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![2024 Goldwater scholars](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/3up-portrait-hero-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=k7nPYUgs)
Clockwise, from left: Matthew Unger, Riya Nilkrant, Xuanwei Liang, Isaac Hair, Anika Jena
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![Maps and cityscapes on a grid.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-11/SM_GIS_layers-NSF-cropped.jpg?itok=air5fttc)
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Alice Kitterman/U.S. National Science Foundation
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![A pyramid of concept cards underpins a basilica on a laptop screen. Behind the computer is a more abstract pyramid of concepts floating above the desk.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/AI-art-Fabian-Offert.jpg?itok=Of1Li0xK)
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An illustration by Midjourney with the prompt: “A computer with clouds of equations and symbols.”
What an artificial intelligence displays on the screen reflects its internal representation of the world, which may be quite different than our own.
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![students at desks with laptops](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-10/computer-science-ucsb-opt.jpg?itok=3ai83oAB)
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Elena Zhukova
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![concept of a quantum magnetometer](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-08/chip-scale-quantum-magnetometer-long-uc-santa-barbara_0.jpg?itok=HzCyvfSx)
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Brian Long
A quantum magnetometer on a chip
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![concept of attaching radical molecule to aromatic compound](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-07/metalloenzyme-catalysis-yang-uc-santa-barbara_0.jpeg?itok=24iLkwgA)
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Courtesy Image
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Amelie Funk