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James Badham
Yuheng Bu is pursuing a project aimed at advancing watermarking

Yuheng Bu seeks a better way to ensure the trustworthiness of AI-generated text

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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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Elena Zhukova

Richert Wang receives NSF grant to help bring role models from marginalized communities to computer science students
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UCSB joins a federally sponsored regional innovation hub to help bolster microelectronics technology
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Everyone will have their own AI soon
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A quantum magnetometer on a chip

UC Santa Barbara quantum scientists to conduct NSF-funded research to pursue quantum-scale sensor technologies
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A ‘toolbox of biocatalysts’ improves control over free radicals
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Amelie Funk

Climate science is catching up to climate change with predictions that could improve proactive response
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Researchers at the 2023 Mellichamp Mind & Machine Intelligence Summit contemplate and discuss the state of artificial intelligence
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Oil and gas extraction infrastructure in the Permian Basin

MethaneMapper is poised to solve the problem of underreported methane emissions
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From l to r: Ambuj Singh, Christopher Kruegel, João Hespanha, Giovanni Vigna

UC Santa Barbara to lead NSF-funded research institute for next-level AI-powered cybersecurity
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Beyond Moore’s Law: Innovations in solid-state physics include ultra-thin ‘two-dimensional’ materials and more
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