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
Jul 29, 2015
Systems, Security and Programming Languages Expert Joins Computer Science Faculty at UC San Diego
He won’t start work until next year, but Deian Stefan has accepted an appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of California, San Diego, effective in July. His research interests are in building principled and practical secure...Read More
Jul 27, 2015
CSE Hosts Inaugural New Computer Science Faculty Workshop
CSE teaching faculty Beth Simon and Leo Porter, along with Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech) and Cynthia Lee (Stanford), led a new annual workshop devised to help new faculty excel in teaching. Starting with a keynote address from Ed Lazowska, who holds the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer...Read More
Jul 20, 2015
Campus Supports CSE Initiative to Serve Students Interested in Computational Sciences
In an era of restrictions on the number of freshman and transfer students accepted into computer science and engineering majors, the CSE department has embarked on what it calls a "targeted effort to build and disseminate resources for students interested in studying the computational sciences at...Read More