Congratulations to University of California, San Diego computer science Ph.D. student Boris Babenko, winner of the 2010 Google Fellowship in Computer Vision.

CSE and CNS computer scientists set the record for data sorting at the "Sort Benchmark" competition when they sorted more than one terabyte of data in just 60 seconds.

Computer programming students from the University of California, San Diego were anything but “hackadaisical” when a week-long Web programming extravaganza – Yahoo! Hack U – came to campus.

UCSD CSE Student Brian McFee was a winner of the 2010 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. There were 6 winning teams out of 80 applicants and 21 finalists. 

 Computer scientists led by professor Stefan Savage from UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and professor Tadayoshi Kohno from the University of Washington will present the peer-reviewed paper “Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile” at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, CA on May 19, 2010. The paper "Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile" is an example of our experimental research theme. Our research was aimed at comprehensively assessing — and learning from — how much resilience a conventional automobile has against a digital attack mounted against its internal components by an attacker with access to the car's internal network. To help answer this question, we experimentally analyzed and evaluated the computers coordinated within the internal networks of a modern car and described the range of security issues we discovered in the process.

ACM PODS, the top database theory conference, awards every year a test-of-time award to a paper published 10 years prior, that had "the most impact in terms of research, methodology, or transfer to practice over the intervening decade". This year,CSE Professor Victor Vianu won the award for his paper "Type-checking for XML Transformers", co-authored with Tova Milo and Dan Suciu. The work pioneered automata-theoretic techniques to solve the type-checking problem, and more generally inspired a vast body of research and practice on reasoning about XML queries/transformations using automata-theoretic tools.

The ACM announced the winners of six prestigious awards for their innovations in computing technology that demonstrate the benefits of computational thinking for industry, education, and society. The winners included CSE Professor Mihir Bellare who (with Phillip Rogaway) won the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award , for their development of practice-oriented provable security, which has resulted in high quality, cost-effective cryptography, a key component for Internet security in an era of explosive growth in online transactions. CSE's Yoav Freund won this award in 2004.