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  • NSF Recognizes Michael Taylor with CAREER Award

    With the support of a multi-year funding award from the National Science Foundation, Assistant Professor Michael Taylor will work on the design of Stingray, a chip with many massively specialized, diverse kinds of processing cores, which is tuned for maximal energy efficiency in vision processing applications. The project explores these and other architectural challenges that arise in designing effective low power Stingray systems. The NSF's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program aims to support the activities of leading young academics who successfully integrate research with education.

  • CSE Computer Scientists Show Attacks on Voting Machines are Practical

    There is a long literature identifying vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines, but critics of these results argue that such attacks are unrealistic because the researchers had access to proprietary source code, design documents or extended physical access to the machine's being attacked. To rebut this argument, CSE's Stephen Checkoway and Hovav Shacham, along with colleagues from the University of Michigan and Princeton, have recently demonstrated techniques to completely subvert the behavior of the AVC Advantage voting machine. In addition to operating without source code or design documents, they also used Shacham's new "return-oriented programming" technique to overcome a security feature of the AVC that restricts the processor from executing instructions from its Read Only Memory. The resulting attack is embedded in an AVC voting cartridge that can be used by anyone with short-term access to the machine and does not require any technical know-how to use.

  • CSE Computer Science Faculty Developing Technology-Enhanced Classrooms

    CSE faculty member Beth Simon is helping to change the dynamics of todays classrooms by developing high-tech options to help engage students.

  • CSE Grad Students Create Cheat-Resistant 3D iPhone Game

    Three current and former UC San Diego computer science students created TowerMadness, the cheat-resistant 3D game which challenges players to repel alien onslaughts by constructing defensive towers in strategic locations. A multi-touch interface allows TowerMadness players to zoom in and around the visually-detailed 3D action.

  • CSE PhD Graduate Helps Computers Sleep Talk

    CSE PhD Graduate Yuvraj Agarwal has created a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that induces a new energy saving state known as "sleep talking." Normally PCs can be in either awake mode – where they consume power even if they are not being used – or in a low power sleep mode – where they save substantial power but are essentially inactive and unresponsive to network traffic.

  • Two CSE Faculty receive HP Innovation Awards

    Two computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego's Center for Networked Systems (CNS) are among 60 professors worldwide to receive awards as part of HP's 2009 Innovation Research Program, which is designed to create opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes around the world to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP. Amin Vahdat and Geoffrey Voelker, professors in UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, were granted awards as part of this year's competitive open call for proposals.

  • CSE Professor Rajesh Gupta named CalIT Associate Director

    Jacobs School computer science professor Rajesh Gupta has been appointed an Associate Director in the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). He says he hopes to do for the institute overall what he has been doing in his chosen field of wireless and embedded systems all along: reach out to industry.

  • CSE PhD Student Receives Mark Fulk Best Student Paper Award

    Congratulations to CSE Ph.D. student Samory Kpotufe who will receive the Mark Fulk Best Student Paper Award for his single-authored paper, "Escaping the Curse of Dimensionality with a Tree-Based Regressor" at this year's Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT). 

  • New Drugs Faster from Natural Compounds: a UC San Diego Breakthrough

    CSE Professor Pavel Pevzner and CSE researchers have invented computational tools to decode and rapidly determine whether natural compounds collected in oceans and forests are new—or if these pharmaceutically promising compounds have already been described and are therefore not patentable.

  • CSE Developing Low Cost Networks of Underwater Sensors

    In a paper presented at the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop in Rome, Italy, on May 25, CSE Graduate student  Bridget Benson and Associate Professor Ryan Kastner are working on digital signal processing challenges, Jacobs School undergraduates are hard at work on analog portions of the underwater communications project, including the transmitter power amplifier and receiver low noise amplifier.



by Dr. Radut.