News Archive

CS researchers John O'Donovan and William Wang discussed the past, present, and future of Artificial Intelligence

August 21, 2017

What is Aritificial Intelligence (AI)? How did AI grow in the past few decades? What are the state-of-the-art of AI technologies now, and how about AI's future?

On Saturday 08/19, UCSB CS researchers Drs. John O'Donovan and William Wang gave an invited talk at the Humanist Society of Santa Barbara.

Prof. Krintz presented SmartFarm research at the Science and Engineering Council of Santa Barbara

August 15, 2017

Performance is Overrated or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Slow Hardware

August 11, 2017

Profs. Krintz, Wolski, Agrawal, and El Abbadi won a new grant to build next-generation cloud federation

August 10, 2017

Prof. Teo Gonzalez's service was recognized by ABET

August 4, 2017

ABET is a non-profit organization that accredits post-secondary education programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology.

Professor Emeritus Teofilo F. Gonzalez has been a CAC Program Evaluator (5 years) and CAC Commissioner (5 years). Currently he contributes to the CAC Commission as a Team Chair evaluating CAC programs. In the past 12 months the Commission reviewed 125 individual computing programs in 100 institutions around the world. The goal was to improve computing education in United States.

Professor Sherwood wins proposal to develop computer hardware based on lambda-calculus

August 1, 2017

A Coding Camp for Girls

July 20, 2017

What would be the best way to spend a memorable Summer in Santa Barbara? Ocean, beaches, sunshine, and what? 

UCSB computer science teaching faculty Diba Mirza is now hosting a coding camp with Dos Pueblos High this Summer. 

Tres Commas wins Best Computer Science Capstone for 2016-17

July 11, 2017

Congratulations to Capstone 2016-17 Senior Project 1st Place winners Tres Commas! Team members Jonathan Easterman (lead), Carson Holoien, Vince Nicoara, Shasha Shams, Arda Ungun, and Vince Nicoara were mentorerd by industry partner Invoca, represented by Mike Weaver and Colin Kelley. Their winning project titled Voice Biometrics Integration, utilized easy-to-deploy automated voice authentication to speed-up the authentication process for call centers of any size.  

Matthew Turk Named Department Chair of UCSB Computer Science

July 10, 2017

We are pleased to announce that Professor Matthew Turk will serve as Chair of the Department of Computer Science, upon the recommendation of Rod Alferness, Dean of UCSB's College of Engineering. In his new role effective July 1, 2017, Professor Turk succeeds Professor Ambuj Singh, who served as CS Department Chair since July 2014.

Prof. William Wang seeks to close the gaps in human-computer communication through NLP research

July 10, 2017

“Machines need to not just understand human language, but learn how to generate human language,” contends Assistant Professor William Wang. Improving the ability for computers to converse with humans, and vice versa, is the focus of Wang's research. Think iPhone's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana...and beyond.

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