May 29, 2015
Sustaining Up-to-Date CS Curriculum in Secondary Schools
CSE Associate Teaching Professor Beth Simon (at right) is a co-principal investigator on a new $1 million project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help three of the San Diego region's school districts develop model "villages" for introducing and sustaining up-to-date computer...Read More
May 28, 2015
CSE Inaugurates Graduate and Undergraduate Awards
CSE Undergraduate and Graduate Awards at End-of-Year BBQ Friday, June 5, 2015 11:30am - 3:00pm Calit2 Auditorium (Atkinson Hall) and CSE Courtyard The end of the academic year is upon us. Come celebrate with us at the CSE end-of-year BBQ on June 5. We will begin in the Calit2 Auditorium in...Read More
May 28, 2015
Graduate Town Hall Followed by Student-Run BBQ Social Hour
Graduate Town Hall, followed by Student-Run BBQ Social Hour Friday, May 29, 2015 2:00pm - 5:00pm CSE 1202 and CSE Courtyard Come join us for our regular graduate student town hall in CSE 1202. The town hall will start this Friday, May 29, with an information session from 2:00pm to 2:30pm, about...Read More
May 28, 2015
Gary Gillespie Honored for Excellence and Mentoring
He's not of Greek extraction, nor is he particularly involved with sororities or fraternities on the UC San Diego campus. But CSE lecturer Gary Gillespie (pictured below) was awarded the Outstanding Professor Award given out by the Panhellenic Association at UC San Diego. He accepted his award at...Read More
May 26, 2015
Alumnus Elevated to CEO at Games Company
A former member of the CSE Alumni Board, Matt Shea (BS, Computer Science '97) has now become Chief Executive Officer at the games company, WildTangent, where he has worked for 13 years. Two years ago the Puget Sound Business Journal named Shea to its list of "40 Under 40" leading executives in the...Read More
May 22, 2015
Taking Discovery Beyond Data
CSE Chair Rajesh Gupta made the cover of the UC San Diego Extension Summer 2015 Catalog, which carries a cover story on "Taking Discovery Beyond Data". Writer John B.B. Freeman interviewed Gupta for the article about the ways in which computer science is exploring new frontiers and making...Read More
May 22, 2015
Deadline to Submit IDI Proposals for Funding in 2015-16
Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra Brown and CSE Prof. Larry Smarr in his capacity as director of UC San Diego's Integrated Digital Infrastructure (IDI) initiative have set a deadline of June 15 for faculty seeking support of two kinds: funding for transformational projects, and funding for...Read More
May 22, 2015
Alumnus Reports on Advances in Encryption for the Cloud
"Data Encryption in the Cloud: Square Pegs in Round Holes" is the title of a guest article by CSE alumnus Tom Ristenpart (PhD '10), on Information Week's DARK Reading information security website. In it, the computer science professor from the University of Wisconsin reports that conventional...Read More
May 21, 2015
Discussion Groups for the Online Classroom (and Off)
CSE and Cogntive Science professor Scott Klemmer (right) is one of the brains behind a new tool called Talkabout, developed at UC San Diego and Stanford and already deployed as part of Klemmer's massive open online course (MOOC) on human-computer interaction. Talkabout is a virtual discussion...Read More
May 19, 2015
A Graduate Student's Perspective on Data Scientists
As CSE seeks campus approval for a new major in Data Science and Engineering, Ph.D. student Zachary Chase Lipton asks the question: "Will the real data scientists please stand up?" That's the title of his May 19 column in KDnuggets, which covers data mining, analytics, big data and data scence. In...Read More