Greg Levin, ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: A Unifying Theory for Optimal Hard Real-Time Multiprocessor Scheduling, Wednesday, June 9, 1:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 506

Denmark-California Renewable Energy Summer Program LoCal-Re 2010, Friday, June 11, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 595H

Anna Povzner, DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Efficient Guaranteed Disk I/O Performance Management, Friday, June 11, 1:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 399

Senior Design Contest Final, Friday, June 11, 4:00 pm, Simularium, Engineering 2

Denmark-California Renewable Energy Summer Program LoCal-Re 2010 (FINAL DAY TO REGISTER), Sunday, June 20, 12:00 pm, Engineering 2, Room 595H

Computer Science Ph.D. Student Tim Kaldewey and Scott Brandt to win Best Paper Award at SIGMOD 2010

The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data will award its 2010 Best Paper Award to Tim Kaldewey, Computer Science Professor Scott Brandt, and their collaborators at Intel and Oracle for their paper, "FAST: Fast Architecture Sensitive Tree Search on Modern CPUs and GPUs," at its annual SIGMOD conference, June 6-11 in Indianapolis, Indiana.  More

Undergrads present research at poster symposium on Thursday, June 3

The 2010 Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium at UC Santa Cruz will take place on Thursday, June 3, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Baskin Engineering Courtyard. The event is free and open to the public.   More

Anna Povzner, Computer Science Ph.D. student, and Scott Brandt to win Best Paper Award

The ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing will present its 2010 Best Paper award to Doctoral Candidate Povzner, Professor of Computer Science Brandt, and collaborator Darren Sawyer for the work "Horizon: Efficient Deadline-Driven Disk I/O Management for Distributed Storage Systems" at the annual conference on June 23.  More

Darrell Long Appointed Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Storage

The Baskin School's Darrell Long, Malavalli Professor of Computer Science, has been selected by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to be the next Editor in Chief of the journal ACM Transactions on Storage.  More

New version of Linux OS includes Ceph file system developed at UCSC

Efficient, reliable storage of electronic data is a growing challenge of the digital age. Ceph, an open-source file system developed by computer scientists in the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, offers an innovative approach to the data storage challenge.   More

CITRIS Big Ideas winners for 2010

This year, CITRIS awarded seven student-led proposals a total of $30,000 in prize money at the April 22 poster session for our annual White Paper competition. The judges had a very difficult time determining these winners, as all of the proposals that we received were outstanding, and everyone who entered should be congratulated for their hard work and insightful ideas about complex societal problems. Congratulations to this year's winners of the CITRIS Big Ideas competition!  More

New institute prepares science and engineering grad students to teach

Graduate students in science and engineering typically receive intensive training in research and relatively little guidance in teaching. A new institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, aims to change that by preparing science and engineering graduate students for their educational role, whether as future faculty members or in the wide range of other careers that require teaching skills.  More

Baskin in the News: UC Santa Cruz engineering students host robot duels

High-tech robots went head-to-head in an old-fashioned shootout Friday night in which UC Santa Cruz Mechatronics students transformed the Engineering Lecture Hall into the OK Corral.  More