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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.

 

Prof. Timothy Sherwood International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) Panel

June 4, 2018

Panel On the Implications of the Meltdown & Spectre Design Flaws

Prof. William Wang gave a keynote on reinforced semi-supervised learning at Google I/O Extended Event

May 9, 2018

Google I/O Extended events help developers from around the world take part in the I/O experience. This year, during Google I/O event, UC Santa Barbara Computer Science Professor William Wang gave a keynote speech at the Santa Barbara extended event (hosted by LogMeIn) on the topics of reinforcement learning and semi-supervised learning.

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