Dec 20, 2021
The Newest Deep Minds of UC San Diego’s CSE
By Katie E. Ismael UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE) is proud to introduce the newest class of DeepMind Fellows. These fellowships were made possible by a generous gift from DeepMind, a London-based leader in artificial intelligence (AI) research and how it’s...Read More
Dec 13, 2021
Imani Munyaka: Improving the Human Experience
By Kimberley Clementi We are all vulnerable to cybersecurity threats. It’s endemic to our digital era. Still, an individual’s race, gender or age could increase their susceptibility – especially in specific settings. So might a physical disability, cognitive impairment or even one’s...Read More
Dec 10, 2021
Shape-Shifting Accelerator Chips Offer Greener Way to Meet AI Demand
By Josh Baxt Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and MIT will be developing a new generation of multi-tenant, fast, efficient and environmentally friendly accelerator chips to help meet exploding demand for artificial intelligence thanks to a new grant from the...Read More
Dec 7, 2021
Who's Got Your Mail? Google and Microsoft, Mostly
By Ioana Patringenaru Who really sends, receives and, most importantly perhaps, stores your business’ email? Most likely Google and Microsoft, unless you live in China or Russia. And the market share for these two companies keeps growing. That’s the conclusion reached by a group of computer...Read More
Dec 6, 2021
This Framework Will Improve the Security of all Firefox Users
Researchers from the University of California San Diego, the University of Texas at Austin, and Mozilla have designed a new framework, called RLBox, to make the Firefox browser more secure. Mozilla has started deploying RLBox on all Firefox platforms this week. RLBox increases browser security by...Read More
Dec 3, 2021
The Core of Powerful, Power-Efficient Processors
By Katie E. Ismael The high-performance yet low-power processors running billions of today’s laptops and mobile devices come thanks to research by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and HP Labs. Their work, which began nearly two decades ago, has influenced the...Read More
Dec 1, 2021
How the Pandemic Lockdown Impacted UC San Diego Undergrad Internet Use
By Josh Baxt University of California San Diego computer scientists recently investigated how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced internet browsing during the lockdown. Armed with de-identified internet use data from UC San Diego dorm Wi-Fi, the researchers examined how online school and leisure...Read More
Nov 19, 2021
This tool protects your private data while you browse
By Ioana Patringenaru A team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and Brave Software have developed a tool that will increase protections for users’ private data while they browse the web. The tool, named SugarCoat, targets scripts that harm users’ privacy -- for...Read More
Nov 10, 2021
A Brief History of Minimal Surfaces and the Ants that Love Them
By Josh Baxt Consider a soap bubble. The way it contains the minimal possible surface area is surprisingly efficient. This is not a trivial issue. Mathematicians have been looking for better ways to calculate minimal surfaces for hundreds of years. Recently, Computer Science and Engineering...Read More
Nov 9, 2021
Want to Throw Off Your Chatbot? Use Figurative Language
By Ioana Patringenaru Computer scientists recently examined the performance of dialog systems, such as personal assistants and chatbots designed to interact with humans. The team found that when these systems are confronted with dialog that includes idioms or similes, their performance drops to...Read More