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	Spring 2012
Spotlight ICS Day 2012   Organized by student leaders, the daylong event features coding competitions, a whiteboard challenge, dance crews, carnival games and the ever-popular dunk tank.  View Video Features Lauds & Laurels   Senior research scientist Walt Scacchi (PhD '81) receives the Bren School's Distinguished Alumnus Award. Read More   Budding entrepreneurs   A team of undergraduates takes home the 9th Annual Butterworth Product Development Competition $5,000 grand prize. Read More   AppJam champs   It's all smiles for Team Socially Awkward Anteaters, winners of the latest "build an app in a week" tournament. Read More   Franz wins IEEE award   IEEE Computer Society honors professor Michael Franz with a Technical Achievement Award for his pioneering contributions. Read More   Email = stress   Findings by professor Gloria Mark and scientist Stephen Voida could boost on-the-job productivity. Read More   Projects galore   Annual event highlights student innovations, from virtual learning tools to smartphone-enabled home automation. Read More   Dean’s Message   Our just-concluded spring quarter has been a season of recognition for faculty, students and alumni of the Bren School of ICS. You may have read or heard news coverage of Professor Gloria Mark’s study of email in the workplace. Gloria and her collaborators found that email “vacations” decreased stress and boosted productivity... Read More   Save the Date ALUMNI EVENT  July 19, 2012 Google Irvine ICS ALUMNI: Details will be sent via email. Please be on the lookout for the invitation! News   UCI team earns prize for best educational game Faculty, alum win SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award Student Receives Yahoo! Labs award Professor Olson delivers 2012 Athena Lecture Two students receive prestigious NSF fellowship Bren School hosts annual AP Stats project competition   Giving   Support Student Scholarships Did you know Bren School undergraduates traditionally boast some of the highest mean SAT scores on campus? With your help, we can continue to attract the best and brightest to UCI. Please consider making a gift to the ICS Annual Giving fund today. Your contribution, in any amount, will benefit deserving students.

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