Dec 6, 2016
CSE Alumna Proves It Takes Smarts to Write Computer Science Books 'For Dummies'
University of California San Diego alumna Sarah Guthals (BS ’10, MS ’12, Ph.D. ’14) completed all of her degrees in Computer Science, and as a student, she co-founded the educational computer-science startup ThoughtSTEM, and developed education games to help students learn the basics of programming...Read More
Dec 6, 2016
CSE Student Featured in #ILookLikeAnEngineer Jacobs School Series
In case you've missed the engaging series of interviews involving engineering and computer science students under the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer, one of the latest undergraduates highlighted in the series is Akanksha Kevalramani (pictured). The sophomore (Class of '18) majoring in Computer...Read More
Dec 5, 2016
CSE to Host Free Coding Faire for Kids
Alumni Startup Organizes Event for Computer Science Education Week Volunteer tutors work with elementary student during the 2014 Coding Faire organized by ThoughtSTEM.A heads-up for alumni, staff and faculty of the University of California San Diego and other San Diegans with young kids: the...Read More
Nov 30, 2016
UC San Diego Computer Scientist Elevated to IEEE Fellow
Not all computer scientists are likely to qualify to become a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for humanity. Now, among three University of California San Diego faculty named IEEE Fellows in...Read More
Nov 29, 2016
CSE Professor Among Five New AAAS Fellows from UC San Diego
CSE Professor Larry Smarr is one of five faculty from the University of California San Diego awarded the distinction of fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Smarr, who is also director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology...Read More
Nov 29, 2016
Ph.D. Candidate Mounts Successful Dissertation Defense
On November 29, Ph.D. candidate Olivia Simpson faced her advisor and other members of her dissertation committee for the final defense of her doctorate in Computer Science. She debriefed the committee and took questions on the subject of her dissertation: "Local and Distributed Computation for...Read More
Nov 15, 2016
The Programmer, the Code and the Basement
In a rare article about the Computer Science and Engineering basement 'dungeon' full of computer-science labs, the UCSD Guardian newspaper on Nov. 13 ran a feature story about the experience of students who "slave away on CSE homework, a life-draining task." The scary language, however, segues into...Read More
Nov 14, 2016
SD Hacks Leaders Look Back at the Two-Year-Old Hackathon
The UC San Diego Office of Innovation and Commercialization is pushing hard to get more students involved in entrepreneurial efforts on campus, including via hackathons. To that end, the office's Lynsey Fitzpatrick interviewed two CSE students who developed the university's first major hackathon...Read More
Nov 14, 2016
CNS Scholarship Winner Gets First-Hand Insight into CS Pioneer Alan Turing
Valeria Gonzalez is the first recipient of the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship launched by UC San Diego's Center for Networked Systems (CNS), so she was excited when she learned that the nephew and biographer of the famous mathematician and pioneer in the fields of computer science and artificial...Read More
Nov 10, 2016
Learning Human Preferences and Perceptions From Data
A special seminar in Artificial Intelligence featured a talk Nov. 9 by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Robert Nowak. He focused on "Learning Human Preferences and Perceptions from Data." CSE Prof. Kamalika Chaudhuri hosted the event. According to Nowak (pictured at right), modeling...Read More