May 15, 2017
CSE Department Honored for Efforts to Ensure Academic Integrity
At the campus-wide 7th annual Integrity Awards Ceremony, UC San Diego recognized 11 individual members of the campus community and one entire department: Computer Science and Engineering. The ceremony took place on April 19 to honor contributions to academic, research and professional integrity at...Read More
May 12, 2017
Women in Computer Architecture
CSE students have an opportunity to hear from a guest speaker who can talk about her own experiences in the field of computer architecture. Dr. Srilatha (Bobbie) Manne will be the guest speaker on Tuesday, May 23 from 6-8PM in the Fung Auditorium of the Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall. The final...Read More
May 12, 2017
Alumni Education Startup Seeks to Hire Two CS Undergrads to Mentor Youngsters in Sunday Workshops
The alumni-run startup ThoughtSTEM is looking for some of the best undergraduate students in computer science at UC San Diego. The part-time, paid positions involve mentoring local San Diego students at the coding workshops the company runs on Sundays at UC San Diego. ThoughtSTEM teaches local San...Read More
May 11, 2017
Giving Students a Place to Prep for Tomorrow's Virtual (Reality) Economy
Computer science department opens high-tech teaching lab for undergraduates San Diego, May 11, 2017 — It’s a laboratory that looks like a cross between a classroom and a tech pavilion at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. There are virtual-reality headsets everywhere, and large,...Read More
May 11, 2017
Interest in Campus Virtual Reality Club Reaches All-Time High
San Diego, May 11, 2017 — The opening of the Virtual Reality Lab (see main article) in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department, co-developed with the Qualcomm Institute, coincides with phenomenal growth in the number of UC San Diego students signing up for membership in the student-...Read More
May 3, 2017
Undergraduate Data Science at UC Berkeley
As CSE gets ready to offer an undergraduate degree in Data Science, the program invited UC Berkeley professor John DeNero to speak on how the Berkeley campus reacted to his new Foundations of Data Science course (data8.org) -- the fastest growing elective course in UC Berkeley history, with over 1,...Read More
May 3, 2017
Making Parsers More Accessible
Ph.D. candidate Alan Leung (M.S. '13) says he likes to create tools that "make it easier to build complex systems reliably." These include a tool for automating the construction of parsers -- programs that extract structure from strings -- for context-free languages. Now, Leung is poised for the...Read More
May 3, 2017
Database Lab Faculty and Students at ICDE 2017
The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) took place this year in San Diego, with UC San Diego organizing the event. The three-day meeting took place in late April at the Hilton San Diego Resort and Spa in Mission Bay. ICDE speakers explored research issues in designing,...Read More
May 2, 2017
Smarr, Christensen Among Speakers on Impact of Innovation at Xconomy Forum
CSE professor and Calit2 director Larry Smarr laid out his "vision for a looming transformation in healthcare" at the recent Xconomy San Diego Forum on the Human Impact of Innovation, according to a May 2 report on the Xconomy.com news site. Smarr predicted that a "planetary" computer would be able...Read More
Apr 28, 2017
Jacobs School, CSE Honor Recently Appointed Endowed Chair Holders
CSE and the Jacobs School of Engineering are celebrating two CSE professors who were awarded endowed chairs in the past year. The appointments of professors Tajana Rosing and Stefan Savage, both of whom are affiliated with the Center for Networked Systems (CNS), were previously announced, but now...Read More