| Frontiers of Technology |  CSE Faculty Analyzes Map of Human Variation in Collaboration with National Library of Medicine
CSE professor Eleazar Eskin and his graduate students, along with researchers at the International
Computer Science Institute, have used a software algorithm to quickly break down large amounts of
genetic information--from genotypes to haplotypes--in an attempt to more accurately study genetic
differences. The research was conducted on the biotech repository of the National Center of
Biotechnology Information (NCBI), and effectively resulted in the doubling of the repository's
data. More information about these research findings can be found
here.
|  |  CSE Researcher Finds Chromosomal Links between Species
CSE's Pavel Pezvner joined with 24 scientists to analyze the last 100 million years of
mammal evolution. They compared the genomes of humans to cats, dogs, mice, rats,
pigs, cows and horses, using a program developed by Harris A. Lewin and his colleagues
at the University of Illinois, called the Evolution Highway. In the mid-1990's, Dr.
Pevzner and Sridhar Hannenhalli of the University of Pennsylvania invented a fast method for
comparing chromosomes from two different species and determining the fewest number of
rearrangements that separate them. To read more
click here.
| |  CSE Researchers Unveil RealityFlythrough Technology
CSE Professor Bill Griswold and Ph.D. candidate Neil McCurdy recently unveiled a new form of
situational awareness where the viewer can navigate an integrated, interactive environment as
if it were a video game. This new technique constructs a 3D virtual environment dynamically out
of multiple live video streams. Though being currently tested for security and emergency response
purposes, the technology has potential consumer uses such as virtual tourism or pre-drive instructions
where you can 'fly' through the drive before doing it. Click here to read
the full Jacobs School article.
| |  UCSD Professors' Evolutionary Theory Validated
Comparing the genomes of humans and seven other mammals, an international team
of evolutionary sleuths has confirmed a theory put forward two years ago by UCSD
scientists Pavel Pevzner and Glenn Tessler: that fragile regions exist in the human
genome that break over and over again in the course of evolution. To read the full Jacobs
School press release, click
here.
[full story] | | | CSE Department News |  Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
CSE wrapped up the fall quarter by holding its annual holiday party on the last day of classes. There was terrific food (both
catered and home-made, including an amazing tiramisu), holiday-themed music, and lots of socializing. In keeping with CSE
tradition, faculty, staff, and grad students also wrote and performed skits that were long on laughs and short of formal stage
direction. Pictures of the festivities can be found here.
| |  Music 87 Puts CSE on Island Time
Introduction to the Ukulele, taught by CSE professor and Departmental Chair Keith Marzullo, performed an end-of-the-quarter
Kanikapila, or traditional Hawaiian music festival. The concert was a culmination of the ukulele skills students learned this
fall while receiving elective course credit in this freshman seminar. The course covered tuning, various chords and strums,
and several corny songs! Congratulations to all the musicians.
| |  CSE Building Dedication
The Computer Science & Engineering Building dedication was a success! Along with the building's formal opening, the
Jacobs School Commemorative Parver Program and Bear, the 16th commissioned sculpture for the UCSD Stuart Collection,
were also unveiled. For a recap of all the activities, please click here;
our brochure has more information about the department.
| |  UCSD Hosts Student Programming Contest
Forty-four students participated in this year's fall 2005 Programming Contest. Student were given five hours to solve seven
traditional algorithmic problems. Top honors went to Renshan Wang, who was the only student to successfully solve all
seven problems! Nakul Verma, Nitay Joffe, Boris Babenko, and Thomas Petrillo each solved five problems. The contest served
as UCSD's qualifying tournament for the ACM Southern California Programming Contest. The problems, solutions, pictures,
and detailed results can be found
here .
| |  CNS Research Review, July 25-26, 2005
The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) will host member company researchers to review seven current projects, and to discuss
and initiate innovative new projects in Networked Systems. The research review will take place Monday, July 25 and Tuesday,
July 26, 2005 on the UCSD Campus. For additional information click here to go to the
CNS website.
| |  CSE Staff Member, David Bareno is Hot, Hot, Hot!!!
David Bareno, CSE staff member ate 40 jalapenos in five minutes at the San Diego County Fair July 2, 2005!!! With a rapidity
that amazed his fellow contestants, he destroyed the second place contender who only ate 19. The all time record stands at 53
jalapenos in 5 minutes. When he was asked how he felt immediately after the fair's "hottest" contest, David told the
master of ceremonies that he couldn't say anything clean enough to quote. He then downed two doses of Pepto-Bismol, which
the fair provided as a gift to the prize-winner.
Click here to read the article
in the North County Times.
| |  Computer Science Engineering Building Dedication
Join us on Friday, September 30, 2005 as we dedicate the new Computer Science & Engineering Building
and unveil the Jacobs School Legacy Walk Commemorative Paver Program and Bear, the 16th commissioned
sculpture of the UCSD Stuart Collection. Tours of the building and reception follow formal program.
Click here to view the full announcement.
| |  The COSMOS in CSE
18 of California's most talented and motivated high school students from the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) program are visiting CSE to participate in an intensive four-week program in The Science of Computing. Classes and labs are team taught by UCSD professors, graduate students, and high school teachers working as UCSD fellows. This is the first year that UCSD has joined other UC campus' including Irvine, Davis and Santa Cruz in this unique out reach program. Click here to read more.
| |  CSE Introduces new Research Training in Bioinformatics course
CSE professor Eleazar Eskin's new course, "Research Training in Bioinformatics" is designed for students majoring in bioinformatics; as part of the joint degree program offered by CSE, Biology, Chemistry and Bioengineering departments at UCSD. The course focuses on the basics of
reading and understanding research papers, as well as a writing component about authoring articles for scientific journals. Students who are successful in having their project published are eligible
to receive the Calit2 Undergraduate Bioinformatics Scholar Award which will cover the expense of
sending each published undergrad to the scientific meeting where his or her research is presented.
CSE undergraduate Robin Friedman was one of the first to receive this honor for having his paper published in the Proceedings of Advances in NIPS. To read the full Jacobs School release, click here.
| | Faculty Members Brief Industry Partners at CNS Research Review
On Jan. 19 and 20, CSE's Center for Networked Systems (CNS) held its first Research Review since the center's creation
last summer, with representatives from CNS's five member companies hearing presentations on the seven projects now underway
in areas ranging from cybersecurity to grid architecture. Click here to read the full
Jacobs School Press Release.
| |  CSE Professors Participate in Peer-to-Peer Remote Learning Program
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) professors William Griswold and
Geoff Voelker organized UCSDs participation in a graduate student
course on Information Technology & Public Policy using a P2P architecture and IP Multicast network. 84 students 'attended'
this course from four universities on the west coast including UCSD, University of Washington (UW), UC Berkeley, and Microsoft
Research. The university classrooms were linked to each other and to Microsoft in Redmond, WA, via Internet2 networking, with
support from Microsoft's ConferenceXP software platform, which is the result of a collaborative research effort between Microsoft
Research and a number of universities. To read the Jacobs School press release,
click here.
| | | UCSD & Jacobs School News |  Calit2 Opens New Building
Calit2, UCSD's division of the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology, opened their new building on Friday, October 28, 2005.
Affiliated with the Jacobs School of Engineering, the Institute is a multidisciplinary research hub
that fosters innovation by professors from all over UCSD, including the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering. More information about the ceremony is available
here.
| |  CNS Names New Director
CSE's Amin Vahdat has been named the new director of the
Center for Networked Systems. An Associate Professor at CSE, Vahdat becomes
CNS' second director since its establishment in July of 2004. Vahdat takes the reins from founding director
Andrew Chien, who left to join Intel Corporation as Director of Research. The full press release can be found
here.
| |  Digital Nursing Project Brings Technology to Elder Care
CSE's Bill Griswold, along with a team of 11 undergrads, recently visited St. Paul's Senior Homes & Services
to unveil a piece of software they designed to improve patient information management. The tool tracks changes in
the condition of each patient and negates the need for a hand-written log book that can be messy, illegible, and
error-prone. The Digital Nursing Project is part of UCSD's Teams in Engineeering Services (TIES), a program that
creates technology solutions for non-profits. More information about TIES and its Digital Nursing program can be
found
here.
| |  CSE Participates in County Disaster Drill
CSE researchers Bill Griswold, Barry Demchak, and Neil McCurdy worked alongside fire, police, hazardous materials,
and SWAT officials to test their first-responder technology at a disaster drill organized by San Diego's
Metropolitan Medical Strike Team (MMST). Among the tools tested was Griswold's WIISARD, a communications
infrastructure and software system, and Command Center, a software designed by Barry Demchak. Also deployed was
RealityFlyThrough, a program co-developed by Griswold and McCurdy that allows an early arriver to capture images
and video using a helmet-mounted camera. For more information about the drill, click
here.
| | | Industry Happenings |  Intel Donation Fosters Embedded Systems Education
Intel has donated microprocessor development kits valued at $193,638 to UCSD's Computer Science and Engineering
department. The kits are full, high-end embedded systems platforms, and can be used for any embedded processing
applications. They will equip CSE research and training labs, initially for a senior-level project course on wireless
multimedia embedded systems. The donation was made in response to a grant written by CSE professors Rajesh Gupta and
Tajana Simunic Rosing. To read the full Jacobs School press release, click
here.
| |  von Liebig Center Funds CSE Researcher
CSE Professor Bill Griswold received a grant from UCSD's William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement to
develop his mobile phone application know as ActiveCity. To read the full Jacobs School press release, click
here.
| |  Cisco Acquires Start up Founded by CSE Researchers
The start up company co-founded by CSE professor George Varghese and graduate student Sumeet Singh, NetSift, Inc. has agreed to be acquired by Cisco Systems for roughly $30 million in cash and options. NetSift was founded in June 2004 based on patented research and develops content-processing technology focused on high-speed networking and security. Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. To read more click here.
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| | | Faculty and Student Accomplishments |  CSE Student Selected as CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Finalist
Congratulations to CSE's Sarah Aerni, who was chosen as one of five female finalists for the Computing Research
Association's annual awards! Sarah's research interest lies in Bioinformatics, particularly in the exploration
and creation of tools to analyze the human genome and its components. Currently, she's working with CSE's
Ben Raphael and Bradley Messmer of UCSD's Moores Cancer Center to create methods to study Chronic Lymphocytic
Leukemia (CLL). Using computational analysis on various patient DNA sequences, Sarah hopes to develop tools that
will predict disease prognosis for individual patients, or possibly determine if this disease is triggered by
an antigen (as has been found in other cancers). The awards will be presented at a to-be-determined research
conference in 2006. The official announcement
can be found on CRA's website. The Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Award program recognizes undergraduate students
from US or Canadian universities and colleges who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.
Nominations are made from departmental chairs or faculty members.
| |  CSE's Database Group Publishes Six Sigmod/Pods Papers
A record six papers authored by members of the Database group were presented at ACM Sigmod/Pods 2005, the top
conference in the database area. To find out more about the research presented at this preeminent
conference, click here.
| |  VLSI Researchers Receive ICCD's Best Paper Award
Andrew Kahng, his post-doc Bao Liu, and Ph.D candidate Qinke Wang (pictured), were awarded the Best Paper Award at this
year's ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) for their paper
"Supply Voltage Degradation Aware Analytical Placement".
The Award was one of five selected from a pool of 310 submissions.
| |  CSE Professor Collaborates on Wireless Research Project
CSE professor Tajana Simunic Rosing is taking part in a wireless sensor project to build better tools for managing
resources in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. The research is in conjuction with and will aid HPWREN, an
NSF-funded project whose expressed goal is to create and evaluate a high-performance, wide-area, wireless network
in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties. Simunic Rosing is an expert in resource management of embedded
wireless systems, and joined CSE in 2004 after six years at Hewlett Packard. HPWREN (High Performance Wireless Research
and Education Network) is a multi-institutional UC San Diego research program. The full article resides
here.
| |  CSE Grad Student Writes Synchronization Program
Frustrated by keeping track of multiple versions of a file across several machines, Ph.D.
candidate James Anderson created a program that allows a user to save a file on one machine and have it updated
automatically on other devices, including desktop PCs, laptops, personal digital assistants, or even third-generation
cell phones. His work was funded by Google's Summer of Code, an effort to promote open-source software by motivating
students to create new code for open-source access. Transparent Synchronization, or Tsync, keeps a set of files consistent
across many machines, even if those devices involve differing degrees of connectivity and availability. "It does so
while requiring minimal effort from the user," added Anderson. "At the same time it maintains security,
robustness to failure, and fast performance." The full article may be found
here.
| |  CSE Professor's Lab Authors Four SIGGRAPH Papers
The Association for Computing Machinery's 2005 SIGGRAPH COnference accepted four papers from the lab of CSE professor
Henrik Wann Jensen. SIGGRAPH is the leading conference for computer graphics research. You can read about the research
that was presented by Jensen's lab
here.
| |  CSE Professor co-authors paper in Science
CSE faculty member Eleazar Eskin teamed with biologists from Perlegen Sciences, Inc., to map key genetic signposts across
three human populations. Their study - published in the Feb. 18 issue of Science - could make widely accessible the
analysis of human variation based on whole-genome data, and speed efforts to pinpoint DNA variations that are associated
with disease or with how patients respond differently to drugs. To read the full text article in Science, click
here.
| |  Serge Belongie Receives CAREER Grant from NSF
The National Science Foundation awarded CSE's Assistant Professor Serge Belongie a five year grant for
his work in the burgeoning field of computer vision. The funding agency awards five-year Faculty Early
Career Development (CAREER) grants to support research by young faculty members early in their careers.
Full Article.
| |  CSE Undergrad Receives Student Leadership Award
Computer science major Lindsey Desalvo was honored with the Jacobs School 2005 Engineering Student Leadership awards on June 12, 2005. She was recognized for her outstanding service to her peers and the UCSD community. She has served as president of the CALPIRG UCSD student chapter, and helped raise money for the San Diego Rescue Mission, supported efforts to lower the levels of mercury pollution, and helped highlight the soaring cost of textbooks. Click here to read the full Jacobs School announcement.
| |  Team Rock Competes in China
Three UCSD CSE students competed in the World Finals of
the 29th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest,
held in Shanghai, China. William Matthews, Michael Vrable, and Kevin
Lee placed 42nd out of 78 teams from around the world. The World
Finals contest was extremely competitive this year, with only one US
university finishing in the top 30. UCSD CSE was the 5th ranked US
team. Congratulations William, Michael, and Kevin! The UCSD team was sponsored by Mike Dini of
The Dini Group.
| |  Tracking PCs anywhere on the Net
CSE graduate student Tadayoshi Kohno introduces the notion of remote
physical device fingerprinting... without the fingerprinted device's known cooperation. Primary author Yoshi Kohno is a PhD student at the UCSD Computer Science and
Engineering department, working in collaboration with Andre Broido and kc Claffy at the
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) based at the San Diego
Supercomputer Center. The paper,
Remote
physical device fingerprinting is to be presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 8-11, 2005.
Related links: CNet News.com article.
| |  CSE Professor Serge Belongie Receives 2005 Sloan Fellowship
Congratulations to CSE faculty Serge Belongie for receiving recognition by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Sloan Research
Fellowships are awarded annually and designed to identify, new academic faculty that show outstanding promise in making
fundamental contributions to new knowledge. Serge joins previous CSE Sloan award recipients, Henrik Jensen, Stefan Savage,
Amin Vahdat, Daniele Micciancio and Russell Impagliazzo.
Related links: Research Fellowship Award Winners of 2005.
| |  CSE Robin Friedman Receives Bioinformatics Award
CSE undergraduate Robin Friedman, was one of the first two recipients of the CalIT2 Undergraduate Bioinformatics Scholar Awards. The Calit2 Undergraduate Bioinformatics Scholar Award will be presented periodically to each undergrad publishing a bioinformatics research paper. Robin was cited for his research on protein sequence analysis, and J. Bradley Kohlenberg from the Chemistry department was honored for research on integrating human genetic and physical maps. To read the full Jacobs School press release, click here.
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