Aug 21, 2017
Computer Scientists Develop Automated Tools to Uncover Advertising by Human Traffickers
Organizers of the 23rd ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) just wrapped up their five-day annual conference, which ended on August 17 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. One of the highest-profile presentations was a paper with co-authors from UC Berkeley, UC San...Read More
Aug 18, 2017
$100,000 Gift from Cognex Supports Research at Intersection of Deep Learning and 3D Image Reconstruction
The University of California San Diego has received a $100,000 gift from Cognex Corporation, a leader in machine vision. The gift will allow teams of professors and graduate students at the Jacobs School of Engineering to explore research at the intersection of deep learning and 3-D image...Read More
Aug 18, 2017
CSE Ph.D. and Faculty Presence at USENIX Security Symposium 2017
The 26th USENIX Security Symposium took place Aug. 16-18 in Vancouver, Canada, and security researchers in the CSE department were well represented on the conference program (in addition to the opening announcement of the USENIX Security Test of Time Award, which went to CSE's Geoffrey Voelker and...Read More
Aug 18, 2017
CSE Lecturer Honored for Research Leadership in Scientific and Technical Computing
The ACM Special Interest Group on High-Performance Computing (SIGHPC) gives an award every other year to single out a mid-career woman in the computing field. The ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award will be presented this November at SC17 to UC San Diego computer scientist...Read More
Aug 16, 2017
Computer Security Experts Honored for Research that Stands the Test of Time
Denial of service attacks (DoS) have crippled even the likes of Google and Amazon in recent years, topping at a reported 1.1 terabits per second in 2016. But they were a relatively unexplored phenomenon in the year 2000, when three computer scientists from the University of California San Diego set...Read More
Aug 14, 2017
Design Lab Faculty to Launch NSF-Funded Graduate Education Project
On September 1, the Design Lab at UC San Diego will launch a new project to help teach incoming graduate students how to program in the era of big data. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program, and the Design Lab project is...Read More
Aug 13, 2017
Extending State-of-Art Techniques for Concurrency Verification to Distributed Setting
Professor Ilya Sergey, a lecturer in computer science at University College London in the UK was on campus Friday, August 11, to give a talk in the CSE department. Sergey is a member of the UCL Computer Science Department's Programming Principles, Logic and Verification group. The talk on "...Read More
Aug 13, 2017
CSE-Trained Expert on Program Verification Featured in Communications of the ACM
CSE alumnus Zachary Tatlock (Ph.D. '14) is now a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. In an article about "hacker-proof coding" in the August issue of Communications of the ACM, the publication notes that as Tatlock was finishing up his dissertation at UC San Diego, the...Read More
Aug 11, 2017
New Graduate Course in Automated Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence
CSE professor Sicun GaoThis fall CSE professor Sicun Gao -- who joined the faculty July 1 from a postdoctoral position in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) -- is launching a new CSE 291 course on "Automated Reasoning in AI." "It will be an introduction to reasoning-...Read More
Aug 10, 2017
Virtual Reality in the Classroom
Mark your calendars. That's when CSE associate adjunct professor Jurgen Schulze, who teaches both computer graphics and virtual reality in the department, will be on a panel of experts at a special community event in connection with the Sally Ride Science STEAM Series. The event is organized by UC...Read More