Apr 12, 2016
Postdoctoral Researcher to Receive UC San Diego Sustainability Award
On Tuesday, April 26, the UC San Diego Sustainability Office will host its annual Sustainability Awards ceremony (in the Price Center's The Loft beginning at 3:30pm). In this year's Individual category, CSE postdoctoral researcher and alumnus Baris Aksanli (M.S., Ph.D. '12, '15) won the top award...Read More
Apr 11, 2016
CSE Team Takes Top Honors in Triton 5K to Benefit Scholarships
Despite gray skies and some drizzle, members of CSE's Team Race Condition turned out in force at this year's Triton 5K race, which coincided with Triton Day on campus, when students accepted to UC San Diego are invited to the campus with their families to learn more about the university as they...Read More
Apr 6, 2016
CSE Presence at ASPLOS 2016 Conference at Georgia Tech
The Computer Science and Engineering department was well represented at ASPLOS 2016, the 21st ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. It took place April 2-6 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. CSE Prof. Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou (at right) chaired...Read More
Apr 1, 2016
SDSC Summer Institute Invites Applications: HPC for the Long Tail of Science
CSE faculty, postdocs and students are invited to enroll in the San Diego Supercomputer Center's Summer Institute, which will run from August 1-5 at SDSC on the UC San Diego campus. The institute will provide a week of education and training in High Performance and Data Intensive Computing. This...Read More
Mar 30, 2016
CSE Professor Honored for Innovation in Network Security Research
CSE Prof. Stefan Savage is the recipient of the 2015 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Infosys Foundation cited Savage for innovative research in network security, privacy and reliability that has taught cybersecurity...Read More
Mar 29, 2016
UC San Diego Ranks #5 on Forbes List of Best Value Colleges
Forbes revamped its methodology for the magazine's Best Value Colleges of 2016, and UC San Diego came in at #5 for all public and private schools on the list, a far cry from its ranking at #123 by Forbes in 2015, when a more simplistic methodology was used to determine best value. UC San Diego is...Read More
Mar 28, 2016
In Absence of New Specialty Rankings, Computer Science at UC San Diego Is #15 Nationally, #9 Globally
The 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools highly ranks UC San Diego's professional schools and programs in engineering and medicine. The Jacobs School of Engineering was ranked #17 out of 215 engineering schools, and the School of Medicine came in at #18 in the research...Read More
Mar 17, 2016
New Apple Watch App Provides Best Time to Cross International Borders
A team of three CSE undergraduates helped develop an app for the Apple Watch that provides users with wait times to enter the United States from its northern and southern borders at 70 different points of entry. The app is believed to be the first specifically for the Apple Watch developed by UC...Read More
Mar 17, 2016
Pacific Research Platform Awarded CENIC Innovations in Networking Award
Less than five months since the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided a $5 million, five-year grant to develop and deploy the Pacific Research Platform (PRP), the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives (CENIC) has selected the PRP for one of its top awards. Next week at CENIC 2016 on...Read More
Mar 11, 2016
Teaching Professors Win Second SIGCSE Best Paper in Four Years
Last week, two CSE teaching professors, Leo Porter and Beth Simon, were awarded the Best Paper Award at Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2016. Their winning paper, "A Multi-institutional Study of Peer Instruction in Introductory Computing"*, was selected from among 105...Read More