Aug 12, 2015
Fast and Vulnerable
A recent alumnus of CSE’s BS/MS program, Ian Foster (MS ’15), gave a high-profile talk this week at the Aug. 10-11 USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 2015) in Washington, D.C., on the eve of the much larger USENIX Security conference. Foster (who is now at Salesforce), CSE Prof. Stefan...Read More
Aug 12, 2015
Pinpointing a Security Vulnerability in How Computers Use Memory
In the Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT) where the paper on automotive hacking was presented (see stories above), another former member of CSE’s Security and Cryptography group had new research to present. CSE alumnus Stephen Checkoway (PhD ‘12) presented a paper with the eye-catching...Read More
Aug 12, 2015
Alumnus, Postdoc Offer Way to Make Embedded Systems More Secure
CSE postdoctoral researcher Karl Koscher (near left) was the first author on another paper presented at the Workshop on Offensive Technologies, jointly with Microsoft’s David Molnar and CSE alumnus Tadayoshi Kohno (PhD ’06) (far left), who was Koscher’s advisor at the University of Washington. They...Read More
Aug 6, 2015
CSE Students, Alumnus and Faculty Build RIFFA for FPGA
CSE students have built a Reuasble Integration Framework for FPGA Accelerators (RIFFA) for communicating data from a computer processor to a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The open-source technology, which can be used with any FPGA vendor on Windows or Linux, could lead to faster design...Read More
Aug 6, 2015
Five Years On, Car Hacking Research Still Triggering Alarms
Research dating back to 2010 in the lab of CSE Prof. Stefan Savage is still making headlines. In an article published by dozens of newspapers this week, the Associated Press reported that hackers are still able to hack automotive systems from a distance -- forcing Fiat Chrysler to become the first...Read More
Aug 5, 2015
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 4, 2015
CSE and Facebook at SIGCOMM 2015
A team from CSE is getting ready to attend the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on applications, technologies, architectures and protocols of computer communication. The week-long SIGCOMM 2015 takes place in London, UK, starting Aug. 17, and three...Read More
Aug 3, 2015
Moxie Foundation Gift Supports CSE Assistive Technologies
A $300,000 gift from the Moxie Foundation will support computer scientists at UC San Diego who are researching and developing high-tech assistive technology to help individuals with disabilities. The funding will support teams of undergraduate and graduate students led by Nadir Weibel, a research...Read More
Aug 3, 2015
Startup with CSE Roots Present at First-Ever White House Demo Day
On Aug. 4, CSE was represented by at least one startup company selected to showcase their technology at the first Demo Day organized by the White House. The company's name is Wearless Tech Inc., and its first product is the Cocoon Cam, an "intelligent video baby monitor." Then-CSE graduate...Read More
Aug 2, 2015
NSF Gives Green Light to Pacific Research Platform under CSE's Smarr
UC San Diego , UC Berkeley lead creation of West Coast big data freeway system For the last three years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has made a series of competitive grants to over 100 U.S. universities to aggressively upgrade their campus network capacity for greatly enhanced science...Read More