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The Current: Rising Research Stars

August 31, 2018

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Two of UC Santa Barbara’s junior engineering faculty members have received the prestigious Young Faculty Award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). William Wang, in the College of Engineering’s Department of Computer Science, and Jonathan Klamkin, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, join 34 other up-and-coming researchers for 2018.

Prof. William Wang receives 2018 IBM Faculty Award

August 27, 2018

Prof. William Wang receives 2018 IBM Faculty Award. This builds on their existing collaboration with IBM for a prior award in 2017. In a prior collaboration, they have pushed the boundaries of reinforcement learning optimization and knowledge graph reasoning. The results were published at IJCAI 2018 and EMNLP 2018.

Prof. William Wang received prestigious 2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award

August 23, 2018

Professor William Wang has received a prestigious 2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award! William was presented the award in Washington, D.C. In the past two years, William has successfully grown the Natural Language Processing Lab into one of the most prolific NLP groups in the world. CSRankings.org ranks UCSB #3 in NLP in 2018.

Prof. Chandra Krintz Keynote Speaker at IoT 2018

August 1, 2018

Keynote by Professor Chandra Krintz, UCSB on `SmartFarm: IoT Systems That Simplify and Automate Agriculture Analytics’

Computer Science ranked as the top college major

July 19, 2018

The Princeton Review lists Computer Science as the #1 college major in their recent list of Top Ten College Majors. The list is based on research covering job prospects, alumni salaries, and popularity. Here's what they say about CS:

James Schaffer, John O'Donovan, & Tobias Höllerer receive Best Paper Award at ACM UMAP 2018

July 15, 2018

ACM UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and 
practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to 
groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information.

The title of their paper is "Easy to Please: Separating User Experience from Choice Satisfaction."

Just Published: The Two-Volume Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, edited by Processor Emeritus Teofilo Gonzalez

July 7, 2018


The Two-Volume Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, edited by Processor Emeritus Teofilo Gonzalez, has just been published! This is the Second Edition of the handbook which is part of the Series  Computer and Information Science Series by Chapman and Hall/CRC Reference.

Undergraduate Mixer Event June 13, 2018

June 22, 2018

Prof. William Wang briefs legislators on AI at the State Capitol

June 20, 2018

Together with UC Berkeley's Vice Chancellor of Research and EECS Prof. Randy Katz, UC Santa Barbara Computer Science Prof. William Wang gave a presentation on the Past, Present, and Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Governor's room at the California State Capitol on Wednesday 06/20, 2018. This is a part of the bigger effort of UC Legislative Roundtable chaired by Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson. 

Graduate Students hosted the Spring 2018 CS BBQ

June 18, 2018

On June 4th 2018, the year-end Computer Science BBQ recently took place at Goleta Beach, with plenty of food and camaraderie.

 

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