CSE Celebrates 35 Years

Did You Know? While Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is celebrating 35 years, the Center for Networked Systems (CNS) is now half the department’s age. That represents nearly two decades of collaboration, of entrepreneurship, of tapping into the knowledge and vision of CSE and their world-renowned faculty.

CNS was launched in 2004 as an Organized Research Unit at UC San Diego and later became a center in CSE. The founding members included four international technology leaders – AT&T, Alcatel, Hewlett-Packard and Qualcomm Incorporated – who committed approximately $9 million over three years to CNS.

Today, the university-industry alliance is comprised of roughly 30 UC San Diego faculty members – each engaged in cutting-edge research that utilizes new techniques, evaluations, methodologies, and technologies to address emerging real-world problems in modern computing and data processing infrastructure. Qualcomm, who continues to be one of our valued industry partners, is joined by Cisco and Google. Collectively, CNS demonstrates expertise in a wide range of applied research areas, including most recently: data security, cloud computing, and Bluetooth low energy tracking.