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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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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
Bright colors and different shapes meant to illustrate a photonic array
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Brian Long
Artist's concept illustration of a photonic memory array

A new optical memory platform for super fast calculations
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Matt Perko

UCSB’s cybersecurity chief on protecting digital spaces and the role of AI
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Talk on AI and the creative process kicks off Interdisciplinary Humanities Center yearlong public event series
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Lilli Walker
Kerem Çamsari (left) and third-year Ph.D. student Shaila Niazi, who used p-bits to create images that were not part of a machine-learning training data set.

Proving the value of an old algorithm in training deep-learning models for AI
A cyclist rides beneath the palm trees along UCSB’s costal bluffs.
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Matt Perko
Santa Barbara is among the cities in California actively working to make the state more bike friendly.

Using AI in pursuit of better bike paths
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Haewon Jeong

Dirty data: an opportunity for cleaning up bias in AI
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AI learns to pay covert attention
Researcher's new book and portrait

How to build and protect skills in our modern workplace, a world filled with AI and robots
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Computer scientist William Wang receives prestigious early career technical achievement award
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.
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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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