May 3, 2017
Making Parsers More Accessible
Ph.D. candidate Alan Leung (M.S. '13) says he likes to create tools that "make it easier to build complex systems reliably." These include a tool for automating the construction of parsers -- programs that extract structure from strings -- for context-free languages. Now, Leung is poised for the...Read More
May 3, 2017
Database Lab Faculty and Students at ICDE 2017
The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) took place this year in San Diego, with UC San Diego organizing the event. The three-day meeting took place in late April at the Hilton San Diego Resort and Spa in Mission Bay. ICDE speakers explored research issues in designing,...Read More
May 2, 2017
Smarr, Christensen Among Speakers on Impact of Innovation at Xconomy Forum
CSE professor and Calit2 director Larry Smarr laid out his "vision for a looming transformation in healthcare" at the recent Xconomy San Diego Forum on the Human Impact of Innovation, according to a May 2 report on the Xconomy.com news site. Smarr predicted that a "planetary" computer would be able...Read More
Apr 28, 2017
Jacobs School, CSE Honor Recently Appointed Endowed Chair Holders
CSE and the Jacobs School of Engineering are celebrating two CSE professors who were awarded endowed chairs in the past year. The appointments of professors Tajana Rosing and Stefan Savage, both of whom are affiliated with the Center for Networked Systems (CNS), were previously announced, but now...Read More
Apr 27, 2017
CSE, Qualcomm Institute Offer VR App Development Professional Courses Online
UC San Diego develops first MOOC series on virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is one of the hottest emerging technologies in the entertainment industry today. Millions of VR devices have been sold in the U.S. alone, but most software developers have no formal training on the technology. Now VR...Read More
Apr 26, 2017
Rosing Students Take CSE Best Poster Award at Research Expo 2017
A truly interdisciplinary team finished the 2017 Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo with the Best Poster award in the Computer Science and Engineering category. The departmental prize went to a team of students from CSE and ECE advised by CSE computer engineering professor Tajana Rosing....Read More
Apr 20, 2017
Hacking into a Lost World
Somewhere in the at-risk ruins of Khirbat en-Nahas in the Faynan region of southern Jordan lie untold stories of copper mining and smelting industries from the time of David and Solomon and the Edomite kings. Stories that, until now, could only be told in words, maps and photographs. Thanks to UC...Read More
Apr 19, 2017
Detecting Network Bugs in 99% of Mobile Apps
CSE Ph.D. candidate Xinxin Jin is getting ready to defend her dissertation in early May in front of a committee chaired by her advisor, CSE Prof. Yuanyuan Zhou. Also sitting on the committee will be: CSE professors Bill Griswold, Alex Snoeren and Geoffrey Voelker, as well as ECE professor and...Read More
Apr 18, 2017
UC San Diego Computer Science Degree #3 for 20-Year Return on Investment
What's a computer science undergraduate education worth to computer science graduates of UC San Diego? In the 20 years after graduation, UC San Diego alumni are averaging a return on their investment of more than a million dollars. 2017 PayScale report ranks CSE #3 for return on...Read More
Apr 18, 2017
Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps
A partnership between computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and Google has allowed the search giant to reduce by 70 percent fraudulent business listings in Google Maps. The researchers worked together to analyze more than 100,000 fraudulent listings to determine how scammers...Read More