As a kid, Sam Crow loved playing with toy airplanes. As an adult, he stood before a panel of Boeing engineers, showing them how he’d hacked into a real one. Crow was a doctoral student at UC San Diego ...

UCSD computer scientists have designed a system that automatically analyzes the behavior of all the WiFi connections in the UCSD computer science building. "In the end, we can say 'it's because of ...

Call it a $3 million mistake. There’s no stairway linking the lobby to the basement in UC San Diego’s computer science building, making it hard for students on the bottom floor — and those would be ...

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“People expect WiFi to work, but there is also a general understanding that it’s just kind of flakey,” said Stefan Savage, one of the UCSD computer science professors who led development of an ...