Jun 13, 2015
$2 Million Gift from Alumnus Supports Computer Science Undergraduate Engineering Education at UC San Diego
A $2 million gift from a University of California, San Diego alumnus will provide critical support for undergraduate education in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The funds will help recruit, retain and support the professors and lecturers whose primary mission is to teach and...Read More
Jun 12, 2015
UC San Diego Students Spend Summer in Japan on PRIME Program
CSE undergraduate Michelle Wu is one of four UC San Diego students who will be spending the summer in Japan as part of the Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduates (PRIME) program. PRIME's internship program promotes undergraduate research experiences on projects related to cyberinfrastructure....Read More
Jun 11, 2015
Paul Kube Honored as Computer Science Educator
Endowed Chair Created in Kube's Name at UC San Diego Jennifer Lu took four computer science courses with Lecturer Emeritus Paul Kube at the University of California, San Diego. She clearly remembers her first computer science class on campus. It came after a less-than-positive computer science...Read More
Jun 11, 2015
UC San Diego Launches edX Channel; Computer Graphics Course Announced
Campus Also Appoints Head of New Online Learning Office The recently-launched CSE-based Center for Visual Computing, or VisComp, at UC San Diego, confirmed that its first course on the edX learning platform will be taught by the center’s director, computer science professor Ravi Ramamoorthi. The...Read More
Jun 8, 2015
Inauguration of CSE Awards and End-of-Year BBQ
On Friday June 5, the CSE department awarded its inaugural Graduate and Undergraduate Awards. The award ceremony took place in the Calit2 Auditorium of Atkinson Hall. The awards came in four categories: Research, Teaching, Service and Contributions to Diversity. Nominations were sought earlier in...Read More
Jun 8, 2015
CSE Team Triumphs (Sort of) in Triton 5K
On Saturday, June 6, the Triton 5K race got underway under mostly blue skies, and the CSE team took home a decisive victory in one category. They weren't the fastest on the course, but CSE's Team Race Condition received the award for entering the biggest team in the contest. With 141 people...Read More
Jun 4, 2015
Ex-CSE Faculty, Alumni Unveil Computer Vision Success Story with UCSD Roots
Former CSE students and faculty are making headlines with a computer vision system that had it roots in a research project at UC San Diego. At that time, the Visipedia project was a joint venture between then-CSE Prof. Serge Belongie's lab and the Computer Vision Lab of Pietro Perona at Caltech....Read More
Jun 4, 2015
CSE-Based Startup Shares in $20,000 Zahn Prizes for 2015
Computer science major John Chou (at left) is slated to graduate next month, and he is one of the seven students on hand to accept 2015 Zahnn Prizes. The awards are organized by the Moxie Center for Student Entrepreneurship and held in The Basement facility for student startups, with competing...Read More
Jun 3, 2015
Engineering Honor Society Honors CSE Faculty
Among all the honors being handed out at this time of year, the best teaching awards are important indicators of how students perceive faculty members. This year, the UCSD chapter of the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi (TBP) couldn't decide on a single professor for the honor, so TBP decided...Read More
Jun 3, 2015
CSE Professor Collaborates with Couchbase on Next-Generation Query Language for Big Data
In a major step toward broader adoption of document-oriented data and the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data format, University of California, San Diego computer science and engineering professor Yannis Papakonstantinou and Couchbase Inc., today announced their collaboration on a next-...Read More