Energize!
My name is Bryce Boe and I received my Bachelors of Science from UCSB in Computer Science on June 14, 2008. I am returning to UCSB in the fall as a first year PhD student following a summer internship with Google.
Courses
Spring 2008
- CMPSC 176C (Zheng) - Google Group
- CMPSC 186 (Ibarra)
- CMPSC 595G (Kruegel and Vigna)
Winter 2008
- CMPSC 176B (Zhao) -Google Group
- CMPSC 177 (Vigna) -Mailing List
- CMPSC 595F (Zhao and Zheng) -Google Group
- Engr 101 (Swiontek)
Fall 2007
About Me
I grew up in San Diego; Poway to be exact where, I attended elementary, middle and high school. I was the starting middle blocker for Rancho Bernardo's varsity volleyball team both my junior and senior year of high school. I broke my first computer when I was eight, and of course later learned to fix them. I interned at Northrop Grumman as a Computer Support Technician during my senior year of high school.
I first started making web pages in 6th grade and first worked with php my junior year of high school. My first real programming experience was UCSB's CS10 course. As a freshmen I competed and won the UCSB Programming Battle. The following three years I competed in the ACM's Southern California Regional Programming Competition placing 15, 5, 12 respectively. This year I joined the UCSB ACM Chapter as an officer and started the Interactive Informational Sessions.
Make It So! (Get Ubuntu!)
If you are a computer science student and are still using Windows, STOP! Do yourself a favor and install linux. It is free and excellent. While any distribution is sufficient, Ubuntu has great support forums and overall has an excellent feel. It's simple enough for your grandmother, yet provides for all your hacking needs. On top of that, if you just can't completely leave Windows behind, the install process will shrink your Windows partition; it can't be any easier. Though I recommend taking a little precaution and back important information up before doing that; just in case.
Research
I started working in Ben Zhao's Current Lab in fall quarter of 2007 while still technically an undergradute. I've since worked on a number of projects which when something I've worked on becomes published I'll make it available here.
For any undergraduate students reading this, I highly recommend looking into research and graduate school. At the very least getting a masters will give you a leg up in the job market and it only involves about two additional years of school. Compare that to the next thirty or so years you will spend working. If money is an issue, know that many school's engineering departments pay for their student's tuition as well as paying them a monthly stipend for research. It doesn't get much better than being paid to learn.
