Category Archives: Computer science
Touchscreen pioneer, alumnus Francis Lee to speak
Francis Lee, current board chair and former CEO of Synaptics, Inc., will speak at UC Davis on Tuesday, April 23. His talk begins at 4 p.m. in Kemper Hall, room 1065 and admission is free. RSVP via Facebook. When Lee …
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Teachers, want to be a robotics fellow?
The UC Davis C-STEM Center has two fellowship opportunities, Robotics Fellows and CREST Fellows, for teachers in science, technology, engineering and math. Application deadline for both fellowships is April 5. The Center is also once again offering its Summer Institute, …
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Cyberattack slows the internet
A massive “distributed denial of service” attack on a spam-fighting nonprofit is slowing down network speeds for services across the internet, according to a number of media reports. The attack is apparently being launched against Spamhaus, a nonprofit group based …
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Girls Who Code summer program kicks off with Girl Rising premiere
Intel Corp.’s Girls Who Code program will be coming to UC Davis this summer. Now in its second year, Girls Who Code aims to educate and inspire 13- to 17-year-old girls to pursue opportunities in technology and engineering. UC Davis is the …
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Solving genome puzzles without a picture
New genomics technique could help sequencing less-known species One of the most difficult problems in the field of genomics is assembling relatively short “reads” of DNA into complete chromosomes. In a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy …
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UC Davis C-STEM Center Wins NSF Grant for Learning Math with Robots
Contributed by Harry Cheng The UC Davis C-STEM Center has received a grant of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation to study collaborative mathematics learning with robots. The two-year project aims to transform math education by integrating computer programming, robotics, …
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Weekend workshop prepares “Counselors for Computing”
School counselors will gather at the UC Davis Conference Center Saturday for a workshop on how to guide and advise school students interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The counselors will hear from both teachers and …
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Business school, College of Engineering fare well in US News rankings
The UC Davis Graduate School of Management and the graduate programs of the College of Engineering are both included in this year’s US News and World Report rankings. The Graduate School of Management’s part-time MBA program placed No. 19 among …
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Learn about superconductivity at Emergent Universe
The online exhibit Emergent Universe has opened a new virtual wing, on ‘Superconductivity.’ Opened in 2009, Emergent Universe aims to encourage young people to learn about “emergence,” complex behaviors that arise from interactions of simple parts, and develop an “emergent …
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Wrapping sorts carbon nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes – sheets of carbon atoms rolled up into tiny cylinders or tubes – have many interesting properties and potential uses, for example in flexible display screens or printed circuits. Some act like conducting metals, and others are semiconductors. …
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