• 2018 Cyber Defense Team Competition

    2018 Cyber Defense Team Competition

    We are very proud to announce that the SDSU Cyber Defense Team won 2nd Place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. They placed above well renowned schools like Stanford University, Cal Poly Pomona, UC Riverside, and Arizona State University. This was SDSU’s first year in the competition. Their sights are set for 1st…

  • Dr. Marie Roch’s Research Featured in NY Times Article

    Dr. Marie Roch’s Research Featured in NY Times Article

       The research of Dr. Marie Roch from the SDSU Department of Computer Science is featured in this New York Times article. Although her name is not mentioned, Dr. Roch is a significant contributor to the research conducted here, and she is one of the authors of the journal article published in the PLOS Computational…

  • A Novel Virus’ Cousins Are Surprisingly Abundant

    A Novel Virus’ Cousins Are Surprisingly Abundant

    When SDSU computer scientist Rob Edwards discovered crAssphage in 2014, it was just the tip of a viral iceberg. By Michael Price When San Diego State University computer scientist Rob Edwards and colleagues uncovered a wholly new virus nicknamed crAssphage in the guts of about three-quarters of the world’s population in 2014, it was a startling discovery. Biologists marveled…

  • 2017 Student Cluster Competition at the Supercomputing Conference Nov 11-18.

    2017 Student Cluster Competition at the Supercomputing Conference Nov 11-18.

    Pictured Above: 2017 SCC Team Pictured Above: 2016 SCC Team Each year, the SDSU Departments of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Computational Science participate in the renowned Supercomputing Conference Series by attending workshops, submitting papers and posters, and setting up a research booth. In 2016, with a generous grant provided by Intel, SDSU competed in…

  • Mentoring: Answering a Call to Action

    Mentoring: Answering a Call to Action

      Once an Aztec, always an Aztec!  Aztec for Life!® We hear these words spoken in graduation ceremonies, in promotional videos, and on the scoreboard at Aztec games. But what do these words mean? Some say they mean that in our hearts, we will always have a love for SDSU. Others say they mean we…