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A grounded look at embedded security, where flawed software can make solid detection miss the moment that matters.
Computers keep turning up in places that once looked mostly mechanical, and this episode tracks the security stakes from a wireless building motion sensor to airport screening. Its cleanest idea is that a detector is never just a detector anymore.
A grounded look at how electrodes, patient data, and computer vision could help turn flashes of light into usable sight.
Learning to See Again with a Bionic Eye tracks the effort to restore useful vision when retinal disease has damaged the eye's light-sensing layer. It moves cleanly from gene therapy to the harder engineering question: what does electrical stimulation actually create?
A crisp visual path from two-slot interference to the wave behavior of electrons.
Dr. Carver Mead turns a familiar two-slot barrier into a clean route from wave behavior into quantum physics. The strength of the episode is how steadily it ties frequency, wavelength, energy, momentum, wave vector, and angle to something the viewer can picture: interference…
A UC San Diego roundtable on why VLSI's system-level challenges may matter to AI's future.
VLSI occupies the quiet, load-bearing side of technology, and this UC San Diego roundtable looks at how that work may connect to future AI systems.
Host Jack Rhysider narrates true hacking, breach, and privacy stories from the people involved.
David Pierce and Verge staffers cover AI industry news, gadgets, and tech policy weekly.
Long-form interviews on AI coding agents, infrastructure, and security, plus a recurring SED News roundup.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
David Sparks and Stephen Robles dig into Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and Mac automation weekly.
Computing Primetime examines embedded computing and cybersecurity across cars, aircraft systems, and airport screening devices.
This episode features Angelique Taylor discussing her research in human-robot interaction, focusing on designing algorithms that enable robots to detect and work with groups of people in real-world settings using telepresence robots and sensor data.
Professor Rajesh Gupta discusses the growth of UC San Diego's computer science department, its focus on capturing imaginations through education and outreach, and how computer scientists now solve societal problems rather than just focusing on computers.
Ravi Ramamurthy, Zhuwen Tu, and Juergen Schulze explain how UC San Diego's Center for Visual Computing combines computer graphics, computer vision, and digital imaging.
This episode introduces the SPIS summer program at UC San Diego, designed to provide incoming computer science freshmen with an immersive, hands-on experience in the field before starting their introductory classes.
This episode explores how UC San Diego professors pioneered MOOCs with peer-to-peer learning systems that enhance student education through instant feedback and collaborative evaluation.
This episode discusses the Bootstrap program, a decade-old computer science education initiative that integrates programming into core math courses for middle and high school students to make learning more relevant and engaging.
This episode features personal statements from individuals at UC San Diego's CSE Red Chair Event, expressing their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in computer science and STEM fields.
This episode explores the integration of usable security and internet-wide measurements to better understand and protect user behaviors in online environments.
A speaker shares her personal journey into computer science and discusses UC San Diego's efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the CSE department through role models, committees, and outreach.
David Kohlbrenner discusses his PhD research on hardware-enabled timing attacks in web browsers and proposes adapting fuzzy time defenses to improve security.
This episode explores computer vision research, focusing on reconstruction and recognition problems, and their applications in fields like self-driving technology.
Max Mellette discusses his research on using photonics and optical switches to improve the energy efficiency and performance of data center networks.
This episode introduces the inaugural CSE Celebration of Diversity event, highlighting activities like video mobs and red chair discussions to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in computer science education.
Rob Knight discusses his research on the human microbiome, including its roles in digestion, immune system education, and even mosquito attraction.
This episode explores how modern cars use digital and internet-connected features like telematics for convenience, but also exposes them to cybersecurity risks similar to early personal computers.
This episode discusses a capstone university class where students build quadcopters to learn about PCB design, electronics, and software integration.
This episode introduces the Academy for Transfer Students at UC San Diego, highlighting how it helps students get ahead academically, build relationships, and develop study strategies through a summer program.
This episode discusses how modern exploration is being revolutionized by data-driven approaches, using examples like satellite imagery from Digital Globe to analyze everything from indigenous communities in the Amazon to global trends through computing, data science, and machine learning.
A computer science student at UC San Diego discusses the Smartfin project, which uses surfboard fins with embedded sensors to collect oceanographic data in near-shore environments to study climate change.
This episode features a student discussing her experience in UC San Diego's Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP), where she worked on a mobile game project focused on software verification.
Nadia Polikarpova discusses her work on creating new programming languages like Lifty that use formal verification to automate software development and prevent security errors.
An HCI researcher discusses using technology as a teammate in healthcare to enhance doctor-patient communication by shifting information tasks to AI, allowing doctors to focus more on personal engagement.
At UC San Diego's Jacobs School, Carver Mead, John Smee, and Sanjay Jha assess VLSI's future through AI, optics, RF, and new computing physics.
The episode covers UC San Diego's fifth annual Summer Internship Symposium, involving over 120 students interning at 50 companies globally.
A University of California Television lecture explains why Argus II retinal implants produce streaks instead of the pixel-like images assumed by the scoreboard model.
Carver Mead, the 2022 Kyoto Prize laureate in Advanced Technology, connects VLSI engineering with experiments on quantum waves and gravitation.
This episode explores the COSMOS summer program for high school students, focusing on its computer science cluster.
This episode from UC San Diego's Computer Science Channel covers the Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program.
Professor Steve Swanson introduces CSC 91, a robotics class for first-quarter freshmen at UCSD with no prior skills.
A UC San Diego professor discusses the new CSC Summer Internships for Mexican Students program, which hosted two students from Mexico this summer.