Jacobs School Computer Science and Engineering News: Top Stories

Undergrads Forge New Area of Bioinformatics

02 Jul 2008

Undergraduate students from the University of California San Diego have forged a new area of bioinformatics that may improve genomic and proteomic annotations and unlock a collection of stubborn biological mysteries. Their work will be published in the July 2008 issue of the journal Genome Research.

Computer Scientist Turns his Face into a Remote Control

25 Jun 2008

A computer science Ph.D. student can turn his face into a remote control that speeds and slows video playback. The proof-of-concept demonstration is part of a larger project to use automated facial expression recognition to make robots more effective teachers.

Jacobs School Ring Ceremony 2008

19 Jun 2008

More than 350 graduating seniors from the Jacobs School participated in the annual Ring Ceremony on Saturday, June 14.

UCSD Computer Science Undergraduates Showcase Multiplayer Online Games at Calit2

10 Jun 2008

An SRO crowd of more than 250 students packed into the Calit2 Auditorium at UCSD to watch and play networked, multiplayer 3-D video games designed from scratch by four teams of computer-science students.

UC San Diego Unveils Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics

29 May 2008

Cymer Inc. has provided major sponsorship of a novel educational and research program at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering designed to train engineers to improve the performance of wide variety of industrial products and processes. The new Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics (CCSD), which will educate many of the finest students in the country in the field of controls, is designed to put UC San Diego’s Jacobs School on the fast track to industry partnerships in numerous high tech arenas.

Junkyard Derby

20 May 2008

It's Junkyard Derby week at UC San Diego. The junkyard opens on Wednesday night, May 21 at 7:30 pm, and the races start on Friday at 11:30 AM.

Creating Faster Integrated Circuits by Slowing Light

22 Apr 2008

Two UCSD research groups have merged two previously unrelated areas of cutting-edge research in optics – slow light and Anderson localization – and have shown in a paper published in the journal Nature Photonics that structures being considered as prime building blocks for nanophotonic integrated circuits are very susceptible to the effects of disorder, including Anderson localization.

Digital Fog Machine Improves Computer Graphics

14 Apr 2008

UC San Diego computer scientists have cut the computational cost required to make 3-D images of fog pierced by realistic beams of light and other sophisticated computer generated graphics. The researchers presented their findings this week at Europe’s premier computer graphics conference, Eurographics 2008 in Crete, Greece.

Researchers Eliminate Drug Discovery Bottleneck

31 Mar 2008

Determining the structure of unknown natural compounds is a slow and expensive part of drug screening and development – but this may now change thanks to a new combination of experimental and computational protocols developed at the University of California, San Diego and presented at RECOMB 2008 (Research in Computational Molecular Biology) on March 31 in Singapore.

US News Ups Ranking of Jacobs School

27 Mar 2008

UC San Diego again was one of only a handful of universities to have both an engineering school and a medical school both ranked in the top 15 by US News annual ranking of graduate programs at colleges and universities.