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Brian Long
A new project aims to understand theoretical aspects of quantum cryptography that could be used to protect computing in the future.

Could quantum computers protect privacy and security?

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Elections math is the subject of new graduate seminar
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Exploiting atomically thin materials for energy efficient electronics
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Jeff Liang
UCSB ExFAB staff and senior participants, from left, Oliver Vining, Elaine Kirschke, Jean-Marie Volland, Nathalie Elisabeth, Sherylle Mills Englander, Max Wilson, Michelle O'Malley, Joel Rothman, Niels Volkmann and Carolyn Mills.

UCSB to lead $22M NSF-funded center on exceptional microbes
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A long-exposure shot of fireflies in Thailand

Rhythms of nature: understanding synchrony in oscillatory systems
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Shuji Nakamura to be inducted into Engineering and Science Hall of Fame
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Researchers propose the next platform for brain-inspired computing
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AI learns to pay covert attention
2024 Goldwater scholars
Clockwise, from left: Matthew Unger, Riya Nilkrant, Xuanwei Liang, Isaac Hair, Anika Jena

Five UC Santa Barbara undergraduates named Goldwater Scholars
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Alice Kitterman/U.S. National Science Foundation

Mapping science: How GIS transformed our view of the world
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Core textbook on computer music distills ‘vast information space’ in a definitive tutorial
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Chemistry professor Yang Yang receives a 2023 Packard Fellowship
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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.

The mind of the machine
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