Window into Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) Poster Session

This is the first of four informal interviews with graduate students who presented at the UC San Diego Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) poster session today. The poster session was part of the CWC Research Review (PDF of agenda here), which happens twice per year. (Info of past reviews is here.)

This first interview is with Haleh Azartash, who is a graduate student in electrical engineering professor Dr. Truong Nguyen's Video Processing Group.

Her poster describes her work on software and algorithmic methods for minimizing and eliminating camera motion and shake in video footage: Real Time Affine Global Estimation using Phase Correlation

iPhone app with UCSD Roots Named One of 10 Best Apps by Gizmodo

The TowerMadness roll continues...Gizmodo named them one of the week's best iPhone apps. The fact that they created a free version of the game that is supported by ads that are "not very annoying" seems popular with the blogosphere.

...it's amazing the things you learn when you don't turn off a Google Alert.

Hey Jacobs School?! What/who else (related to engineering) should we be monitoring via Google Alerts?

Smarter Than Genius on Slashdot /.

Research on building algorithms that make playlists as well as iTunes Genius landed on Slashdot today...from the "from the put-that-man-down dept. "

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/05/227236/Going-Head-To-Head-With-Genius-On-Playlists?from=rss

Jacobs School on YouTube

Do you know of any Jacobs-School-related videos that you think should be on the Jacobs School of Engineering YouTube channel? Let me know. dbkane AT ucsd DOT edu

Bit by bit, I am transfering videos to one YouTube video channel:
http://www.youtube.com/jacobsschoolnews

Below is a video profile of Jacobs School electrical engineering professor Pam Cosman.

IEEE Xtreme 3.0

A team of Jacobs School undergrads calling themselves "Team 'The Bagpipe Lubricators'" placed 16th overall (and 6th from United States) in a 24-hour online computer programming contest run by IEEE called IEEE Xtreme 3.0.

The official IEEE results page highlights how two Jacobs School computer programming teams finished in the top 25. The Bagpipe Lubricators finished 16th in the world, and Team XYZZY finished 19th in the world. 700 teams registered.

Jordan Ree is the caption of the Bagpipe Lubricators, and Elliot Slaughter is captain of XYZZY. I'll update this posting with the full names of both of these teams, when I get that info.

These two Jacobs School teams finished first and second in the region.

More pictures are posted: http://ieee.ucsd.edu/photos/album.php?album_id=115

The Mountain Dew can and empty pizza boxes are great.

Jacobs School Photo Contest!! Deadline is Dec 4

Break out the cameras and start taking pictures of life at the Jacobs School. It's time for the Jacobs School student photo contest...brought to you by Engineering Student Services (ESS). All engineering students are invited to submit up to two (2) high resolution digital photos that somehow fit into the theme "Triton Engineering: Location, Innovation, Celebration!"

Note to Photoshop-fiends, Picasa-pros, and Gimp-Geniuses: you're NOT ALLOWED to digitally alter your photos after you take the picture. So think ahead and do all the cool effects on the front end, WHEN you take the picture. It's more fun that way. (And read all the fine print here...not that there is much to say...)

I'm excited to see what comes in. Every time I leave my office, I see something and think, "that would make a great photo."

Music Search Engine Video Featured by Technology Review

Technology Review featured the music search engine video from the Jacobs School on their Technology Review editors blog. What's cool is that the video includes a past winner of Technology Review's "TR 35" a prestigious list of top young innovators: UC San Diego computer science professor Serge Belongie. Serge sings and plays guitar with his band S03 in the second video clip of the YouTube video. Learn more about S03 on their myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/so3music

Learn more about Serge Belongie's computer science research at:
http://vision.ucsd.edu/person/serge-belongie

But that's not all. One of professor Belongie's Ph.D. students is Carolina Galleguillos, the vocalist for Juna and the first performer you see in the Jacobs School music search video (in the silver dress). I also interview Galleguillos later on in the video...so be sure to watch through to the end...the video ends with her.