CSE News
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Cellphone Chips in the Data Center
Jason Mars and Lingjia Tang have been working with Robert Hundt from Google. Their research, to be presented this year at ISCA, shows that Google can save a tremendous amount of money by pairing specific software tasks with specific types of processors. They found that if Google were to more carefully match applications with chips, it could improve the speed of its entire operation by as much as 15 percent.
Wired: Why Even Google Will Embrace Cellphone Chips in the Data Center
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CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
CSE Student Marjori Pomarole was named a 2013 finalist for the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. This award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.
Congratulations Marjori!
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Sarah Esper and Stephen Foster's Research and Release of "CodeSpells"
UCSD graduate students Sarah Esper and Stephen Foster, advised by Bill Griswold, have released the beta version of CodeSpells. A videogame designed to teach the art of programming to younger audiences, the player in CodeSpells is a magician who has lost their memory and must remember their spells (programs) and learn to make and execute new ones. Their research is detailed in their recent paper "On the Nature of Fires and How to Spark Them When You're Not There".
Related Links:
Wired: Experimental Videogame Teaches Kids How to Program Java
KPBS video: Students Learning Programming Like Magic
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Rick Ord and Kevin Webb Receive Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Awards
Rick Ord has been selected by the Committee on Senate Awards as a recipient of 2012/13 Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Members to be confirmed by the representative assembly later in April.For the department, the only other news that matches in celebration is Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award for Graduate Students awarded to our Kevin Webb who serves as Master TA for the department.
"Congratulations and congratulations to us all for recognizing the gems in our midst!" Rajesh Gupta -
Improving Efficiency of Cloud Computing Infrastructure
Lingjia Tang and Jason Mars have developed a novel approach that allows the massive infrastructure powering cloud computing to run more efficiently. The new approach can make these warehouse-scale computers run as much as 15 to 20 percent more efficiently. This novel model has already been applied at Google. -
Nuno Bandeira Selected to Receive Sloan Research Fellowship
Bandeira is one of four UC San Diego assistant professors selected to receive a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2013 (from among 126 recipients across the U.S. and Canada). “The university has allowed me to push forward and help develop a novel paradigm that is changing the way that researchers interpret and learn from mass spectrometry,” said Bandeira. “My hope is that the Sloan Research Fellowship will make more scientists aware of the work we are doing, and how researchers around the world can take advantage of the new algorithms, tools and the repository we are building.” -
Andrew Kahng Named ACM Fellow
CSE's Professor Andrew Kahng has been named one of 52 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery for 2012.He was recognized for “contributions to physical design automation and to design for manufacturability of microelectronic systems.” He is a pioneer in the physical design of integrated circuits, as well as in the field known today as integrated-circuit design for manufacturability.
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Victor Vianu Elected as an AAAS Fellow
Professor Vianu will be officially recognized February 16, 2013 as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. The news will be officially announced this week in the journal Science. Victor's research interests are in database systems and theory. Most recently he has been focusing on verification of database-driven systems, an area at the boundary of databases and computer-aided verification. His current research focuses on automatic verification of interactive data-driven Web services and business processes. He is also interested in the theory of query languages and computational logic. -
Team Airplane Placed 10th in the World when Competing in the IEEEXtreme Programming Competition 6.0
Congratulations to CSE undergraduates Lewis Anderson, Zack Grannan and MAE undergraduate Tim Wheeler! Lewis, Zack and Tim, also known as "Team Airplane", competed against approximately 2000 other teams and ranked 10th in the world, 2nd in the United States and 1st in the IEEE Region 6. The global IEEEXtreme 24-hour programming competition recognizes some of the world's top up-and-coming programmers. Lewis, Zack and Tim are members of the UCSD Autonomous Airplane Team. Lewis was the software leader for two years in a row, Zack is the current software leader and Tim is the project manager for the second year in a row. -
CSE Students Develop Crowdsourcing for iPhone App
Three CSE students have produced a new mobile app that lets iPhone users determine the best time to cross the border into the U.S. from Mexico or Canada. It builds on an existing Android app from Calit2, but for the first time, it allows motorists to provide eyewitness accounts of how long it takes them to cross the border. The 'crowdsourced' iReport information is then made instantly available to other motorists by meshing it with existing survey data provided by border agents on wait times at a border crossing. The new feature aims to improve the accuracy of wait times that can now be accessed by both Android and iOS phones (as well as on the Web). Calit2 staff researcher Ganz Chockalingam oversaw the team of CSE undergraduates Matthew Davis, Rodrigo Rallo and graduate student Tarfah Alrashed.
For the full story: Calit2 Newsroom
