![Scott Klemmer](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/ScottKlemmer.jpg?itok=cvRpoTZO)
May 21, 2015
Discussion Groups for the Online Classroom (and Off)
CSE and Cogntive Science professor Scott Klemmer (right) is one of the brains behind a new tool called Talkabout, developed at UC San Diego and Stanford and already deployed as part of Klemmer's massive open online course (MOOC) on human-computer interaction. Talkabout is a virtual discussion...Read More
![Zachary Liption](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/ZacharyLipton.jpg?itok=QJ4zfv-b)
May 19, 2015
A Graduate Student's Perspective on Data Scientists
As CSE seeks campus approval for a new major in Data Science and Engineering, Ph.D. student Zachary Chase Lipton asks the question: "Will the real data scientists please stand up?" That's the title of his May 19 column in KDnuggets, which covers data mining, analytics, big data and data scence. In...Read More
![Students Put Finishing Touches to 3D, Multiplayer Networked Games](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/CSE125_Team2_ScreenshotWeek6_bananas.jpg?itok=ks8qTe3V)
May 15, 2015
Students Put Finishing Touches to 3D, Multiplayer Networked Games
Mark June 5th on your calendar. That's when five teams of students taking the CSE 125 capstone course on software system design and implementation -- better known as "the videogame course" -- will present their final projects and give audience members an opportunity to play the 3D, networked and...Read More
![Jason Oberg](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/JasonOberg.png?itok=6kpQTVAM)
May 15, 2015
CSE Computer Security Startup Starts Selling Toolkit
A startup out of the CSE department is flexing its muscles. This week, Tortuga Logic's co-founder and CEO, CSE alumnus Jason Oberg (PhD '13) announced immediate availability of the company's toolkit to transform the way hardware designers and system architects test the security of hardware designs...Read More
![ThinkTank: Future of Digital Health](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/ThinkTank.png?itok=eMo8ACwg)
May 14, 2015
Gordon Center Stages Sixth Annual Think Tank
This Friday and Saturday, the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center is hosting another of its "Think Tank" symposium series, this one focused on digital health. Think Tank: The Future of Digital Health May 15-16, 2015 Friday 8am-5pm; Saturday 8am-2pm Qualcomm Conference Center Jacobs...Read More
![Sarah Meiklehjohn](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/sarah_meiklejohn.jpg?itok=UMG9lvi_)
May 14, 2015
2015 Chancellor's Dissertation Medal Honors CSE Alumna
CSE alumna Sarah Meiklejohn received her Ph.D. in computer science in 2014, and soon after accepted a faculty position at University College London in the UK, where she is a lecturer and assistant professor in the computer science as well as security-and-crime departments. For a researcher with...Read More
![Larry Smarr](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/LarrySmarr_Vroom.jpg?itok=B-O5aaR2)
May 12, 2015
CSE's Smarr Called 'Unlikely Hero' of Global Movement
Calit2 Director and CSE Prof. Larry Smarr made the front page of The Washington Post. The May 9 article, “The Human Upgrade: The Revolution Will Be Digitized” by technology writer Ariana Cha, explores the movement to quantify consumers’ health and lifestyles, spearheaded by a flood of wearable...Read More
![SPIS](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/SPIS_2014_Closing.jpg?itok=p4wQutbS)
May 12, 2015
CSE Gives Transfer Students a Head Start
This summer CSE is one of several departments that will launch a new program for incoming transfer students arriving in Fall 2015. The Summer Academy will run from August 2 through September 5, and only transfer students majoring in computer science and engineering, biological sciences, electrical...Read More
![Register to Participate in Big Pixel Hackathon](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/BigPixel_Interchange_400.jpg?itok=FrFgk8Ao)
May 12, 2015
Register to Participate in Big Pixel Hackathon
Imagine being able to count every car in every city, monitor illegal elephant poaching from your couch, or measure the total area of solar panels on the planet. Geospatial big data is an emerging industry, with nearly a billion dollars in cash flowing into satellite imagery and analytics startups...Read More
![Rob Knight](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/news/RobKnight.jpg?itok=Ner_ivtV)
May 8, 2015
Knight, Smarr Raise Profile of Microbiome Research
Two computer scientists at UC San Diego are raising the profile of research on the human microbiome -- the 100 trillion human cells in and on each human body, of which only 10 trillion are human. The correct balance of microbes can keep pathogens in check and regulate the immune system, and...Read More