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professors Tobias Fischer and Ben Halpern discuss AI in their research during a library speaker series
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Earth science professor Tobias Fischer (left) and Bren School professor Ben Halpern at UCSB Library's "AI in Action" spreaker series

UCSB Library launches ‘AI in Action’ speaker series

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Matt Perko
A researcher works in a campus lab devoted to AI.

UCSB computer science department to offer undergraduate major in AI
color portrait photograph of Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English Alan Liu
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus Alan Liu, January 2026

Faculty Research Lecturer Alan Liu ponders ‘good’ knowledge in the age of AI
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UC Santa Barbara English assistant professor Jim Casey is leading a project to recover and share 19th-century African American newspapers using artificial intelligence.

$750,000 Schmidt Sciences grant uses AI to transform Black press archives
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AI helps explain how covert attention works and uncovers new neuron types
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Breaking new ground in algorithmic theory
scientists use robotics
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Juan Manuel Urueña Vargas

NSF renews $19.8M for UCSB and UCLA to lead U.S. innovation in AI-driven biomaterials
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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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NSF grant supports advances in cyberinfrastructure for multimodal imaging data
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Yuehao Gao
A visitor experiences virtual reality at a Media Arts & Technology exhibition.

MAT end of year show fuses art and engineering
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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
AI making connections

UCSB to host second annual AI Spring Symposium
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To power AI, data centers need more and more energy
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