Jacobs School Computer Science and Engineering News: Top Stories

Jacobs School Ranked 9th in the World

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PDT

The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the 9th best in the world for engineering/technology and 15th in the world for computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Electrical Engineers Go Head to Head with Genius

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius – the music recommendation system in Apple’s iTunes – against two experimental music recommender systems. Genius appears to capture acoustic similarities among songs within the same playlist, the researchers found.

Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Boot Camp

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) held its first “Boot Camp” from August 10-22 at UC San Diego.

Computer scientist assisted in Netflix Prize

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Netflix today awarded a $1 million prize to BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos—the team that created the most accurate movie recommendation system. This is the final stage in the Netflix Prize, a worldwide data mining competition for which University of California, San Diego computer science professor Charles Elkan has served as a contest designer, consultant and judge for the past three years.

Scalable Energy Efficient Data Centers

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

A UC San Diego-led team of computer scientists and optical interconnection systems technologists in the Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN) is developing Scalable Energy Efficient Data Centers (SEED, for short). It consists of novel optical interconnection technologies for a multi-stage network topology. The goal is to build SEED as an integrated solution encompassing physical layer hardware, protocols and topologies — while offering tomorrow's data centers greater scalability, bisectional bandwidth, fault tolerance and energy efficiency.

A New Way to Track Network Delays

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Computer scientists have developed an inexpensive solution for diagnosing delays in data center networks as short as tens of millionths of seconds—delays that can lead to multi-million dollar losses for investment banks running automatic stock trading systems. Similar delays can delay parallel processing in high performance cluster computing applications run by Fortune 500 companies and universities. University of California, San Diego and Purdue University computer scientists presented this work on August 20, 2009 at SIGCOMM, the premier networking conference.

Scaling Layer 2 Data Center Networks to 100,000 Ports

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

University of California, San Diego computer scientists have created software that they hope will lead to data centers that logically function as single, plug-and-play networks that will scale to the massive scale of modern data center networks.

Computer Science Instruction in Associated Press

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Cell phones, clickers, the Internet, and in-class blogging systems all serve as tools for learning in Beth Simon’s introduction to computer science classes at UC San Diego. Simon’s approach to undergraduate lectures recently caught the interest of journalist Megan Scott from the Associated Press, who wrote about the ways in which college classrooms are going high-tech in order to engage students.

Computer Scientists Take Over Electronic Voting Machine

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The team of scientists from University of California, San Diego and the University of Michigan, and Princeton University employed “return-oriented programming” to force a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes.

Cheat-Resistant 3D iPhone Game

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Aliens are stealing your beloved sheep and you’ve got to stop them. That’s the premise for TowerMadness, a new 3D iPhone game that is one of the most cheat-resistant iPhone games available, according to its three developers, all with ties to the University of California, San Diego.