Nov 15, 2017
Internet Society Honors CAIDA Director with Prestigious Service Award
CSE faculty-affiliate and alumna Kimberly (KC) Claffy (M.S. ‘91, Ph.D. ‘94) is the 2017 recipient of the prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. The Internet Society – a global non-profit dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet – called Claffy a “...Read More
Nov 15, 2017
Former CSE Student Gets Funding for High-Flying Startup from Hollywood and the Pentagon
A small San Diego-based startup launched by a former student in CSE to reduce the threat of accidents due to civilian drones flying dangerously is getting some traction from an unusual place: Hollywood. The company is SkySafe, and the Hollywood star is Ashton Kutcher. Exchange on Twitter between...Read More
Nov 14, 2017
Finding a Faster, More Accurate Way to Identify Molecular Structures of Natural Products
Roughly 70 percent of drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are based on natural products such as plants and microorganisms in the soil or in the ocean. Now, four researchers from the Computer Science and Engineering department are part of an interdisciplinary team from UC San...Read More
Nov 13, 2017
CSE Alumna Accepts Major Award in Electronic Design Automation
CSE alumna Ayse Coskun (Ph.D. '09) is back in Southern California on Monday, November 13 accepting an award from the Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA). The 2017 IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award will be given to Coskun during the opening session in Irvine of the 36th...Read More
Nov 13, 2017
Fruit Fly Brains Inform Search Engines of the Future
Every day, websites you visit and smartphone apps that you use are crunching huge sets of data to find things that resemble each other: products that are similar to your past purchases; songs that are similar to tunes you've liked; faces that are similar to people you've identified in photos. All...Read More
Nov 13, 2017
Computer Scientist and Oceanographer Realize Long-Time Dream for Undersea Exploration
UW's John Delaney and CSE's Larry Smarr celebrate delivery of remote-controlled HD video live feed to large display in Qualcomm Institute tiled display system.CSE professor Larry Smarr began talking with University of Washington oceanographer John Delaney in 2004 about the possibility of...Read More
Nov 11, 2017
Teaching Students How to Land an Internship Interview or Become a CSE Tutor
CSE undergraduates turned out this week for two important sessions organized by the student-run Computer Science and Engineering Society (CSES) for the 2017-2018 academic year. CSE lecturer Rick Ord with some of his tutors; photo taken on November 2, 2017.On Monday, Nov. 6, CSES held its first...Read More
Nov 2, 2017
UC San Diego Ranked #6 Worldwide for High-Quality Science
The University of California San Diego ranked 6th among leading research institutions in the world for “high-quality science,” based on its research publications in highly selective science journals. The global assessment and rankings were conducted by Nature Index, a database of author...Read More
Nov 1, 2017
Earth Microbiome Project Releases Preliminary Findings Based on 27,000 Samples
UC San Diego hosts mini-symposium to coincide with project report in the journal Nature Center for Microbiome Innovation director Rob Knight addresses the Earth Microbiome Project Mini-Symposium.The Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI), led by Pediatrics and Computer Science and Engineering...Read More
Oct 31, 2017
UC San Diego Scientists Create Device for Ultra-Accurate Genome Sequencing of Single Human Cells
Potential applications include precise early cancer detection Overview of experimental process using SISSOR technology. Single cell in suspension identified by imaging and captured, then chromosomal DNA molecules are separated into single-stranded form. Single-stranded DNA molecules are then...Read More