Professor William Wang was interviewed by Scientific American about an algorithm that can spot when people lie to the police!
A new textbook titled "Kernelization, Theory of Parameterized Preprocessing" co-authored by our very own Daniel Lokshtanov, together with Fedor V. Fomin, Saket Saurabh and Meirav Zehavi has now been published by Cambridge University Press.
We would like to recognize our faculty who are currently Fellows with organizations such as IEEE, ACM, AAAS, NAE, ASME, SIAM, and IAPR. Each of these organizations and their members' mission is to inspire, innovate, and contribute to having a positive impact in the global community for a better tomorrow.
The Computers and Humans Exploring Software Security (CHESS) program aims to develop capabilities to discover and address vulnerabilities of all types in a scalable, timely, and consistent manner.
UCSB Computer Science PhD student, Semih Yavuz, in Prof. Xifeng Yan's group received the Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2018 Workshop titled "Conversational AI: Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Potential". This NeurIPS workshop focuses on conversational systems and natural language interfaces (such as Siri, Google Now, Cortana, and Alexa) which have become commonplace in the span of only a few years.
The 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation seeks to present innovative, exciting research in computer systems. OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The OSDI Symposium emphasizes innovative research as well as quantified or insightful experiences in systems design and implementation.
The sixth Annual NSA Competition for Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper recognized the best scientific cybersecurity paper published in 2017. One paper was selected for recognition from the 28 nominations received. The winning paper is How Shall We Play a Game? A Game-theoretical Model for Cyber-warfare Games by Tiffany Bao, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Ruoyu Wang, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, and David Brumley.
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We're hiring!
The CS department is growing, and we're hiring faculty (all areas of CS and all levels). In addition, we have a faculty position available in CS and neuroscience.
UCSB is also hiring faculty in Computer Engineering, which is shared between CS and ECE.
For more information on all positions and how to apply, CLICK HERE.
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05/17/19 3:00pm to 6:00pm
02/20/19 3:30pm to 4:30pm
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Winter 2018 Department Newsletter
Paid tutoring positions and the major field elective course (190J: Teaching Computer Science) are NOW OPEN! Click here to apply!
Mark your calendars, Wednesday, March 13th! Summit.cs
Academic Calendar: Important dates through Summer 2019.
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Wireless service eduroam is available both on and off campus
Check out the video: Flying over UCSB!
Undergraduates interested in research should check out the CRA's Conquer website
