shares in $20,000 Zahn Prizes for 2015
Computer science major John Chou (at left) is slated to graduate next month, and he is one of the seven students on hand to accept 2015 Zahnn Prizes. The awards are organized by the Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship and held in The Basement facility for student startups, with competing...Read More
Jun 3, 2015
Engineering Honor Society Honors CSE Faculty
Among all the honors being handed out at this time of year, the best teaching awards are important indicators of how students perceive faculty members. This year, the UCSD chapter of the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi (TBP) couldn't decide on a single professor for the honor, so TBP decided...Read More
Jun 3, 2015
CSE Professor Collaborates with Couchbase on Next-Generation Query Language for Big Data
In a major step toward broader adoption of document-oriented data and the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data format, University of California, San Diego computer science and engineering professor Yannis Papakonstantinou and Couchbase Inc., today announced their collaboration on a next-...Read More
Jun 2, 2015
Alumnus Hangs a Hiring Sign at Bay Area Company
CSE alumnus Tim Armandpour (BS '99) is now VP of Engineering at the Bay Area-based PagerDuty, according to an announcement from the company this week. The announcement said that Armandpour will be responsible for driving product development and scaling the engineering team of the company. The...Read More
Jun 1, 2015
UC San Diego Center for Networked Systems Launches LGBT Scholarship
To encourage a more diverse community in computer science education and research, the Center for Networked Systems (CNS) at the University of California, San Diego is establishing the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship in partnership with private donors. The scholarship will be awarded annually to an...Read More
May 29, 2015
Sustaining Up-to-Date CS Curriculum in Secondary Schools
CSE Associate Teaching Professor Beth Simon (at right) is a co-principal investigator on a new $1 million project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help three of the San Diego region's school districts develop model "villages" for introducing and sustaining up-to-date computer...Read More
May 28, 2015
CSE Inaugurates Graduate and Undergraduate Awards
CSE Undergraduate and Graduate Awards at End-of-Year BBQ Friday, June 5, 2015 11:30am - 3:00pm Calit2 Auditorium (Atkinson Hall) and CSE Courtyard The end of the academic year is upon us. Come celebrate with us at the CSE end-of-year BBQ on June 5. We will begin in the Calit2 Auditorium in...Read More
May 28, 2015
Graduate Town Hall Followed by Student-Run BBQ Social Hour
Graduate Town Hall, followed by Student-Run BBQ Social Hour Friday, May 29, 2015 2:00pm - 5:00pm CSE 1202 and CSE Courtyard Come join us for our regular graduate student town hall in CSE 1202. The town hall will start this Friday, May 29, with an information session from 2:00pm to 2:30pm, about...Read More
May 28, 2015
Gary Gillespie Honored for Excellence and Mentoring
He's not of Greek extraction, nor is he particularly involved with sororities or fraternities on the UC San Diego campus. But CSE lecturer Gary Gillespie (pictured below) was awarded the Outstanding Professor Award given out by the Panhellenic Association at UC San Diego. He accepted his award at...Read More
May 26, 2015
Alumnus Elevated to CEO at Games Company
A former member of the CSE Alumni Board, Matt Shea (BS, Computer Science '97) has now become Chief Executive Officer at the games company, WildTangent, where he has worked for 13 years. Two years ago the Puget Sound Business Journal named Shea to its list of "40 Under 40" leading executives in the...Read More