Jun 12, 2017
After 10 Weeks, CSE Students Demonstrate 3D, Networked Multiplayer Games
CSE professor Geoffrey M. Voelker teaches CSE 125 each spring. The course on "Software System Design and Implementation" gave 32 seniors an opportunity to showcase everything they learned in the past four years. Nominally, the course is a 10-week project to build a large, complex, distributed...Read More
Jun 12, 2017
First Authors of Accepted VLDB 2017 Papers Give 'Dry Run' Presentations to Data Base Seminar
43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases will run August 28 through September 1 at TU Munich in Germany.As we reported last week, CSE professors and students played an important role at ACM SIGMOD 2017. It's considered one of the two premier venues for data management researchers...Read More
Jun 12, 2017
Hackathon Offers Welcoming Environment for Women in Computer Science
In early June, UC San Diego staged a hackathon, HackXX, for young women, most of them students in computer science or computer engineering at UC San Diego. According to organizers, only 20 percent of hackathon participants are women, and they wanted "to build a welcoming environment to encourage...Read More
Jun 10, 2017
Helping Kids Explore Computer Science and STEM Technologies
Here's another deadline: June 12. That's the cutoff date to apply for a scholarship for young women, ages between 7 and 17, to to participate free of charge in one of the Summer Coding Camps for Kids at UC San Diego, organized by ThoughtSTEM. The company was launched by CSE alumni Stephen Foster (...Read More
Jun 9, 2017
CSE Students, Faculty to Be Honored at Jacobs School Ring Ceremony
Student of the Year Ryan Hill (B.S. '17)Jacobs School of Engineering Dean Albert P. Pisano will host the annual Ring Ceremony and hand out the school's 2017 Annual Awards to student and faculty winners in multiple categories on Saturday, June 17 from 8-10pm on Warren Mall. CSE personnel are among...Read More
Jun 9, 2017
Ph.D. Candidate Defends Thesis on Coordinating Dynamics in Human-Robot Teams
Tariq Iqbal with robotIt's a long way from his native Bangladesh to La Jolla, California, where Ph.D. candidate Tariq Iqbal mounted the final defense of his dissertation in the field of robotics on June 8. Iqbal followed his advisor, professor Laurel Riek, from the University of Notre Dame to UC...Read More
Jun 6, 2017
Arduino Workshops Open to Campus Community
Attention staff, faculty and students in the Computer Science and Engineering department: all are welcome to join one or two Arduino two-hour workshops being held on campus this week. Date: Thursday, June 8, 2017Time: 2pm - 8pmLocation: Qualcomm Conference Center, Jacobs Hall, UC San Diego...Read More
Jun 5, 2017
CSE Students and Professors Stage Major Presence at SIGMOD 2017
CSE had a major presence at this year's ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), the premier venue for research in data management. The 2017 meeting took place in mid-May in Chicago jointly with PODS, the premier international conference on the theoretical aspects of database...Read More
Jun 4, 2017
CSE Alumnus Organizes First ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things
CSE alumnus Bharathan Balaji (Ph.D. '16) is now a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA, and he is trying to get the word out about a brand-new conference: the 1st ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings 2017). It's slated for November 5 at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in...Read More
Jun 2, 2017
Seniors Make Final Tweaks to CSE 125 Multiplayer Videogames
Team A42JS's game is a 3rd-person, cooperative, horror-themed survival gameIt's not often that the final project presentations of an undergraduate computer-science course attracts a standing-room-only audience of students and visitors from across campus. But that's par for the course when...Read More