Apr 1, 2016
SDSC Summer Institute Invites Applications: HPC for the Long Tail of Science
CSE faculty, postdocs and students are invited to enroll in the San Diego Supercomputer Center's Summer Institute, which will run from August 1-5 at SDSC on the UC San Diego campus. The institute will provide a week of education and training in High Performance and Data Intensive Computing. This...Read More
Mar 30, 2016
CSE Professor Honored for Innovation in Network Security Research
CSE Prof. Stefan Savage is the recipient of the 2015 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Infosys Foundation cited Savage for innovative research in network security, privacy and reliability that has taught cybersecurity...Read More
Mar 29, 2016
UC San Diego Ranks #5 on Forbes List of Best Value Colleges
Forbes revamped its methodology for the magazine's Best Value Colleges of 2016, and UC San Diego came in at #5 for all public and private schools on the list, a far cry from its ranking at #123 by Forbes in 2015, when a more simplistic methodology was used to determine best value. UC San Diego is...Read More
Mar 28, 2016
In Absence of New Specialty Rankings, Computer Science at UC San Diego Is #15 Nationally, #9 Globally
The 2017 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools highly ranks UC San Diego's professional schools and programs in engineering and medicine. The Jacobs School of Engineering was ranked #17 out of 215 engineering schools, and the School of Medicine came in at #18 in the research...Read More
Mar 17, 2016
New Apple Watch App Provides Best Time to Cross International Borders
A team of three CSE undergraduates helped develop an app for the Apple Watch that provides users with wait times to enter the United States from its northern and southern borders at 70 different points of entry. The app is believed to be the first specifically for the Apple Watch developed by UC...Read More
Mar 17, 2016
Pacific Research Platform Awarded CENIC Innovations in Networking Award
Less than five months since the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided a $5 million, five-year grant to develop and deploy the Pacific Research Platform (PRP), the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives (CENIC) has selected the PRP for one of its top awards. Next week at CENIC 2016 on...Read More
Mar 11, 2016
Teaching Professors Win Second SIGCSE Best Paper in Four Years
Last week, two CSE teaching professors, Leo Porter and Beth Simon, were awarded the Best Paper Award at Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2016. Their winning paper, "A Multi-institutional Study of Peer Instruction in Introductory Computing"*, was selected from among 105...Read More
Mar 10, 2016
International Conference Invites CSE Professor to Deliver High-Profile Keynote
With the proliferation of big data and machine learning algorithms to analyze all of that data, more and more sensitive information about individuals is raising the risk of invading those individuals' privacy. That's the topic -- "Challenges in Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis" -- that CSE Prof....Read More
Mar 9, 2016
Closing the Gender Gap in Computer Science Education
International Women’s Day was March 8 and two CSE faculty members were invited to weigh in with their perspectives on how to close the gender gap in technology. The "inspiring" Associate Teaching Professor Christine Alvarado (below at right) and Assistant Teaching Professor Mia Minnes were featured...Read More
Mar 9, 2016
Gordon Center Invites Applications for 2016-2017 Academic Year
Undergraduate and graduate students in CSE and other Jacobs School of Engineering departments have until Monday, April 4, 2016, to apply for a Gordon Scholarship for the next school year. On March 11 the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center held an information session ahead of the application...Read More