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Oct 22, 2021
Graduate Women in Computing Wins International Award to Boost Diversity and Engagement in CS
By Katie E. Ismael The Graduate Women in Computing organization (GradWIC) at UC San Diego is one of seven universities in the world to be selected for this year’s Xilinx Women in Technology University Grant Program. The program seeks to increase the representation, participation, and...Read More
Oct 20, 2021
UC adopts recommendations for the responsible use of artificial intelligence
The University of California has adopted a set of recommendations to guide the safe and responsible deployment of artificial intelligence in UC operations and three researchers at UC San Diego were involved with the effort. UC becomes one of the first universities in the nation to establish...Read More
Oct 19, 2021
Computer Scientist’s Work Passes the Test of Time, Again
UC San Diego computer science professor William Griswold has received his second test of time award for groundbreaking work. This time, he was honored by the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets (AITO) for his 2001 paper on the AspectJ programming language, an aspect-oriented...Read More
Oct 13, 2021
Computer Scientists Part of NSF Grant to Make Browsers Safer
By Ioana Patringenaru Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego are part of a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to make web browsers safer. At UC San Diego, the effort will be headed by Deian Stefan, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer...Read More
Oct 13, 2021
CSE Researchers Show Low-performing CS Students Face Wide Array of Struggles
By Katherine Connor Computer science researchers at UC San Diego conducted a broad student experience survey to learn which factors most impact student success in early computing courses, a field that has historically seen high failure rates and poor student retention. They found that lower...Read More
Sep 22, 2021
CSE and UW Computer Scientists Honored for Their Work Discovering That Cars are Vulnerable to Hacking
Many people think of cars as a series of mechanical parts that — hopefully — work together to take us places, but that's not the whole story. Inside most modern cars is a network of computers, called "electronic control units," that control all the systems and communicate with each...Read More
Sep 22, 2021
Jingbo Shang: Helping Machines and Students Outperform
By Josh Baxt When new UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Assistant Professor Jingbo Shang was in fifth grade, he entered a computer programming competition in his hometown, his first foray into computer science. He was using Pascal, a computer language co-developed in the...Read More
Sep 16, 2021
Bioinformatics Undergrad Program Ranked First in the Nation
By Ioana Patringenaru Three undergraduate academic programs at the Jacobs School of Engineering were ranked in the top 10 programs for undergraduates in rankings released Sept. 13, 2021 by U.S. News and World Report. The biocomputing, bioinformatics and biotechnology program, a multidisciplinary...Read More
Sep 14, 2021
$5 Million NSF Grant Supports Data-Friendly Research Platform
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to prototype the National Research Platform (NRP), an actual information superhighway. Several members of the UC San Diego Computer Science and...Read More
Sep 9, 2021
The Beauty of OpenRooms
Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego have released a new framework called OpenRooms. Freely available to everyone, this new dataset and tools will help users manipulate objects, materials, lighting and other properties in indoor 3D scenes to advance augmented reality and...Read More