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Breaking new ground in algorithmic theory

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Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues
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UC Santa Barbara’s Arpit Gupta is one of the inaugural recipients of Google’s ML & Systems Junior Faculty Award

Google honors UCSB computer scientist for pioneering low-cost AI network models
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To benefit from the internet, ‘not all screens are created equal’
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RazeMath is Nico Lehner, left, and Evan McCall, right.

RazeMath wins UCSB’s 26th annual New Venture Competition
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Geospatial information about how women use the ocean is an important part of marine spatial planning, but tends to be hidden in the data

Gender-sensitive data brings more depth to marine spatial planning
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Physicist and computer science assistant professor Murphy Yuezhen Niu

Murphy Niu receives NSF CAREER award for quantum computing innovation
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Energy and memory: A new neural network paradigm
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Photo illustration by Matt Perko with abstract visuals by Iason Paterakis and Nefeli Manoudaki; Original photo by SCARECROW artworks, Unsplash
AI-generated visuals designed by UCSB researchers help ease the psychological toll of isolation for scientists living and working in Antarctica.

New frontiers for well-being in Antarctica and isolated spaces
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World’s biggest Raspberry Pi cluster is now at UCSB
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Inspired by early biomimetic approaches, Kerem Çamsarı’s work evokes features of neural connectivity
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Next-gen 3D transistors transform energy-efficient electronics
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Daniel Blumenthal

Cold atoms on a chip
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