HP's Stanley Williams to discuss nanoscale computing at UCSC's Silicon Valley Center on October 25

Monday, October 15, 2007
R. Stanley Williams, a senior fellow at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and founding director of HP's Quantum Science Research group, will discuss nanoscale computing in a free public lecture on Thursday, October 25, hosted by UC Santa Cruz's Baskin School of Engineering and Silicon Valley Center. Williams's talk, titled "Computing at the nanoscale will employ different physics and logic operations," will take place at 4 p.m. in the World Room, Building 943, NASA Ames Research Center.
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UCSC awarded $5 million grant for genome research

Tuesday, October 9, 2007
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) today announced a $5 million grant to the University of California, Santa Cruz, as part of a four-year project to build a "parts list" of biologically functional elements in the human genome. Under the grant, a team led by James Kent, associate research scientist at UCSC's Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE), will establish a Data Coordination Center for the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project.
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Baskin School of Engineering will showcase faculty research projects on Friday, October 12

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Research Review Day at UC Santa Cruz's Baskin School of Engineering will showcase groundbreaking research by the engineering school's faculty and graduate students. The all-day event on Friday, October 12--part of the celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Baskin School of Engineering--also features a keynote address by James Hollenhorst of Agilent Laboratories.
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VLDB 2007 Best Paper Awards

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Computer Science Assistant Professor Neoklis "Alkis" Polyzotis reported that a paper he coauthored with his students received the runner-up for best-paper award at the VLDB 2007 conference. Their paper, "Depth Estimation for Ranking Query Optimization," written by Karl Schnaitter, Joshua Spiegel, and Neoklis Polyzotis, was runner-up for best paper.
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Prof. Jim Whitehead selected as one of four Distinguished Paper Award winners

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Associate Professor Jim Whitehead, reported that a joint paper, "Predicting Faults from Cached History" was selected as one of four Distinguished Paper Award winners at the recent International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007). Authors are Sung Kim, Thomas Zimmermann, Jim Whitehead, and Andreas Zeller.
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UCSC receives $120,000 HP Technology for Teaching leadership grant

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Hewlett-Packard has selected the University of California, Santa Cruz, as one of 10 recipients of its 2007 Technology for Teaching Leadership grants. The award, valued at over $120,000, includes 42 tablet computers, additional hardware, and $15,000.
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New program color-codes text in Wikipedia entries to indicate trustworthiness

Thursday, August 2, 2007
The online reference site Wikipedia enjoys immense popularity despite nagging doubts about the reliability of entries written by its all-volunteer team. A new program developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, aims to help with the problem by color-coding an entry's individual phrases based on contributors' past performance.
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Silicon chip beams light through a liquid-core waveguide to detect one particle at a time

Monday, July 2, 2007
By guiding light through liquid-filled channels smaller than a human hair, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Brigham Young University have succeeded in building a silicon chip that can detect tiny particles one at a time. The research, published online this week in the journal Lab on a Chip, could revolutionize the fields of medical and environmental sampling by making analyses sensitive, portable, and fast.
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UCSC professors receive Best Paper Award at the IFIP Networking 2007 Conference

Friday, May 18, 2007
The paper "On-Demand Routing in Disrupted Environments," by Jay Boice, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, and Katia Obraczka, received the Best Paper Award at the IFIP Networking 2007 Conference (http://www.ifip-networking.org/) held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 2007.
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UCSC Awarded Sun's Center of Excellence plaque for OpenSPARC

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Sun Senior Vice President Sunil Joshi of Design Tools (right) presents the Sun Center of Excellence plaque to Assistant Professor Jose Renau of UC Santa Cruz's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering .
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Computer scientist Phokion Kolaitis elected to Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

Monday, May 14, 2007
Phokion Kolaitis, professor of computer science at UC Santa Cruz, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in recognition of his "outstanding academic merits."
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Phillip Berman appointed to Baskin Endowed Chair in Biomolecular Engineering

Tuesday, May 8, 2007
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has appointed Phillip Berman, professor and chair of biomolecular engineering, to the Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Biomolecular Engineering. Berman is the first faculty member to hold the endowed chair, established in 2003 with a gift of $500,000 from philanthropist Jack Baskin, a UCSC Foundation trustee and longtime supporter of the Baskin School of Engineering.
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David Draper named Fellow of the American Statistical Association

Monday, May 7, 2007
The American Statistical Association (ASA) has selected David Draper, professor and chair of applied mathematics and statistics, as a 2007 Fellow of the ASA. Nominated by their peers, ASA Fellows are recognized by the association as "members of established reputation who have made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work."
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Engineer Dominik Rabus publishes book on optical devices

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Dominik Rabus, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has published a book entitled Integrated Ring Resonators (Springer, 2007). Rabus holds a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His book, a new volume in the Springer Series in Optical Sciences, deals with a special form of optical device, called a ring resonator, which has emerged in the last few years in integrated optics.
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Michael Isaacson appointed acting dean of UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
The UC Regents have approved the appointment of Michael Isaacson as acting dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Isaacson, the Narinder Kapany Professor of Electrical Engineering, takes the place of former dean Steve Kang, now chancellor of UC Merced.
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UC Santa Cruz to present conference on 'Genomics and Justice'

Monday, April 23, 2007
UC Santa Cruz will present Genomics & Justice: Promises, Perils & Paradoxes--a panel discussion and series of workshops exploring what are appropriate social or political goals to consider in the field of genetics--May 17-18 at the campus’s University Center.
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UCSC engineer Claire Gu honored by International Society for Optical Engineering

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Claire Gu, professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been elected a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). Gu is among 56 new Fellows honored by the society this year as members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the fields of optics, photonics, and imaging.
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Donkey Kong climbs Engineering 2 building

Monday, April 16, 2007
Donkey Kong (Miyamoto, et. al.,1981) was the first appearance of the Itallian plumber we now know as Mario. While this game's early '80s arcade popularity predates most of today's engineering students, it represents the amazing results that a small development team can produce. Today Donkey Kong is ranked as the 3rd most popular arcade game of all time, selling over 65,000 units.
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Fair wind blew UCSC a big donor: Jack Baskin sailed into town in the '60s and has made a lasting impact

Friday, April 13, 2007
It was the love of a sailboat that brought Jack Baskin to Santa Cruz in the 1960s, and led to the enrichment of the coastal town's philanthropic community; and the creation of the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), 10 years ago.
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Student Profile: Feeling the Heat

Tuesday, April 10, 2007
David Munday and Matthew Minolli could have graduated last June with degrees in computer engineering. Instead, they got so wrapped up in their senior design project they decided to stay at UCSC for a fifth year as undergraduates so they could see the project through to completion. By the end of this year, they hope to have their wireless sensor network deployed in Yellowstone National Park by the scientists who track one of the world’s largest active volcanic systems.
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