Aug 8, 2016
ThoughtSTEM Lands $750K SBIR Grant; CTO Moves to GitHub
Another big win for ThoughtSTEM, the San Diego company launched by two recent Ph.D. alumni of the CSE department. The computer science education startup has been awarded a $750,000 grant from NSF's Small Business Innovation Research program to expand use of ThoughtSTEM's LearnToMod software that...Read More
Aug 5, 2016
Faculty-Affiliate on Cross-Cultural Multimedia Computing
Shlomo Dubnov is a computer scientist by training (his Ph.D. is from Hebrew University), but his primary appointment at UC San Diego is in the Department of Music. But Dubnov is also an affiliated faculty member in the Computer Science and Engineering department, and his latest work has just been...Read More
Aug 5, 2016
Undergraduate Summer Research Showcase
More than 300 UC San Diego undergraduates from CSE and other departments will present faculty-mentored research to peers, professors and the general public at the annual Summer Research Conference on Aug. 13. The conference is organized by UC San Diego Academic Enrichment Programs and is open to...Read More
Aug 2, 2016
NOVA Paves the Way for Storage Class Memory File Systems
Intel expects to start selling 3D Xpoint storage class memory (SCM) before the end of 2016 in the form of its Optane solid-state device (SSD). But experts believe the real payoff from SCM will come when systems connect the SCM directly to the processor, yielding hybrid memory systems that include...Read More
Aug 1, 2016
CSE Student Among First Recipients of SIGHPC/Intel Fellowship
CSE Ph.D. student Michael Barrow (at right) will be recognized this November at Supercomputing (SC) 2016 as one of the first-ever 14 graduate students selected to receive an inaugural research fellowship funded by Intel in collaboration with the Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing...Read More
Jul 28, 2016
Software Engineering Online: Introductory, or Intermediate?
Aspiring programmers have the choice between two levels of software engineering commissioned by the Coursera online platform and sponsored by Google. Starting April 1, learners can choose between courses at the introductory (beginner) level or the intermediate level. When Coursera went in search...Read More
Jul 28, 2016
CSE Appoints Department Financial Manager
CSE has a new Financial Manager, effective immediately, but she didn't have to come from far -- just down Warren Mall. Irene Xavier worked in the Dean's office of the Jacobs School of Engineering, where she has been the Fiscal Operations Manager since 2014. Before that, she held positions as...Read More
Jul 27, 2016
Accelerating Design Times for High-Performance Systems-on-Chip
A team of computer scientists and electrical engineers from four U.S. universities have been awarded a joint project with nearly $5 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Led by University of California San Diego computer-engineering professor Rajesh Gupta,...Read More
Jul 26, 2016
KnuEdge, UC San Diego Host Conference, Competition to Drive Next-Gen Machine Learning Performance
Former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, now CEO of KnuEdge, and Calit2 Director Larry Smarr have announced the Heterogeneous Neural Networks (HNN) Conference, to be held in spring 2017 in San Diego, Calif. KnuEdge delivers LambdaFabric neural computing technology that accelerates machine learning and...Read More
Jul 25, 2016
Computer Scientists Find Way to Make All That Glitters More Realistic in Computer Graphics
Iron Man’s suit. Captain America’s shield. The Batmobile. These all could look a lot more realistic thanks to a new algorithm developed by a team of U.S. computer graphics experts. The researchers, led by Professor Ravi Ramamoorthi at the University of California San Diego, have created a method...Read More