April 13, 2017
April 13, 2017 —
The Qualcomm Institute (QI) at UC San Diego has launched its fifth annual invitation to faculty and students to propose residencies culminating in performances or presentations of works and research in visual arts, music, theatre and dance, as well as technology disciplines. The Call for Proposals was published online April 10 on the website of QI’s Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS).
March 30, 2017
March 30, 2017 —
At the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) this week in Boston, Mass., a team of researchers including UC San Diego computer scientist George Porter accepted an award for the most influential paper among those presented a decade ago at the annual conference. The 2017 NSDI Test of Time Award was presented during a luncheon on March 26 to Porter and his co-authors now at Brown University and UC Berkeley.
March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017 —
INRIA, the French national institute for computer science and applied mathematics, has created a new International Chair and appointed UC San Diego computer engineer Rajesh Gupta to the part-time position. Gupta will spend up to a year in France spread over the five-year appointment, starting this summer.
March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017 —
Silent Music, an exhibition by Canadian sound artist Robin Minard, opens on Thursday, April 6 and runs through June 9 in the gallery@calit2 of the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego. The installation mixes perceptions of nature and technology in quite public spaces. The opening includes a talk by the artist, panel discussion and reception open to the public.
March 21, 2017
March 21, 2017 —
A team of current and former students at UC San Diego in computer science, economics and aerospace engineering have launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to launch the Firefly Smart Mirror, the first voice-controlled, tablet-based smart mirror.
March 21, 2017
March 21, 2017 —
CNS postdoctoral researcher Alper Sinan Akyurek and CSE professor Tajana Rosing developed an algorithm for controlling batteries that can decrease the utility cost of an actual building by up to 50 percent compared to a building powered without the use of batteries.
March 21, 2017
March 21, 2017 —
Graduate students at the University of California San Diego will stage an original work and performance on Thursday, March 23, in the Qualcomm Institute on the university campus. Their interdisciplinary work, “The Burden of Selfhood”, will explore the themes of feminism, identity and technology.
March 7, 2017
March 7, 2017 —
University of California San Diego professor Bhaskar Rao will receive the 2016 Technical Achievement Award this week from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). The formal ceremony takes place in New Orleans during the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2017).
March 7, 2017
March 7, 2017 —
The Center for Networked Systems (CNS) at the University of California San Diego now has 22 faculty members following the addition of two new professors to its ranks. Both newcomers – Deian Stefan and Aaron Schulman – joined the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) faculty as assistant professors recently, with Stefan starting to teach last fall, and Schulman this winter.
February 28, 2017
February 28, 2017 —
Description UC San Diego is creating four courses in Data Science as part of a new MicroMasters® program offered via the edX nonprofit online learning destination. Instructors from the Computer Science and Engineering department are leading the effort, and video modules for the courses are being produced in the HD Studio of the Qualcomm Institute.
