CSE News
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CSE Research Scientist to take on MyHeartMap Challenge
CSE Research Scientist, Manuel Cebrian, and an international team of crowdsourcing experts, have taken on a public competition in an effort to create an effective location-based database of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in the Philadelphia area. This information could prove to be lifesaving, plus the team members will be able to use the challenge to test their theoretical research on mobilizing social networks and verification of information. The MyHeartMap Challenge began on January 31 and continues through March 13, 2012.
See full story at Calit2 News.
To become a member of the HeartCrowd team, register at http://scailab.media.mit.edu/heartcrowd/
For more information about the Challenge, visit http://www.med.upenn.edu/myheartmap/#.TygpPaVSSEZ
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Five UCSD papers accepted at premier cryptology conference
The 31st Eurocrypt conference (Cambridge in 2012) has accepted 41 papers, and of these papers, 5 have CSE authors including one of the top paper submissions. Congratulations Mihir Bellare, Rafael Dowsley, Daniele Micciancio (one of the top three papers), Stefano Tessaro, Sarah Meiklejohn, and recent alumnus Scott Yilek!
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UCSD E-crime work in Businessweek
The two-page spread explains how spammers make their living, based on research by CSE Professor Stefan Savage and colleagues at UC San Diego and at UC Berkeley. The article quotes E-crime researcher and Computing Innovation Fellow, Damon McCoy, as stating "They have better customer service than most real businesses" (McCoy recently accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University). The data for these visuals are derived from two efforts: one led by CSE Research Scientist Kirill Levchenko (spam value chain) and the other by CSE Ph.D. candidate Chris Kanich (spam revenue and demand).
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Computer simulations lead to discovers in the physics of rainbows
CSE Professor Henrik Wann Jensen and CSE alumnus Iman Sadeghi, researching the simulation of all rainbows found in nature, answered questions about the physics of rainbows. Rainbows such as twinned rainbows could not be explained in their simulations until they looked at air pressure and how it flattens a rain drop as it falls. This discovery led to the their ability to replicate a wide range of rainbows found in nature including an accurate simulation of twinned rainbows. See the full story: UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering News.
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Three CSE faculty named ACM Fellows
Last year, two CSE faculty were named ACM Fellows. Today, the Association for Computing Machinery announced their
2011 ACM Fellow class and this year three of the 46 inductees are UCSD faculty! These are: Keith Marzullo, recognized "for contributions to distributed systems and service to the computing community", Dean Tullsen, recognized "for contributions to the architecture of high-performance processors", and Amin Vahdat, recognized "for contributions to data center scalability and management". In his announcement, ACM President Alain Chesnais writes, "These international luminaries are responsible for solutions that are transforming our society for the better—in healthcare, communications, cybersecurity, robotics, commerce, industry, and entertainment." Marzullo, Tullsen and Vahdat join their ten CSE colleagues who have been previous recipients of the honor. 
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The DARPA Shredder Challenge’s Ultimate Puzzle
CSE Research Scientist, Manuel Cebrian and the UCSD Shredder Challenge Team is taking on the new DARPA Shredder Challenge’s ultimate puzzle. It involves piecing together roughly 10,000 pieces of different documents that have been shredded. “This is almost certainly the most challenging puzzle ever created,” said Cebrian. “A combinatorial number of possibilities makes the problem intractable by computer algorithms alone. A combination of crowd-sourcing and advanced computer-vision algorithms is necessary. This is exactly our approach.” See the full story: UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering News
Interested in participating or to learn more? Visit the UCSD Shredder Challenge Team online at http://shredder-challenge.ucsd.edu.), or contact the UCSD team at shredder-challenge@ucsd.edu.
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Professor Pevzner is a Pioneer of Algorithms for Modern DNA Sequencing Technology
CSE Professor Pavel Pevzner, in a collaborative effort, developed an algorithm that dramatically improves the performance of software used to sequence DNA produced from a single bacterial cell. Researchers are now able to assemble virtually complete genomes from DNA extracted from a single bacterial cell. Traditionally sequencing methods require at least a billion identical cells, grown in cultures in the lab. The study opens the door to the sequencing bacteria that cannot be cultured. See the full story: UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering News.
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Professor Kahng's Invention Saving Consumers Trillions of Watt Hours and Millions of Dollars
CSE and ECE Professor Andrew B. Kahng, co-invented technology in 2003 that significantly reduces the amount of energy wasted by chips in computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices. It recently passed the trillion watt-hour milestone in energy savings, according to the technology’s current licensee, Tela Innovations. See the full story: UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering News.
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CSE Researchers Develop Novel Approach to Sanitizing SSD's
CSE faculty Steve Swanson, and his research group, develop a new method to sanitize solid state drives by designing a procedure to bypass the flash translation layer (FTL) on SSDs and directly access the raw NAND flash chips to audit the success of any given sanitization technique. -
Girl’s Hat Day Program
Girl’s Hat Day program, funded by a grant from ViaSat, allowed 30 girls to compete in the celebrated sartorial competition at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club wearing fancy hats they built, driven by gears and electronics. This was part of the MyLab program at Calit2. The MyLab program launched in 2009 with the goal of bringing hands-on science and engineering experiences to the local community through outreach projects that typically blend art and technology. UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering News and Calit2 News.
