Apr 27, 2017
CSE, Qualcomm Institute Offer VR App Development Professional Courses Online
UC San Diego develops first MOOC series on virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is one of the hottest emerging technologies in the entertainment industry today. Millions of VR devices have been sold in the U.S. alone, but most software developers have no formal training on the technology. Now VR...Read More
Apr 26, 2017
Rosing Students Take CSE Best Poster Award at Research Expo 2017
A truly interdisciplinary team finished the 2017 Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo with the Best Poster award in the Computer Science and Engineering category. The departmental prize went to a team of students from CSE and ECE advised by CSE computer engineering professor Tajana Rosing....Read More
Apr 20, 2017
Hacking into a Lost World
Somewhere in the at-risk ruins of Khirbat en-Nahas in the Faynan region of southern Jordan lie untold stories of copper mining and smelting industries from the time of David and Solomon and the Edomite kings. Stories that, until now, could only be told in words, maps and photographs. Thanks to UC...Read More
Apr 19, 2017
Detecting Network Bugs in 99% of Mobile Apps
CSE Ph.D. candidate Xinxin Jin is getting ready to defend her dissertation in early May in front of a committee chaired by her advisor, CSE Prof. Yuanyuan Zhou. Also sitting on the committee will be: CSE professors Bill Griswold, Alex Snoeren and Geoffrey Voelker, as well as ECE professor and...Read More
Apr 18, 2017
UC San Diego Computer Science Degree #3 for 20-Year Return on Investment
What's a computer science undergraduate education worth to computer science graduates of UC San Diego? In the 20 years after graduation, UC San Diego alumni are averaging a return on their investment of more than a million dollars. 2017 PayScale report ranks CSE #3 for return on...Read More
Apr 18, 2017
Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps
A partnership between computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and Google has allowed the search giant to reduce by 70 percent fraudulent business listings in Google Maps. The researchers worked together to analyze more than 100,000 fraudulent listings to determine how scammers...Read More
Apr 17, 2017
Three CSE Undergrads Land Kleiner Perkins Fellowships
Three CSE undergraduates have been selected for prestigious fellowships by one of the top technology investment firms in the Bay Area. They are among 57 college students selected from roughly 2,500 applicants from over 200 universities nationwide to be part of the Kleiner Perkins Caulfield &...Read More
Apr 16, 2017
Algorithmic Dense Model Theorems, Generative Adversarial Networks and Regularity
This talk by UC San Diego computer science professor Russell Impagliazzo is part of the CSE department's Theory Seminar Series for Spring 2017. Russell ImpagliazzoDate: April 24, 2017Time: 2-3pmLocation: Room 4258, CSE Building Abstract Green and Tao ([GT04]) used the existence of a dense...Read More
Apr 15, 2017
Spectral Library Construction and Matching of MS/MS Spectra at Repository Scales
CSE Ph.D. candidate Mingxun Wang is set to mount the final defense of his doctoral dissertation on Monday, April 24. He works in bioinformatics, and on computational mass spectrometry specifically, with applications to proteomics, metabolomics and natural product discovery. Wang's dissertation...Read More
Apr 12, 2017
Chancellor among UC San Diego Faculty Elected to Prestigious Academy
Four professors from UC San Diego have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s most esteemed honorary societies and independent policy research centers. The new members will be inducted at a ceremony on October 7, 2017 in Cambridge, MA, and the inductees will...Read More