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New Faculty Join CNS
CNS now counts 22 faculty members following the addition of CSE assistant professors Deian Stefan and Aaron Schulman to their ranks. Both work in the systems area. |
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The Graduate Behind Pokémon GO
Last October, CNS organized a lecture on campus by CSE alumnus Edward Wu (B.S. ’04), senior product manager at Niantic, the Google spinoff behind the mobile phone-based game craze, Pokémon GO. His former professor, Geoffrey Voelker, invited Wu to speak at CNS’s Fall 2016 Research Review. Wu got his first taste for programming computer games in Voelker’s CSE 125 course. Watch Wu’s talk, or read about it (click on Read More). |
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Alum Wins Dahl-Nygaard
CSE alumnus Ross Tate (Ph.D. ‘12), who did his doctorate under CNS and CSE Prof. Sorin Lerner, is one of two winners of the Dahl-Nygaard Prizes for 2017. Now a professor of computer science at Cornell University, Tate was cited for his “fundamental contributions to type systems with applications to object-oriented languages.” |
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Photo Finish to Fall Research Review
Last October, CNS held its Fall 2016 Research Review. To see photos of the two-day meeting, visit the CNS image gallery or click on Read More to download images from our Flickr photostream. |
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Student Attends Grace Hopper on CNS Award
Second-year CSE M.S. student Mansi Malik received a CNS award to attend the 2016 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing last October. She was one of 35 UC San Diego students at the meeting in Houston, TX. “It was an honor to represent both CNS and Graduate Women in Computing,” said Malik. |
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Scholar Meets the ‘Other’ Turing
The first student recipient of CNS’s Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship, Valeria Gonzalez (pictured at left), attended a talk by Sir Dermot Turing, the geneticist-turned-lawyer and nephew of computer science pioneer Alan Turing. Together with CNS administrator Jennifer Folkestad and former CNS staffer Kathy Krane, Gonzalez met with Sir Dermot after his talk. |
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