Sep 14, 2016
CS Senior and Team Win Top Prize at Target Hackathon
In late August, retail giant Target hosted a three-day Diversity Leadership Symposium and invited undergraduate students from around the country to help develop strategies to address diversity and inclusion in the retail industry. The activities included a 'case study hackathon'. By the end of the...Read More
Sep 14, 2016
Alumnus Uses Technology to Serve Movie-goers and Target Competitors
A CSE alumnus is making waves in Hollywood because he may be pointing the way to the future of movie-going. Ameesh Paleja (B.S. '01) finished his undergraduate degree in computer science at UC San Diego. He is now the co-founder and CEO of Atom Tickets, based in Santa Monica, Calif. According to...Read More
Sep 13, 2016
Engineers Receive $1 Million Grant to Improve the Way Robots Interact with People in U.S. Factories
Laurel Riek, a roboticist at the University of California San Diego, will lead a three-year, $1 million project funded by the National Science Foundation to help change the role of robots in factories and make it easier for machines to work alongside people. [Pictured at right is the envisioned...Read More
Sep 13, 2016
Computing Education Research Gets a Boost
In late August, the CRA Bulletin published an article arguing, "Why CS Departments Should Embrace Computing Education Research." The piece followed a July CRA Conference at Snowbird, which addresses issues such as how a CS department may benefit from hiring tenure-track faculty in computer...Read More
Sep 12, 2016
CSE, CNS Faculty Play Leadership Role at SIGCOMM
SIGCOMM 2016 – the week-long annual meeting of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication – wrapped up Aug. 26 in Florianopolis, Brazil – the first time the conference has taken place in Latin America. The event moves to Los Angeles for SIGCOMM 2017, and UC San Diego computer scientist...Read More
Aug 30, 2016
CSE, Contextual Robotics Institute and Banner Year for New Science Faculty
Over the weekend UC San Diego and, among others, its Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department, received lavish coverage for the new crop of faculty hired ahead of the new academic year. Writing in the San Diego Union-Tribune, science editor Gary Robbins noted that from "San Diego to San...Read More
Aug 18, 2016
CSE Closes Out Successful Hiring Season for 2016-2017
With a final flurry of announcements, CSE Chair Dean Tullsen marked the end of the current faculty hiring season. He did so in confirming that the last two outstanding offers were accepted. That brings CSE's total new appointments to seven faculty members, as well as two announced in 2015 who are...Read More
Aug 16, 2016
Barngrover, Hoover Hope to Take Robotics Sequence to Next Level
CSE lecturers Christopher Barngrover (near right) and Greg Hoover are looking for more M.S. students to take their CSE 291 three-course sequence, which kicks off this fall with Barngrover's Introduction to Robotics Software course. (It's a graduate-level course, but Barngrover says they have...Read More
Aug 16, 2016
Computer Science at UC San Diego Ranks #14 Worldwide
In its 2016 university rankings, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for the fourth year in a row ranked UC San Diego the #14 university in the world. At the same time, ARWU used its methology to analyze and rank many of the most important disciplines, including computer science, and...Read More
Aug 12, 2016
Researchers Devise Proactive Method for Detecting Hardware Trojans at the Gate-Level
Modern computer chips are made up of hundreds of millions – often billions – of transistors. Such complexity enables the smartphone in your back pocket to perform all manner of powerful computations, but it also provides lots of places for tiny malicious circuits, known as hardware Trojans, to hide...Read More