Apr 30, 2015
Faculty to Share Experience of Transformational Projects in IDI Showcase Events
Faculty from CSE and other departments are invited to attend one of the three showcase events organized by the Integrated Digital Infrastructure (IDI) program on May 6 and 7 at different locations around campus. The IDI was conceived a year ago to provide a campus-wide approach to applying advanced...Read More
Apr 30, 2015
Savage Comments on Possible Spear Phishing Attack by Russian Hackers
There is a new type of cyberwar that goes beyond phishing scams. A security firm reports that in so-called "spear phishing", a group of hackers get hold of confidential "lure" documents that can be dangled in front of officials to get them to open emails with malicious attachments. The first large-...Read More
Apr 29, 2015
What Does It Mean to Be Literate in the Age of Google?
What does it mean to be literate at a time when you can search billions of texts in less than 300 milliseconds? That's the central question that Google's Uber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness, Dan Russell, will tackle in his lecture on Monday, May 6 as part of the Design Lab's Design...Read More
Apr 28, 2015
Big Pixel Hackathon Set for May 23
Three "hackers" will each win $500 cash awards if they are in the winners' circle at the conclusion of the Hackathon organized by the Big Pixel Initiative at UC San Diego. Beyond the top three spots, however, the Hackathon to Discover the Planet could open up opportunities for UC San Diego...Read More
Apr 23, 2015
Student Startups Among Finalists in Social Innovation Challenge
Two CSE student startups have reached the finals of the San Diego Social Innovation Challenge. The companies -- Evocado, and Bystanders to Upstanders -- will participate in a final round of judging on April 28 along with three other teams from UC San Diego that are among the eight finalists in the...Read More
Apr 23, 2015
CSE Students Prepare to Stand and Deliver at Undergraduate Research Conference
The 28th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference takes places this Saturday, April 25. It will run from 8am to 4pm at the Faculty Club. Many of the CSE students set to speak at the conference were 2014-15 participants in the department's Early Research Scholars Program. Among the CSE students set...Read More
Apr 23, 2015
Alumnus Looks Back at Inaugural Introduction to Robotics Course
Recent CSE alumnus Chris Barngrover (MS '10, PhD '14) developed a new CSE 190 course, Introduction to Robotics, which he first taught during the Winter 2015 quarter, juggling lectures to undergraduates with his full-time job in SPAWAR's Unmanned Systems group (where he works on computer vision for...Read More
Apr 21, 2015
Nominations for Campus-Wide Outstanding Senior, Graduate Student
CSE faculty, students, staff and alumni, along with those from across campus, are eligible to nominate candidates for the most outstanding senior and/or the most outstanding graduate or professional student. In both categories, only students who are graduating this year can be nominated. The annual...Read More
Apr 17, 2015
Center for Visual Computing Makes Debut at 2015 Research Expo
The new Center for Visual Computing, an 'agile' research center based in the CSE department, had its official unveiling April 16 during the 2015 Research Expo of the Jacobs School of Engineering. Making it official, CSE Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi (pictured) presented an outline of the center's current...Read More
Apr 17, 2015
At Research Expo, M.S. Student Selected for Best CSE Poster
Twenty CSE graduate students presented their research to an estimated 650 people attending the Jacobs School's Research Expo on April 16. Among all CSE entries, the computer science best poster award went to Narendran Thangarajan (pictured at left), a Master's student advised by CSE research...Read More