Research
Faculty and students in the Computer Science Department are engaged in a wide range of research topics. This page is just an overview of the research being done in the department; please visit the web pages for individual research groups for more detailed information.
Algorithms
Faculty
Computer Gaming
Faculty
- Michael Mateas
- Jim Whitehead
Computer Security
Computer Systems
Faculty
Research
- Storage Systems Research Center
The SSRC conducts research on many issues in file and storage systems, as well as broader issues in computer systems. Current research projects cover a wide range of topics, including archival storage, petabyte-scale distributed storage systems, file systems for next-generation storage technologies, and security and reliability in storage systems, and are funded by the Department of Energy (via the Petascale Data Storage Institute), National Science Foundation, and industrial sponsors of the SSRC. - Real Time Systems Lab
Database Systems
Faculty
Research
- Database Research at UC Santa Cruz
The Database Group conducts research on many issues related to database systems. Current research projects include data provenance, information integration, self-tuning systems, approximate query answering, and are funded by the National Science Foundation and IBM.
Graphics and Visualization
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Research
Machine Learning
Faculty
Research
- Machine Intelligence Lab
The Machine Intelligence Lab studies broad spectrum of foundational issues in computational intelligence. For some active topics, please see http://soe.ucsc.edu/classes/cmps240/.
Software Engineering
Faculty
Research
The software engineering research group focuses on software defect detection, especially concurrency analysis, and software bug prediction. Other research areas include software evolution, programming language type systems, pair programming and automatic construction of software systems. Programming languages and language design are also interests.