| Frontiers of Technology | A Connection in Every Spot
(Article published online in Wired Magazine), Oct. 16, 2003 - Engineers meeting this week at UbiComp 2003, a ubiquitous-computing conference in Seattle, believe that technology -- rather than isolating people within virtual spaces -- should be forming real-world connections amongst flesh-and-blood human beings. (Quotes by CSE Professor William Griswold included in article.)
[full story] |  |  CSE Faculty Participate in SIGGRAPH Conference
CSE faculty participated in force at the 30th anniversary of SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group: Graphics),
the premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, which took place from
July 27-31, 2003. With an estimated 25,000 people attending the conference and concurrent trade
show at the San Diego Convention Center, CSE faculty members Henrik Jensen, David Kriegman, Serge
Belongie and Mike Bailey organized special courses, delivered papers and showcased new graphics techniques.
[full story] | | Larry Smarr Authors Article in Wired Magazine
In a bylined article for the June 2003 issue, entitled "Microcosmos", CSE professor and Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr writes about "the new space race...and the battle for more and more control over less and less." "I have seen the future, and it is small," he writes, and concludes that the scientists and engineers working in the nano arena of the future will be "masters of bioinfonanotech."
[full story] | |  CSE Researchers Learn Lessons About Evolution and Cancer from Genome Comparisons
Genome scientists have confirmed a revolutionary new view of what happens in the human genome to cause dramatic evolutionary changes. Boinformaticians at UCSD -- who posited that 'fragile' regions exist in the human genome that are more susceptible to gene rearrangements -- are collaborating with biologists to see if their new theory can yield potentially life-saving insights into diseases such as breast cancer, in which chromosomal rearrangements are implicated. "It took only three months to go from theory to hard scientific evidence that there are regions of the genome that are subject to evolutionary 'earthquakes' over and over again," says CSE Professor Pavel Pevzner.
[full story] | | CSE Researchers Estimate Approximately 400 Fragile Regions in the Human Genome that are Vulnerable to Evolutionary 'Earthquakes'
CSE Professor Pavel Pevzner and Researcher Glenn Tesler have uncovered evidence that major evolutionary changes are more likely to occur in approximately 400 fragile genomic regions that account for only 5 percent of the human genome. The findings, reported in the June 24 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), undercut the widely held view among scientists that evolutionary breakpoints - disruptions in the order of genes on chromosomes - are purely random. Apart from its implications for evolutionary theory, the study could have major implications for medical research related to diseases such as leukemia, which are caused by clinical (rather than evolutionary) chromosomal breakpoints.
[full story] | |  UCSD CSE Members Analyze Internet Worm
A team of California researchers, including CSE's David Moore and Stefan Savage, recently
released an analysis of the Sapphire worm that paralyzed portions of the Internet on January 25th.
They determined that the worm infected 90% of susceptible hosts in less than ten minutes, with a peak
scanning rate of more than 55 million hosts per second. This work has been widely reported, including articles in
the San Jose Business Journal
and Sign on San Diego.
[full story] | | Dean Tullsen and Intel Fuel Revolution in Microprocessing
CSE Professor Dean Tullsen's research on simultaneous multithreading (SMT) provides a revolutionary
advance in computer processor performance. Intel unveiled its SMT-enabled (a.k.a "hyper-threading") Pentium
4 Xeon processor early this year. The new SMT-enabled processor will as much double a chip's processing power
at a 5% hardware cost. Related articles can be found on UPI and
Sign On San Diego.
[full story] | | Human or Computer? Take this test.
CSE Professor Serge Belongie's co-developed computer vision method assists in authentication
techniques to prevent computers from registering automatically at sites. New York Times Science writer
Sara Robinson reports on efforts to develop authentication techniques to prevent computers from
registering automatically at sites, and mentions work and computer-vision method co-developed by CSE's Serge Belongie.
New York Times Story
| | | CSE Department News |  Students Complete Multi-Player Web Games for Software Design Course
They're video games you won't play at your local arcade, on your Xbox or Playstation, or even online. Games such as Fusion Racing, CARnage, and Gory Toon Massacre XP. Or Loops, and Star Control. That is because all five games were designed by computer science seniors in Spring 2003 as their main requirement for CSE 190, one of the hottest courses on campus.
[full story] | |  CSE Celebration in Honor of Walt Savitch Held on June 12, 2003
CSE celebrated Walt Savitch's 60th birthday as well as his 30+ years of service to UCSD at an event held at UCSD's Eucalyptus point on June 12, 2003. The event featured two distinguished speakers, Professor Stephen Cook (University of Toronto) and Professor Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania). A reception in honor of Professor Savitch, who is retiring at the end of the 2002-03 academic year, concluded the program.
[full story] | | UCSD Programs Schools Ranked Among Nation's Best in U.S. News & World Report Survey
In the latest survey of graduate programs released by U.S. News & World Report, the ranking
of the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering and the Computer Science and Engineering Department
continued to rise. Computer Science and Engineering rankings included computer science (20),
computer systems (16) and computer engineering (15).
[full story] | |  Active Campus
Researchers in CSE have launched an ambitious project called ActiveCampus to test whether wireless
technology can be used to enrich the classroom and campus experience for students and professors alike.
[full story] | |  Videogame Course Profiled on UCSD-TV
CSE Professor Geoff Voelker's Videogame Course (CSE 125) was profiled on UCSD-TV on January 21.
The newest episode of UCSD Conversations aired on UCSD-TV over cable and direct broadcast,
and featured course CSE 190 that has seniors designing and building videogames that can be
played simultaneously by more than four players, over the Internet.
To view segment (RealPlayer required).
[full story] | | CSE Holds AT&T Retreat
An AT&T Networking Retreat was held in the CSE department in September 2002. CSE networking faculty
hosted AT&T researchers who spent two days presenting research and conducting round-table discussions
focusing on practical applications. CSE graduate students also met with AT&T researchers in order to
evaluate potential internship opportunities.
| | CSE Creates Fluency in IT Course for Non-Engineers
In January, CSE Professor Walt Savitch inaugurated the first information technology course designed to
impart conceptual, problem-solving as well as technical skills to campus undergraduate students.
The Fluency in Information Technology course is the first in a series of courses on information
technology prepared by CSE and will be a basic educational requirement for entering Sixth College freshman.
[full story] | | Freshman Reception Held
The 1st Annual CSE Freshmen Reception was held on January 14, 2003 at the UCSD Faculty Club.
The event, sponsored by Microsoft, drew about 45 attendees including several CSE faculty and staff.
Students enjoyed an afternoon of food, motivational talks by Frieder Seible and Mohan Paturi, and free raffles for
textbooks, software, and UCSD bookstore gift certificates.
| | Freshman Seminars Offered
As part of UCSD's commitment to enhance the first-year experience of all entering freshman,
Freshman Seminars will provide an opportunity for new students to interact with faculty members in an
informal, small-group setting. Winter 2003 offering from CSE include:
The Slide Rule: The Original Mind-Powered/Mind-Empowering Handheld Computer, A Brief History of Digital
Computers, and Neural Networks as Models of the Mind. Additional seminars will be offered in spring quarter.
| | | UCSD & Jacobs School News | Titans of Technology Speak at UCSD
Michael Dell, founder and chief executive officer of Dell Computer Corp. and Bill Gates, founder and chief software architect for Microsoft both spoke with the UCSD community during the month of May 2003. "A Conversation with Michael Dell" took place on Tuesday, May 20th and "The Magic of Software in the Digital Decade: A Conversation with Bill Gates" took place on Tuesday, May 27th.
[full story] | | Titans of Technology Speak at UCSD
Michael Dell, founder and chief executive officer of Dell Computer Corp. and Bill Gates, founder and chief software architect for Microsoft both spoke with the UCSD community during the month of May 2003. "A Conversation with Michael Dell" took place on Tuesday, May 20th and "The Magic of Software in the Digital Decade: A Conversation with Bill Gates" took place on Tuesday, May 27th.
[full story] | | Jacobs School Ranks 11th and CSE 17th in Latest U.S. News Rankings
In the annual survey of graduate schools and programs released by U.S. News & World Report, the UCSD
Jacobs School of Engineering was ranked 11th in the nation (7th among public engineering schools), and CSE's
computer engineering program ranked 17th. The rankings appear in the 2004 America's Best Graduate Schools guidebook
and in the April 14 edition of the U.S. News & World Report weekly magazine. The survey results also appear on-line
at www.usnews.com. Since 1990, the Jacobs School has moved up 27 slots,
making it the fastest rising engineering school in the country. With $130 million in annual research expenditures,
the Jacobs School also ranks 2nd in the nation for research expenditures per faculty member.
[full story] | | UCSD Announces $110 Million Gift for Engineering
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) announced today that former faculty member Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs,
CEO and Chairman of Qualcomm, Inc., and his wife Joan Jacobs, have made a $110 million gift to the UCSD Jacobs
School of Engineering. The couple's gift includes $10 million payable over the next five years to support students
and faculty at the school, and a planned gift of $100 million, comprised of an irrevocable charitable remainder
trust and a bequest intention that will build the school's endowment and create scholarships, fellowships and
faculty support. This the largest gift in the history of UCSD, and one of the nation's largest individual gifts
to an engineering school.
[full story] | | Frieder Seible Named Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering
Dr. Frieder Seible has been appointed Dean of the UCSD Jacobs School of
Engineering. Dr. Seible has served as Interim Dean of the Jacobs
School since July of 2002, and previously was the founding Chair of
the Department of Structural Engineering, and Director of the Charles
Lee Powell Structural Research Laboratories. Dr. Seible is a member
of the National Academy of Engineering, a visionary leader, an
internationally acclaimed expert in bridge design and earthquake
engineering, and deeply committed to students and education.
[full story] | | Jacobs School 2003 Research Review
The Jacobs School hosted its 4th annual Research Review February 28, 2003. This year's theme, Data to Decision,
explored DNA databases to video and sensor networks while speakers discussed their new systems for analyzing
data and for putting the data to use in predicting, assessing and responding to today's challenges.
[full story] | | | Industry Happenings |  CSE Alumnus Creates Spider-Man: The Movie, One of Today's Hottest Video Games
CSE Alumnus Don Likeness started Santa Monica-based computer game company Treyarch in 1995 with the Die By
The Sword program which went on to become a cult classic. Under Likeness presidency, Treyarch has grown to
nearly 200 employees with sales doubling ever year. The company has developed games for leading publishers
including Interplay, Electronic Arts, Mattel, and Sega, and has developed some 20 games to date, including
their most recent hit, Spider-Man: The Movie. Likeness is currently planning a seminar at UCSD on what goes
into a modern game project, especially from the programmer's point of view.
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| | | Faculty and Student Accomplishments |  UCSD Receives $3.4 Million for Graduate Training in Vision and Learning in Humans and Machines
Researchers at UCSD, led by PI and CSE Professor Gary Cottrell, have been awarded a $3.4 million grant
from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish an interdisciplinary program to train graduate
students in the areas of human learning, human vision, computer vision, and machine learning. The grant,
titled 'Vision and Learning in Humans and Machines,' is funded through the NSF's IGERT (Integrative
Graduate Education and Research Training) program and will offer two-year fellowships to approximately
15 new students per year. The fellowships will be available to U.S. citizens, and will include a
$27,500 annual stipend, as well as tuition and fees.
[full story] | |  Elkan Receives Sun Donation For Intelligent Data Mining
Charles Elkan, CSE Associate Professor and a member of the Interfaces and Software Systems
layer of the UCSD Division of Cal-(IT)2, has received a $50K donation from Sun Microsystems
to support research on intelligent data mining. The funds will be used to support a second-
or third-year Ph.D. student possibly to extend work on clustering algorithms conducted by
recent Ph.D. graduate Greg Hamerly.
[full story] | | CSE Faculty Among UCSD Researchers Receiving $14 Million from NSF for Information Technology Projects
Twenty-one faculty members and researchers will investigate topics ranging from how to make cryptography
easier to use to the development of better computer simulations of cell physiology. CSE Faculty involved
in these projects include Scott Baden, Francine Berman, Henri Casanova, Andrew Chien, Alin Deutsch,
Russell Impagliazzo, Bertram Ludascher, Daniele Micciancio, Alon Orlitsky, Yannis Papakonstantinou
and Victor Vianu. NSF ITR Press Release.
[full story] | |  NSF Awards $1.8 Million for Experimental Grid Infrastructure
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1.8 million Research Infrastructure grant
over five years to UCSD to outfit the new CSE building with a Fast Wired and Wireless Grid (FWGrid).
According to Andrew Chien, CSE professor and FWGrid principal investigator, "Experimental computer
science requires extensive equipment infrastructure to perform large-scale and leading-edge studies.
With the FWGrid, our new building will represent a microcosm of what Grid computing will look like five
years into the future."
Award Abstract
[full story] | | Dean Tullsen Receives IBM Faculty Award
CSE Professor Dean Tullsen has been awarded a 2003 IBM Faculty Award in the amount of $20,000. The IBM Faculty
Awards are competitive awards that are intended to: Foster collaboration between researchers at leading
universities worldwide and those in IBM research, development and services organizations; and Promote
courseware and curriculum development to stimulate growth in disciplines and geographies that are strategic
to IBM. Faculty Awards are granted annually on a global basis. Awardees must have an outstanding
reputation for contributions in their field.
| |  Student Winners of Spring 2003 Rendering Contest Unveiled
The results from the (first annual) rendering competition for CSE course 190 (Rendering Algorithms) have been announced. Students wrote their rendering systems from scratch with just a few basic C++ classes. The winners were selected based on their technical difficulty, level of innovation, and the overall aesthetic appeal of the resulting images.
[full story] | | Larry Smarr Profiled in Mizzou Magazine
In the cover story of its summer edition, entitled "He sees IT Coming," the magazine of the University of Missouri Alumni Association profiles CSE professor and Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr, an alumnus who is "behind the scenes, ahead of the pack" and helping "set high-tech's learning curve." Smarr received both his AB and MS from the university. Adobe Reader required for viewing story.
| | Serge Belongie named one of the "Ten Top Talents for the Future of San Diego Technology"
In its February 2003 cover story, T Sector magazine profiled San Diego's next-generation of young innovators, including CSE assistant professor Serge Belongie, who "two years ago at 26 became the youngest faculty member at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering." Belongie has also been named a UCSD Hellman Faculty Fellow for 2003-04. The purpose of the Hellman award is to substantially support the research and creative activities of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their work. Adobe Reader required for viewing story.
| |  Rajesh Gupta Assumes Qualcomm Chair in Embedded Microsystems
The Jacobs School of Engineering and Cal-(IT)2 have announced that CSE Professor Rajesh Gupta will be the first holder of the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Embedded Microsystems at UCSD. According to Jacobs School Dean Frieder Seible, "Professor Gupta is doing cutting-edge work in the field of embedded systems for wireless and other sectors. QUALCOMM's generosity in endowing this chair is an investment not only in Professor Gupta, but also in the many students, researchers and technologies that he will have a hand in shaping for years to come."
[full story] | |  Fran Berman Appointed to Endowed Chair in High Performance Computing
CSE Professor and San Diego Supercomputer Center Director Francine Berman has been appointed first holder of the Endowed Chair in High Performance Computing in the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. "Fran Berman is a pioneer in grid computing and a leader in the international effort to build a comprehensive information infrastructure to support 21st century research in science and engineering," said Jacobs School Dean Frieder Seible. "We are pleased to be able to honor Fran with this endowed chair appointment, and recognize her for her worldwide leadership in science and technology."
[full story] | | Mihir Bellare Receives RSA Conference Award for Mathematics
UCSD CSE Professor Mihir Bellare and UC Davis Professor Philip Rogaway are this year's recipients of the
RSA Conference Award for Mathematics, given in recognition for innovation and ongoing contributions
to the field of cryptography.
[full story] | |  Joseph Pasquale Receives Distinguished Teaching Award
CSE Professor Joseph Pasquale is one of the recipients of UCSD's 2003 Distinguished Teaching Award.
This award recognizes faculty who have shown creativity and extra effort in improving classes and
teaching effectiveness. This year's other recipient's are Academic Senate members David Luft (History), Valerie Hartouni (Communications), Andrew Kummel (Chemistry/Biochemistry) and Noel Weidner (Pathology), non-senate instructional faculty Stephen Lincoln (Sociology) and graduate student Jose de Pierola.
[full story] | | CSE Students 2003 Honors and Awards
As the 2003 academic year comes to close, several CSE graduate and undergraduate students have
received honors and awards for their accomplishments and work, including fellowships, papers accepted
at premier conferences and other awards.
[full story] | | Ron Graham Receives Prestigious Steele Prize
CSE Professor Ron Graham has been awarded the 2003 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Steele Prize for
Lifetime Achievement for his role as one of the principal architects of the rapid worldwide development of
the area of discrete mathematics. His talks and his writings have done much to shape the positive public
image of mathematical research in the USA, as well as to inspire young people to enter the subject.
[full story] | | Daniele Micciancio Wins Competitive Sloan Fellowship
CSE Assistant Professor Daniele Micciancio is one of two Jacobs School faculty to receive the prestigious
Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The award is intended to encourage scientists in the early stages of their careers who are deemed likely
to contribute to the advancement of knowledge.
[full story] | | Two CSE Faculty Honored as ACM Fellows
In mid-December, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) announced that two CSE professors were
named ACM Fellows. Sid Karin was recognized for his national leadership in integrating the academic
computer science and computational science communities as founding director of the San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational
Infrastructure (NPACI). Separately, George Varghese was recognized for the design of
efficient algorithms that have helped scale Internet implementations to gigabit speeds.
They join three other CSE faculty members as ACM Fellows: Ron Graham, Jeanne Ferrante and Fran Berman.
[full story] | | Charles Elkan Receives Technology Commercialization Award
CSE Professor Charles Elkan has received one of seven von Liebig Center funding awards for winter 2003.
Professor Elkan's project involves software that measures the quality of messages and documents
automatically, and other software that enables a web server to give faster responses to high-priority
users. The von Liebig Center provides funding to internal technology projects that have strong
commercial potential.
[full story] | | Bill Griswold Receives IBM and Microsoft Awards
CSE Professor Bill Griswold has received an award from Microsoft Research University Relations for his
proposal "Extensible Context-Aware Component Infrastructure for Highly Integrated, Heterogenous.NET
clients, as well as a 2003 funding award for his proposal Always-on Global Visualization of Crosscutting
with AspectBrowser. IBM Eclipse Innovation Grants are awarded to qualified faculty members and researchers
who use the Eclipse open source code base for teaching or research, or to actively promote the growth of
Eclipse user communities.
[full story] | | Fan Chung-Graham Honored as AAAS Fellow
CSE Professor Fan Chung Graham has been selected as an American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) Fellow by the University's Board of Regents in special recognition for her
illustrious career. The AAAS is an international society, composed of the world's leading
scientists, scholars, artists, business people, and public leaders.
| | Ingolf Krueger Profiled in Cal-IT(2) Researcher in Focus
Ingolf Krueger, one of CSE's newest faculty members, was profiled by Cal-IT(2) for his research
in component-based and service-oriented software and systems engineering. Ingolf was issued a
U.S. patent in June 2002 for a technique he co-developed to automatically generate a program from
information about the cooperation of individual components--an innovative technology for embedded systems.
[full story] | | CSE Students Compete in ACM World Finals
Three CSE students headed to Los Angeles in March to compete in the 27th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
sponsored by IBM. Having competed successfully in the Southern California semi-finals, Team UCSD Scissors (Nick Butko, John Rapp
and Alex Simma) was one of just 70 teams to advance from a field of thousands of teams representing over 100,000 students of
computing at more than 1,100 universities on six continents. Our team tied for 43rd out of
70 teams, solving 3 problems out of 10. It was a difficult year this year for the US teams, where no US team placed
in the top 12 to receive an award. Final results can be seen at
ACM-ICPC 2003 World Finals Results. Congratulations to Nick, John and Alex on their accomplishment. Thanks go out to
Mike Dini and the Dini Group for again providing support to send us to the finals.
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