Jun 10, 2017
Helping Kids Explore Computer Science and STEM Technologies
Here's another deadline: June 12. That's the cutoff date to apply for a scholarship for young women, ages between 7 and 17, to to participate free of charge in one of the Summer Coding Camps for Kids at UC San Diego, organized by ThoughtSTEM. The company was launched by CSE alumni Stephen Foster (...Read More
Jun 9, 2017
CSE Students, Faculty to Be Honored at Jacobs School Ring Ceremony
Student of the Year Ryan Hill (B.S. '17)Jacobs School of Engineering Dean Albert P. Pisano will host the annual Ring Ceremony and hand out the school's 2017 Annual Awards to student and faculty winners in multiple categories on Saturday, June 17 from 8-10pm on Warren Mall. CSE personnel are among...Read More
Jun 9, 2017
Ph.D. Candidate Defends Thesis on Coordinating Dynamics in Human-Robot Teams
Tariq Iqbal with robotIt's a long way from his native Bangladesh to La Jolla, California, where Ph.D. candidate Tariq Iqbal mounted the final defense of his dissertation in the field of robotics on June 8. Iqbal followed his advisor, professor Laurel Riek, from the University of Notre Dame to UC...Read More
Jun 6, 2017
Arduino Workshops Open to Campus Community
Attention staff, faculty and students in the Computer Science and Engineering department: all are welcome to join one or two Arduino two-hour workshops being held on campus this week. Date: Thursday, June 8, 2017Time: 2pm - 8pmLocation: Qualcomm Conference Center, Jacobs Hall, UC San Diego...Read More
Jun 5, 2017
CSE Students and Professors Stage Major Presence at SIGMOD 2017
CSE had a major presence at this year's ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), the premier venue for research in data management. The 2017 meeting took place in mid-May in Chicago jointly with PODS, the premier international conference on the theoretical aspects of database...Read More
Jun 4, 2017
CSE Alumnus Organizes First ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things
CSE alumnus Bharathan Balaji (Ph.D. '16) is now a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA, and he is trying to get the word out about a brand-new conference: the 1st ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings 2017). It's slated for November 5 at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in...Read More
Jun 2, 2017
Seniors Make Final Tweaks to CSE 125 Multiplayer Videogames
Team A42JS's game is a 3rd-person, cooperative, horror-themed survival gameIt's not often that the final project presentations of an undergraduate computer-science course attracts a standing-room-only audience of students and visitors from across campus. But that's par for the course when...Read More
Jun 1, 2017
CSE Professor Recognized Not Once, Not Twice, but Three Times in Year-End Honors
CSE Associate Teaching Professor Christine Alvarado is no stranger to winning awards, particularly for her teaching. But what's unusual is that starting June 3, she will be accepting not just one or two such awards, but three. The honors will come from the Tau Beta Pi honors engineering society,...Read More
May 30, 2017
Soft Robotics Glove to Interact with Virtual Reality Environments
Engineers at UC San Diego are using soft robotics technology to make light, flexible gloves that allow users to feel tactile feedback when they interact with virtual reality environments. The researchers used the gloves to realistically simulate the tactile feeling of playing a virtual piano...Read More
May 25, 2017
A Race to Build the Smartest Rover
Computer Science alumnus Alex Smith (B.S. '16) may have graduated, but he's still spending most of his time on campus as part of the effort he co-founded, Yonder Dynamics, in fall 2015 with History major Kirk Hutchison. Today more than 40 students from multiple departments are spending all of their...Read More