May 15, 2015
Students Put Finishing Touches to 3D, Multiplayer Networked Games
Mark June 5th on your calendar. That's when five teams of students taking the CSE 125 capstone course on software system design and implementation -- better known as "the videogame course" -- will present their final projects and give audience members an opportunity to play the 3D, networked and...Read More
May 15, 2015
CSE Computer Security Startup Starts Selling Toolkit
A startup out of the CSE department is flexing its muscles. This week, Tortuga Logic's co-founder and CEO, CSE alumnus Jason Oberg (PhD '13) announced immediate availability of the company's toolkit to transform the way hardware designers and system architects test the security of hardware designs...Read More
May 14, 2015
Gordon Center Stages Sixth Annual Think Tank
This Friday and Saturday, the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center is hosting another of its "Think Tank" symposium series, this one focused on digital health. Think Tank: The Future of Digital Health May 15-16, 2015 Friday 8am-5pm; Saturday 8am-2pm Qualcomm Conference Center Jacobs...Read More
May 14, 2015
2015 Chancellor's Dissertation Medal Honors CSE Alumna
CSE alumna Sarah Meiklejohn received her Ph.D. in computer science in 2014, and soon after accepted a faculty position at University College London in the UK, where she is a lecturer and assistant professor in the computer science as well as security-and-crime departments. For a researcher with...Read More
May 12, 2015
CSE's Smarr Called 'Unlikely Hero' of Global Movement
Calit2 Director and CSE Prof. Larry Smarr made the front page of The Washington Post. The May 9 article, “The Human Upgrade: The Revolution Will Be Digitized” by technology writer Ariana Cha, explores the movement to quantify consumers’ health and lifestyles, spearheaded by a flood of wearable...Read More
May 12, 2015
CSE Gives Transfer Students a Head Start
This summer CSE is one of several departments that will launch a new program for incoming transfer students arriving in Fall 2015. The Summer Academy will run from August 2 through September 5, and only transfer students majoring in computer science and engineering, biological sciences, electrical...Read More
May 12, 2015
Register to Participate in Big Pixel Hackathon
Imagine being able to count every car in every city, monitor illegal elephant poaching from your couch, or measure the total area of solar panels on the planet. Geospatial big data is an emerging industry, with nearly a billion dollars in cash flowing into satellite imagery and analytics startups...Read More
May 8, 2015
Knight, Smarr Raise Profile of Microbiome Research
Two computer scientists at UC San Diego are raising the profile of research on the human microbiome -- the 100 trillion human cells in and on each human body, of which only 10 trillion are human. The correct balance of microbes can keep pathogens in check and regulate the immune system, and...Read More
May 6, 2015
CSE Students Invited to Apply for SDSC Summer Institute
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) has announced the topic of its 2015 Summer Institute, which runs from August 10-14: High Performance Computing for the Long Tail of Science. The Summer Institute is a week-long education and training program in HPC and data-intensive computing. Priority...Read More
May 4, 2015
Social App Wins Prize at USD Social Innovation Challenge
CSE junior Sneha Jayaprakash and her team of a dozen fellow students, most from CSE, in the social startup Bystanders to Upstanders, were one of three teams that each took $10,000 in prize money in the USD Social Innovation Challenge awards handed out on Friday evening. A total of 15 finalists made...Read More