UCSD CSE Faculty Analyzes Map of Human Variation in Collaboration with National Library of Medicine Feature CSE professor Eleazar Eskin and his graduate students, along with researchers at the International Computer Science Institute, have used a software algorithm to quickly break down large amounts of genetic information--from genotypes to happlotypes--in an attempt to more accurately study genetic differences. The research was conducted on the biotech repository of the National Center of Biotechnology Information (NCBI), and effectively resulted in the dubling of the repository's data. "The speed with which we are able to compute the entire dbSNP database of genotypes is a combination of the speed of our algorithm and the computational resources that allowed us to do it so quickly," explained Eskin. "We have demonstrated that haplotype phasing can be done routinely every time there is a new releese of data deposited in the NCBI database." More information about these research findings can be found here. Upcoming Events CSE Building Dedication The Computer Science & Engineering Building dedication was a success! Along with the building's formal opening, the Jacobs School Commemorative Parver Program and Bear, the 16th commissioned sculpture for the UCSD Stuart Collection, were also unveiled. For a recap of all the activities, please click here; our brochure has more information about the department. CSE's Database Group Publishes Six Sigmod/Pods Papers A record six papers authored by members of the Database group were presented at ACM Sigmod/Pods 2005, the top conference in the database area. To find out more about the research presented at this preeminent conference, click here. VLSI Researchers Recieve ICCD's Best Paper Award Andrew Kahngg, his post-doc Bao Liu, and Ph.D candidate Qinke Wang (pictured), were awarded the Best Paper Award at this year's ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) for their paper "Supply Voltage Degradation Aware Analytical Placement". The Award was one of five selected from a pool of 310 submissions. UCSD Hosts Student Programming Contest Forty-four students participated in this year's fall 2005 Programming Contest. Student were given five hours to solve seven traditional algorithmic problems. Top honors went to Renshan Wang, who was the only student to successfully solve all seven problems! Nakul Verma, Nitay Joffe, Boris Babenko, and Thomas Petrillo each solved five problems. The contest served as UCSD's qualifying tournament for the ACM Southern California Programming Contest. The problems, solutions, pictures, and detailed results can be found here . spacer UCSD Hosts Student Programming Contest CSE Professor Collaborates on Wireless Research Project CSE professor Tajana Simunic Rosing is taking part in a wireless sensor project to build better tools for managing resources in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. The research is in conjuction with and will aid HPWREN, an NSF-funded project whose expressed goal is to create and evaluate a high-performance, wide-area, wireless network in San Die go, Riverside, and Imperial counties. Simunic Rosing is an expert in resource management of embedded wireless systems, and joined CSE in 2004 after six years at Hewlett Packard. HPWREN (High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network) is a multi-institutional UC San Diego research program. The full article resides here. CSE Grad Student Writes Synchronization Program Frustrated by keeping track of multiple versions of a file across several machines, Ph.D. candidate James Anderson created a program that allows a user to save a file on one machine and have it updated automatically on other devices, including desktop PCs, laptops, personal digital assistants, or even third-generation cell phones. His work was funded by Gogle's Summer of Code, an effort to promote open-source software by motivating students to create new code for open-source access. Transparent Synchronization, or Tsync, keeps a set of files consistent across many machines, even if those devices involve differing degrees of connectivity and availability. "It does so while requiring minimal effort from the user," added Anderson. "At the same time it maintains security, robustness to failure, and fast performance." The full article may be found here. Intel Donation Fosters Medded Systems Education Intel has donated microprocessor development kits valued at $193,638 to UCSD's Computer Science and Engineering department. The kits are full, high-end embedded systems platforms, and can be used for any embedded processing applications. They will equip CSE research and training labs, initially for a senior-level project course on wireless multimedia embedded systems. The donation was made in response to a grant written by CSE professors Rajesh Gupta and Tajana Simunic Rosing. To read the full Jacobs School press release, click here. Source: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/ Misspellings added and converted to text for CSE 130 class by Wiliam Mathews (wgmatthews@cs.ucsd.edu)