Mar 28, 2016
In Absence of New Specialty Rankings, Computer Science at UC San Diego Is #15 Nationally, #9 Globally
The 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools highly ranks UC San Diego's professional schools and programs in engineering and medicine. The Jacobs School of Engineering was ranked #17 out of 215 engineering schools, and the School of Medicine came in at #18 in the research...Read More
Mar 17, 2016
New Apple Watch App Provides Best Time to Cross International Borders
A team of three CSE undergraduates helped develop an app for the Apple Watch that provides users with wait times to enter the United States from its northern and southern borders at 70 different points of entry. The app is believed to be the first specifically for the Apple Watch developed by UC...Read More
Mar 17, 2016
Pacific Research Platform Awarded CENIC Innovations in Networking Award
Less than five months since the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided a $5 million, five-year grant to develop and deploy the Pacific Research Platform (PRP), the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives (CENIC) has selected the PRP for one of its top awards. Next week at CENIC 2016 on...Read More
Mar 11, 2016
Teaching Professors Win Second SIGCSE Best Paper in Four Years
Last week, two CSE teaching professors, Leo Porter and Beth Simon, were awarded the Best Paper Award at Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2016. Their winning paper, "A Multi-institutional Study of Peer Instruction in Introductory Computing"*, was selected from among 105...Read More
Mar 10, 2016
International Conference Invites CSE Professor to Deliver High-Profile Keynote
With the proliferation of big data and machine learning algorithms to analyze all of that data, more and more sensitive information about individuals is raising the risk of invading those individuals' privacy. That's the topic -- "Challenges in Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis" -- that CSE Prof....Read More
Mar 9, 2016
Closing the Gender Gap in Computer Science Education
International Women’s Day was March 8 and two CSE faculty members were invited to weigh in with their perspectives on how to close the gender gap in technology. The "inspiring" Associate Teaching Professor Christine Alvarado (below at right) and Assistant Teaching Professor Mia Minnes were featured...Read More
Mar 9, 2016
Gordon Center Invites Applications for 2016-2017 Academic Year
Undergraduate and graduate students in CSE and other Jacobs School of Engineering departments have until Monday, April 4, 2016, to apply for a Gordon Scholarship for the next school year. On March 11 the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center held an information session ahead of the application...Read More
Mar 7, 2016
CSE Sophomore and Team Finish #3 in HealthHack
While students from Bioengineering dominated the top two teams at the second annual HealthHack 2016 organized by the UC San Diego chapter of Engineering World Health, a Computer Science and Engineering sophomore and his team mates took the third spot. Well over 100 students, mostly undergraduates,...Read More
Mar 6, 2016
What Citizen Science and Computer Science Can Do for Medical Research
Citizen-science initiatives in which members of the public contribute to a particular study have become a very valuable asset to researchers. UC San Diego professor Rob Knight (right), who has dual appointments in Pediatrics as well as Computer Science and Engineering, co-founded the American...Read More
Mar 2, 2016
UC Invitation for Faculty to Develop Fully Online Courses
The University of California is inviting faculty from all UC campuses to submit proposals for developing undergraduate online courses that run fully on UC Online. The university's Innovative Learning Technology Initiative (ILTI) offers financial support to defray the costs of creating fully online...Read More