After buying her own surfboard on Craigslist, Jasmine Simmons, a fourth-year UC San Diego CSE undergraduate, taught herself to surf. Now, she is using her board to ride waves and gather important ocean data through the Smartfin Project.
A collaboration between the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and the Surfrider Foundation, Smartfin analyzes data from near-coastal ocean regions, where people surf and play. Read More
Did social media spoil Avengers Endgame for you? A team of researchers from UC San Diego has developed an AI-based system that can flag spoilers in online reviews to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
Some websites allow people to manually flag their posts with spoiler ahead tags, but that doesn’t always happen. To remedy the problem, UC San Diego researchers developed SpoilerNet, an artificial intelligence tool powered by neural networks that automatically detect spoilers. Read More
Computer scientists at UC San Diego and the University of Illinois have developed an app that allows state and federal inspectors to detect devices that criminals install in gas pumps to steal consumer credit and debit card data. The devices, known as skimmers, use Bluetooth to transmit the data they steal.
The app, called Bluetana, detects the skimmers’ Bluetooth signatures, allowing inspectors to find the devices without opening the gas. Read More
In addition to practical experience, students receive rapid feedback on their work. Programming challenges are instantly graded, using test cases to catch common mistakes.
The MOOC also encourages students to adopt an integrated development environment (IDE) used by many professional programmers. This encourages them to move beyond academic programming, which may not be ideal in the corporate world. Instead, they are exposed to visual debugging, unit tests and other professional programming features rarely covered in university classes. Read More
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