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
Jul 23, 2016
'Critical Mass' in CSE for Computer Science Education Research
CSE represents one of the top programs worldwide in the area of computer science education research, according to the Computing Education Blog. Georgia Tech computer scientist Mark Guzdial, who writes the blog, noted that only two U.S. universities can boast of having established a 'critical mass'...Read More
Jul 23, 2016
Alumna to Launch App to Help Growers Monitor Crop Conditions
CSE alumna Chandra Krintz (at left) says she loves designing systems and solving problems. As a professor of computer science at UC Santa Barbara since 2001, Krintz (M.S., Ph.D. '98, '01) is doing both with a project called SmartFarm. She is developing a mobile app to "help growers identify real-...Read More
Jul 22, 2016
CSE Has #2 Cryptography Group Internationally in New Computer Science Rankings
UC San Diego computer science is among the top-10 programs in the nation and the world, according to a new method for Computer Science Rankings that is still in beta testing. A team led by University of Massachusetts at Amherst professor Emery Berger recently unveiled the CSRankings for university...Read More
Jul 14, 2016
Academia Sinica Elects (Partial) Retiree Fan Chung Graham
Professor Fan Chung Graham retired this month from her dual appointments in Computer Science and Engineering and Mathematics, also relinquishing her endowed chair as the Paul Erdős Professor in Combinatorics. But that's not the end of the story. Later this summer she will assume a part-time...Read More