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September 19, 2023	Improving Software Developer Mental Well-Being and Productivity
September 19, 2023	UCI in Top 10 for Game Simulation/Development and Software Engineering; Top 30 for Computer Science UCI News Campus also rates highly for social mobility of its graduating students
September 18, 2023	Mohsen Imani Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
September 13, 2023	New Findings on CAPTCHAs Attract Worldwide Attention
September 12, 2023	ICS Summer Academy 2023: An ‘Incredible’ College Experience for High School Students
September 12, 2023	Daniel Epstein Earns Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to Explore Self-Tracking Engagement
September 6, 2023	Ask the Experts: Artificial Intelligence and Education UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement Quoted: Paul Dourish
September 5, 2023	‘The future of public health’: CSULB and UCI reach minority students with informatics program Signal Tribune Quoted: Kai Zheng and recent UCI graduate Letsy Cahue-Flores
August 29, 2023	Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars NPR Quoted: CS Ph.D. candidate Ziwen Wan
August 28, 2023	Alumni Spotlight: From Cancer to Climate Change, Peter Sadowski Applies Machine Learning to Address Real-World Problems
August 24, 2023	Alumni couple Paul and Jo Butterworth to receive UC Irvine’s Extraordinarius award UCI News Philanthropists will be among 24 honorees at Lauds & Laurels event
August 22, 2023	Mandt Appointed Program Chair for AISTATS 2024
August 17, 2023	A Productive Partnership: Entrepreneur Craig Caryl and the ICS Capstone Program
August 16, 2023	‘Recrafting Soft Technologies’ Course Offers Tangible Lessons in Computer Science
August 10, 2023	Bots are better at beating ‘are you a robot?’ tests than humans are New Scientist
August 10, 2023	High School Students Perform Real-World Analytics During Data Science for All Program
August 10, 2023	Why Everyone's Worried About Their Attention Span—and How to Improve Yours TIME Magazine Re: Gloria Mark interviewed
August 3, 2023	Ph.D. Candidate William Dunkel Heads to Seoul as Fulbright Fellow
July 31, 2023	Summer School for STEM Faculty: A Boot Camp in Bayesian Thinking
July 26, 2023	Tsudik Delivers Keynote at ICCCN 2023
July 18, 2023	UCI Researchers Receive $600,000 Grant From the Cyrus Tang Foundation UCI News Re: Zhaoxia Yu UCI Researchers Receive $600,000 Grant From the Cyrus Tang Foundation
July 18, 2023	ICS Researchers Receive Best Paper Award at Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium
July 17, 2023	Yes, People Who Are Blind Can Be Software Engineers UC Irvine’s Accessibility Research Collective works to shatter assumptions and empower people with disabilities.
July 7, 2023	More self-managed abortion internet searches in states with restrictions vs. without Healio Quoted: Sean Young
July 6, 2023	Sang-Woo Jun’s Work Selected for ISCA’s 25-Year Retrospective
June 29, 2023	Third Annual ICS Project Expo: Supporting the Tech Talent Pipeline
June 28, 2023	Beall Butterworth Competition Results Announced
June 28, 2023	Is the ‘internet apocalypse’ nigh? Breaking down the solar-storm science. The Washington Post Re: Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi interviewed
June 27, 2023	New Book - Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children MIT Press Re: New book coedited by Mizuko Ito Essays on the challenges and risks of designing algorithms and platforms for children, with an emphasis on algorithmic justice, learning, and equity.
June 26, 2023	2023 ICS Commencement: Centering Humanity
June 23, 2023	UC Irvine to Compete at World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest
June 22, 2023	Cheng Zhang Receives Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
June 22, 2023	Hireability Gaps and Frictions Between University Game Programs and Industry Hires [2023] International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Re: Study by Nika Nour, Constance Steinkuehler and Garrison Wells
June 21, 2023	2023 Southern California Software Engineering Symposium Unites Industry and Academia
June 21, 2023	Breaking Barriers: VenusHacks 2023 Empowers Women in Computing
June 20, 2023	Faculty and Staff Honored at 2023 ICS Awards Celebration
June 20, 2023	Stanislaw Jarecki Named Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research
June 15, 2023	Games as Social Platforms ACM Games Research & Practice Re: By Constance Steinkuehler (originally posted March 3, 2023) Constance Steinkuehler argues in this opinion piece that online game companies can and should be included in new social media regulations.
June 14, 2023	Muhammad Twaha Ibrahim Awarded Link Foundation Fellowship
June 13, 2023	Bringing emotional intelligence to artificial intelligence UCI News UCI alumni siblings Karishma and Pratyush Muthukumar '22 to present at UN’s AI for Good 2023 global summit.
June 13, 2023	QT STEM: A Safe Space for LGBTQ+ Students in STEM at UCI
June 12, 2023	What happens if AI grows smarter than humans? The answer worries scientists. Popular Science Re: Sameer Singh interviewed
June 12, 2023	Celebrating Dr. Jazette Johnson and Dr. Lucretia Williams: An Important First in Informatics
June 9, 2023	SoCal Data Science Program to Expand Its Reach With $1.3M Grant
June 8, 2023	Bandwidth: Guard it Like Your Life Depends on it KUCI, Ask A Leader Podcast Re: Gloria Mark Interviewed
June 8, 2023	Fritz Onion, M.S. ’93: An Inspiration for Giving Back
June 7, 2023	On the Road to Internet Adoption, a Cryptographic Protocol Helps Secure 2 Billion WhatsApp Users
June 5, 2023	Senior Spotlight: Jumanah Almajnouni Ready to Hit the Ground Running as a Software Engineer
June 1, 2023	Connected Wellbeing Initiative to Build Understanding and Action Regarding Teens’ Technology Use and Their Mental Health
May 31, 2023	AIStory: Leveraging Generative AI for Culturally Responsive Learning
May 30, 2023	TikTok Creators’ Financial Info, Social Security Numbers Have Been Stored In China Forbes Quoted: Bryan Cunningham (CPRI)
May 24, 2023	Alumni Spotlight: Nenad Medvidović’s Serendipitous Journey to Success in Academia
May 23, 2023	#IamUCI – Jazette Johnson UCI News Q&A with Class of 2023 graduate Jazette Johnson, Ph.D., informatics
May 23, 2023	CMU Researcher Uses ChatGPT To Execute Computer Tasks CMU News Quoted: Pierre Baldi Large Language Models Can Solve Computer Tasks Using Keyboard, Mouse Actions
May 22, 2023	ICS and Engineering Schools Induct Six into 2023 Hall of Fame
May 22, 2023	Ph.D. Student Alagappan Ramanathan Named Internet Society Pulse Research Fellow
May 17, 2023	ACM Honors Ramesh Jain with Distinguished Service Award
May 17, 2023	Ph.D. Student Christina Magana-Ramirez Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
May 11, 2023	Ph.D. Student Fangqi Liu Named a 2023 Rising Star in Cyber-Physical Systems
May 10, 2023	The Power of Health Informatics
May 8, 2023	UCI Podcast: If you can't pay attention, you're not alone UCI News Re: Interview with Gloria Mark Gloria Mark explains why we’re distracted and how to fight it
May 5, 2023	Senior Spotlight: GDIM Major Matthew Knight Presses Start on His Game Development Career
May 4, 2023	Data@UCI Embarks on Data Science Adventures in Inaugural Datathon
May 1, 2023	The Connected Arts Learning Framework: An Expanded View of the Purposes and Possibilities for Arts Learning Philanthropy News Digest Re: Report coauthored by Mizuko Ito and Kylie Peppler
April 25, 2023	UCI’s Graduate Programs Shine in U.S. News & World Report Rankings UCI News Computer Science graduate program is in the top 20 among public universities.
April 25, 2023	Delving into The Privilege of Play
April 20, 2023	Mohammad Moshirpour Receives 2023 APEGA Summit Award for Excellence in Education
April 20, 2023	Student Spotlight: Dylan Riffle Explores Intersection of Computer Science, Biology and Agriculture
April 19, 2023	Back-to-Back Wins Send ICS Grad Students to Microsoft Imagine Cup World Championship
April 12, 2023	UCI to Compete in the International Collegiate Programming Contest’s North America Championship
April 10, 2023	Alumni Spotlight: Game Play Sparks Software Engineering Career for Jun-Wei Lin
April 6, 2023	Shuang Zhao Receives NSF CAREER Award
April 5, 2023	Faculty Spotlight: Vijay Vazirani’s Contributions Stand the Test of Time
April 3, 2023	The Race for AI: Time to Raise Awareness
April 3, 2023	Opinion: Will TikTok be banned? Maybe it should be for kids, at least. USA Today Quoted: Gloria Mark
March 29, 2023	"Like a frog in boiling water": How Big Tech stole our ability to focus Salon
March 29, 2023	MDS Program Explores Impact of Data in Politics with Shanthi Pierce
March 29, 2023	Designing for Kids: A Youth-Centered Perspective for Tracking Health Data
March 28, 2023	Disparate double major UCI News Scholarship recipient Emily Truong is pursuing degrees in both dance and data science.
March 28, 2023	ICS Students Win Grad Slam 2023 with Tech Applications in Health
March 28, 2023	Postdoc Spotlight: Joey Huang Aims to Increase Inclusivity in Computer Science
March 23, 2023	Applications Open for 2023 ICS Summer Academy on Data Analytics and Machine Learning
March 21, 2023	Faculty Spotlight: Jennifer Wong-Ma and the Power of Community
March 20, 2023	Identifying the Building Blocks of Attention in Deep Learning
March 16, 2023	Our Attention Spans Are Declining, and Technology Is Not Solely To Blame Newsweek Re: Gloria Mark Interviewed
March 16, 2023	Extend Your Attention Span with Gloria Mark Future Squared with Steve Glaveski (Podcast) Re: Gloria Mark Interviewed
March 16, 2023	Student Spotlight: Dance and Data Science Double Major Emily Truong Moves to the Rhythm of Algorithms
March 14, 2023	Informatics Ph.D. Candidate Bono Salazar Olgado Named a Distinguished Fellow
March 14, 2023	Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate Takami Sato Named Public Impact Fellow
March 6, 2023	Faculty Spotlight: Veronica Berrocal Speaks to the Impact of Statistics
March 6, 2023	Irani Builds New Collaborations as Associate Director of the Simons Institute
March 3, 2023	Biden cyber strategy a ‘game changer’ and ‘revolutionary,’ industry pros say SC Media Quoted: Bryan Cunningham
March 3, 2023	UC Irvine Partners With Linux Foundation to Welcome New Open Source Projects from Peraton Labs to Scale 5G Security Peraton Labs, the applied research unit of Peraton, open sources its ProD3 and SEDIMENT network security projects for 5G and IoT under neutral auspices of the Linux Foundation.
March 2, 2023	Highlighting Women and Allies in Tech Across UCI Women in Technology at UCI Re: Stacy Branham named a 2023 Applause Recipient
February 28, 2023	MDS Program and SoCal RUG Bring Together Industry Experts to Discuss MLOps
February 23, 2023	Student Creativity and Innovation Take Center Stage at Hack at UCI 2023
February 23, 2023	Examining instances when play can be painful UCI News UC Irvine informatics researcher Aaron Trammell explores subject in new book
February 23, 2023	Staff Spotlight: Dr. Joni Ricks-Oddie Joins Long Beach City Council with Family and Career Proudly in Tow The director of UC Irvine’s Center for Statistical Consulting won her race for Long Beach City Council.
February 21, 2023	The Darker Side of Play
February 21, 2023	The Lawfare Podcast: Chris Inglis Re: Bryan Cunningham Interviewed
February 16, 2023	How AI will change the way we search, for better or worse Engadget Quoted: Sameer Singh
February 16, 2023	Informatics Ph.D. Student María José Anderson Coto Wins Miguel Velez Scholarship
February 15, 2023	Informatics Course Includes Webinar on Integrating Accessibility Into a Computing Career
February 14, 2023	Singh Gives the Lowdown on ChatGPT in Popular Mechanics Article
February 14, 2023	Informatics Ph.D. Student Emani Dotch Hopes to Raise Awareness as Grad Slam Finalist
February 13, 2023	UC Irvine alumni Paul and Jo Butterworth pledge $35.5 million to Donald Bren School UCI News Record gift will support programs fostering ICS student success and achievement
February 8, 2023	Tribute to Geoffrey Bowker Brings Together Scholarly Community
February 1, 2023	Celebrating Black History Month
January 31, 2023	Singh Talks ChatGPT and More on Popular Machine Learning Podcast
January 31, 2023	Interdisciplinary Team Awarded $1.2M to Explore the Future of Risk Prediction in Fire Departments
January 27, 2023	Xu Receives ASA Nonparametric Statistics Section Student Paper Award
January 26, 2023	Regaining Focus in a World of Digital Distractions Re: Gloria Mark's book, Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
January 25, 2023	A Minecraft Server for Grieving Kids Tech & Learning Quoted: Katie Salen
January 23, 2023	ICS Alumna Leysia Palen recognized as rare ‘distinguished professor’ by CU system University of Colorado Boulder News
January 23, 2023	Irani Named ACM Fellow
January 13, 2023	Can Gaming Cool Global Warming? An Experimental Climate XR Class Aims to Inspire Change
January 12, 2023	Your attention span is shrinking, studies say. Here’s how to stay focused CNN Quoted: Gloria Mark
January 11, 2023	Bryan Cunningham on a Federally Funded Backstop for the Cyber Insurance Ecosystem The Lawfare Podcast Re: Bryan Cunningham interviewed
January 11, 2023	UCI launches new public health informatics and technology training program with an emphasis on diversity among its students UCI Public Health $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services helped establish the workforce development program
January 10, 2023	How to Focus Like It’s 1990 The New York Times Mentioned: Gloria Mark
January 9, 2023	How to Restore Our Dwindling Attention Spans The Wall Street Journal Re: Gloria Mark essay
January 3, 2023	Software Engineering and Data Science Professional Master Programs Celebrate Capstone Successes
December 13, 2022	Informatics Ph.D. Student Yawen Guo Wins 2nd Place at AMIA Student Paper Competition
December 13, 2022	Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard Armchair Expert podcast Re: Gloria Mark interviewed
December 13, 2022	Computer Science Degree Expert Advice with Aditi Majumder TechGuide Re: Aditi Majumder interviewed
December 7, 2022	Grand Opening of the HPI Research Center at UCI
December 6, 2022	Ph.D. Student Andrew Chio Named ARCS Scholar, UC National Lab In-Residence Fellow
December 6, 2022	Inspirational Women LA Times B2B Publishing Re: Gillian Hayes Featured
December 5, 2022	How Gaming Creates Opportunities for Learning That Endures EdSurge Quoted: Mimi Ito
December 2, 2022	ICS Student Council Announces Winning Projects From WebJam 2022
December 2, 2022	Chen Li Elevated to IEEE Fellow for Significant Contributions to Approximate Query Processing
November 30, 2022	ICS Establishes First-Ever Scholarship for Military-Connected Students Through Master of Data Science Program