Admit Day 2006

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• Admit Day 2006

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CSE Schedule

• Welcome and Overview (1045-1100)
• Geoff Voelker, CSE Assistant Professor
• Student panel
• CSE Building Visit (1135)
• Leave from back of Ballroom
• Meet the Department (1150)
• CSE building (EBU3B) room 1202 (ground floor)
• CSE Student Panel with Faculty and Staff
• QA Session
• Refreshments

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CSE at UCSD

• Why come to CSE at UCSD?
• 1. Exceptionally strong and rigorous curriculum
• 2. Outstanding teaching and research faculty
• 3. Rich extracurricular environment
• Combined, we prepare our students for
• Leadership in a competitive high-tech job market
• Advanced study in graduate school

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Curriculum

• CSE offers a broad and deep curriculum
• Founded on practical and theoretical basics
• Leading to advanced topics
• Networking, systems, AI, architecture, theory,
  etc.
• And rich multidisciplinary areas
• High-performance computing, bioinformatics,
  computer vision, graphics, cognitive science,
  e-commerce, etc.
• Four degrees provide flexibility
• BA/CS, BS/CS, BS/CE
• BS/CS with a specialization in Bioinformatics
• Cross-disciplinary, nationally innovative
• 5-year BS/MS program for advanced study

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Curriculum

• Advanced courses
• System design using games
• Mobile computing
• Computer graphics rendering
• State-of-the-art computing resources
• Instructional labs donated by Sun, Microsoft,
  Intel, Dell, etc.
• Wireless for laptops and PDAs
• Supercomputers at SDSC (gigabits, teraflops, and
  petabytes)

Cyrus Jam
Craig Donner
Arash Keshmirian
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Faculty

• CSE classes taught by an outstanding faculty
• Large and diverse 50 and growing!
• Distinguished
• Fellows of IEEE, ACM, Packard, Sloan, Guggenheim
  NSF young investigators Academy Award
• Research Impact
• George Varghese high-speed Internet routing
• Mihir Bellare SSL cryptography
• Henrik Wann Jensen computer graphics
• Excellence in teaching
• Pasquale, Vahdat, Voelker recent university
  teaching award winners

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Environment
CSE has many opportunities outside the classroom

• Lab and teaching assistants
• Undergrads assist in many of our courses
• Great way to learn, interact closely with faculty
• World-class research opportunities
• Projects with graduate students and faculty
• Key opportunity of a research university
• CSE, San Diego Supercomputer Center

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Environment

• Strong connections with industry
• Both local and national companies
• Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Sun, HP, IBM, Intel,
  Qualcomm, Ericsson, Sony, ATT,
• Many students do internships/coops for credit
• Apply academic knowledge in real-world settings

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Environment

• Join outstanding students in CSE
• ACM Programming Contest
• World Finals past 5/6 years

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Environment

• Join us in a new building
• Centrally located with other engineering depts
• New, larger instructional labs

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Environment

• Join an outstanding department
• CSE 13th in nation in Computer Science (USNews)

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Environment

• Join an outstanding department
• CSE 13th in nation in Computer Science (USNews)

-2 in 2015!
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Information

• CSE Web pages
• http//www.cse.ucsd.edu
• Q A today
• _at_ CSE building 1202
• CSE Student Affairs
• 1st Floor CSE (EBU3B)
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]

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Important People

• Pat Raczka
• CSE Undergrad Program Director
• Viera Kair
• CSE Student Affairs Coordinator
• Paul Kube
• CSE Vice-Chair of Undergrad Affairs
• Keith Marzullo
• CSE Professor, Assistant Chair of
  Undergrad Affairs