UCI Cybersecurity Group To Help Counter Threats
Orange County Business Journal
Faculty Innovation Fellowship Program Welcomes Second Cohort
UCI Beall Applied Innovation
Re: Theresa Tanenbaum namedUC Irvine Receives $10.4 million for art history, inclusive computing
Philanthropy News Digest
UC Irvine receives $10.4-million donation for art history, center for inclusive computing
The Los Angeles Times
Re: ICS alumnus Vincent StecklerUCI Gets $10.4M for Computer Sciences, Art
Orange County Business Journal
Re: ICS alumnus Vincent StecklerAlumnus Vincent Steckler ’80 and his wife donate $10.4 million to UCI
UCI News
Gift will support art history students, create ICS center promoting inclusiveness
Neil Sahota of UC Irvine: “As leaders,we are responsible for the inclusion of our employees. “
Thrive Global
Re: ICS AlumnusUCI researchers use deep learning to identify gene regulation at single-cell level
UCI News
Quoted: Xiaohui XieIEEE Computer Society Announces 2021 Fellows
IEEE
Re: Sharad Mehrotra namedACM Recognizes 2020 Distinguished Members for Contributions that Propel the Digital Age
Re: Gillian Hayes and Shahrad Mehrotra namedExpanding Technology Access to Support People with Visual Disabilities During the Pandemic
UCI researchers collaborate with Toyota to provide Aira, a visual interpreter service, to local community members.
Where the Teens Are Hanging Out in Quarantine
Bloomberg
Quoted: Mimi ItoHow Roblox became the ‘it’ game for tweens — and a massive business
CNN
Quoted: Katie Salen TekinbaşUCI Forecasts COVID-19 Trends in OC
Orange County Business Journal
Keeping Up with Coronavirus Statistics
KUCI Office Hours Podcast
Re: Vladimir Minin interviewedRaising Good Gamers: New Report Tackles the Systemic Forces Shaping the Climate of Online Play for Youth
Connected Learning Blog
Informatics Professor Katie Salen Tekinbaş talks about the release of a new report, “Raising Good Gamers: Envisioning an Agenda for Diversity, Inclusion, and Fair Play.”
EA, Microsoft and Epic Games join Raising Good Gamers’ advisory board
gamesindustry.biz
Re: Connected Learning Lab108 ICS students, 7 faculty and staff to attend 2020 Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference
Female students attend on BRAID Initiative funding award.
What Should Recess — and Play — Look Like in a Socially Distanced World?
EdSurge
Quoted: Katie Salen TekinbaşHow to get an internship at a top technology firm
eFinancialCareers
Re: Melissa Mazmanian study citedIncreasing Corporate Contributions to Social Good: An Interactive Simulation
Informatics Professor Bill Tomlinson worked with a team of researchers to conduct an interactive simulation with 500 participants on the implementation and impact of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act.
ICS Statistics Researchers Release New Online ‘OC COVID Situation Report’
A new website reports on the spread of COVID-19 in Orange County and forecasts future trends.
Colleges reopen with an assist from tech
Workflow
Quoted: Sharad MehrotraBeyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with Sameer Singh
TWIML AI Podcast
Ideal, Perfect, Ultimate: What Drives Parents to Seek the Unattainable?
The New York Times
Quoted: Melissa MazmanianHow Fan Fiction Inspires Kids to Read and Write and Write and Write
KQED
Quoted: Rebecca BlackNext Generation Schooling: Changing the Story with Nithin Jilla, Founder of Dreams for Schools (video)
Changing the Story
Re: ICS alumnus Nithin Jilla interviewedMillions of students are returning to US universities in a vast unplanned pandemic experiment
Nature
Quoted: Sharad MehrotraColleges look to apps that screen for virus symptoms and trace contacts
Education Dive
Quoted: Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Sharad MehrotraUC Irvine Debuts County Comparison Site (video)
CBS News Los Angeles
UCI releases COVID-19 website
Orange County Business Journal
Data Glitch Confounds Coronavirus Totals In Orange County, State
Yahoo News
Quoted: Vladimir MininBeneficial Aspects of Social Media Use Among Children and Adolescents
Scientific Inquirer
Quoted: Mimi ItoMore than work: Finding focus in the digital age
Thrive Global
Re: Gloria Mark citedPermanent WFH sounds great. But it’s harder than it sounds
CNN
Quoted: Judith OlsonCovid Crimes: Espionage, Hackers And Why America Is Vulnerable
Forbes
Quoted: Bryan CunninghamPublishers: let transgender scholars correct their names
Nature
Re: written by Theresa TanenbaumGeekED: Re-storied: Re-imagining Creative Privilege (CCEL)
Comic-Con@Home 2020
Re: Tess Tanenbaum featured as panelistRepositioning A.I. For Social Good
The Tech Talks Daily Podcast
Re: ICS alumnus Neil Sahota interviewedWorking together, apart can be fraught with misunderstanding
The Irish Times
Quoted: Judith and Gary OlsonThese 10+ Software Engineering Schools Produce The Best IT Professionals In The US
DesignRush
Re: UCI ICS ranked #1Publishers Develop Inclusive Name-Change Policies
The Scientist
Quoted: Tess TanenbaumUCI Uses Campus Wi-Fi to Test COVID-19 Contact Tracing App
Health IT Analytics
Quoted: Sharad Mehrotra and Nalini VenkatasubramanianAI researchers create testing tool to find bugs in NLP from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
VentureBeat
Re: Sameer Singh research citedUCI researchers use campus as test bed for coronavirus contact tracing system
UCI News
Wi-Fi-based application expected to be transferable to other universities and beyond
Teen Use of Social Media for Social Support – Tips to Optimize Benefits
Psych Central
Re: Mimi Ito citedHow to Work Effectively From Home: Tips From an Expert (video)
NBC San Diego
Quoted: Judith OlsonFive UCI junior faculty named Hellman Fellows for 2020-21
UCI News
Re: Sameer Singh named2019-2020 NSF-REU on Community Organizations, Data Justice, and Law
UCI School of Social Sciences News
Quoted: Roderic CrooksFindings, Experiences, and Reflections of Undergraduate Researchers
Social media offers students a ‘lifeline’ in age of anxiety
University Business
Re: Mimi Ito citedWhat America Asks of Working Parents Is Impossible
The Atlantic
Quoted: Melissa MazmanianGet A Comfortable Chair: Permanent Work From Home Is Coming
NPR
Quoted: Judith OlsonAt-Home Workers Face Hacking Threat
Orange County Business Journal
Quoted: CPRI executive director Bryan CunninghamTabellion Provides Secure Legal Contracts on Mobile Devices
Quoted: Ardalan Amiri SaniNSF advances frontiers of cybersecurity research
National Science Foundation
UCI to lead $10 million NSF-funded center on protecting personal data privacy
UCI News
Quoted: Gene TsudikResearchers will address technical, social and policy challenges of networked world
A New Perspective on Technology and the Realities of Work-Life Balance
Re: Melissa Mazmanian's book Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital AgeNewly funded COVID-19 research aims to protect the most vulnerable
University of California News
Quoted: Sean YoungMaking distance learning work
Bold
Re: written by Gillian HayesOwn the AI Revolution with Neil Sahota (ICS Alumnus)
Future Squared (podcast)
With Tech On Our Side, We Can Beat This Crisis
Forbes
Quoted: Informatics alumna LouAnne BoydWhy Time Signals Still Matter When Working Remotely
MIT Sloan Management Review
IFIP Names First Cohort of Fellows
IFIP News
Re: Gene Tsudik and Michael Franz namedGlobal ICT Professional Body Recognises Contributions of 18 High Achieving Members
Screen time use sparks discussion over how much is too much
University Business
Quoted: Mimi ItoResearcher Spotlight: Dr. Babak Shahbaba
UCI Brain
Social video games to play during the coronavirus quarantine
The Conversation
Mentioned: Constance SteinkuehlerAmid COVID-19 Travel Restrictions, World’s Leading Computing Society Releases Report on Best Practices for Virtual Conferences
ACM
Mentioned: Crista Lopes and Gary OlsonUC Irvine's new coronavirus map shows sentiment on Twitter
EdScoop
Quoted: Chen LiWe Need to Stop Trying to Replicate the Life We Had
The Atlantic
Quoted: Melissa MazmanianOnline COVID-19 diaries are helping people cope. They’re also a research gold mine
Los Angeles Times
Quoted: Sean YoungCoronavirus Twitter map developed at UCI displays social media reactions to COVID-19
UCI News
Quoted: Chen Li3 Ways to Stay Social While Social Distancing (video)
The List TV
Quoted: Melissa MazmanianExploring chemical space: Can AI take us where no human has gone before?
Chemical & Engineering News
Quoted: Pierre BaldiSteinkuehler to keynote Academic Esports Conference
University Business
Interview with CPRI Director Bryan Cunningham
Critical Mass Radio Show and Podcast
The Art of Socializing During a Quarantine
The Atlantic
Quoted: Melissa MazmanianOrange County Entrepreneurs Come Together to Share Experiences
UCI Beall Applied Innovation
Quoted: Gillian HayesStudy of Technologies in a Leaderless Movement Receives Honorable Mention at CHI 2020
Mentioned: Bonnie NardiProfile of ICS Alumna Kimberly Hermans
Confident Gamma Phi Beta
As remote work tools deploy, next task is behavioral
TechTarget
Quoted: Judy OlsonInclusive and Engaged HCI
ACM Interactions
Re: written by Gillian HayesCelebrating Rising Undergraduate Women in Statistics and Data Science
Amstat News
Mentioned: Data Science Undergraduate Taneisha AroraWhy chasing ‘inbox zero’ is a waste of time
Yahoo Style
Mentioned: Gloria MarkThis Technique Uses AI to Fool Other AIs
Wired
Quoted: Sameer SinghDisney Research develops AI-enhanced video compression model
TVBEurope
Quoted: Stephan MandtUCI and Disney Research scientists develop AI-enhanced video compression model
UCI News
Quoted: Stephan MandtEmbodied: How Online Gaming Creates Real-Life Love
North Carolina Public Radio WUNC
Mentioned: Tess TanenbaumOur war with Iran did not start or end with the killing of Soleimani (video)
NBCNews Think
Quoted: CPRI executive director Bryan CunninghamStacey Nicholas Donates $5 Million to UCI in Support of Diversity and Inclusiveness
Gift will aid recruitment, retention, graduation of underrepresented STEM students
Reflections on a Decade of Engaged Scholarship–The Final Report from the Connected Learning Research Network
Connected Learning Alliance
Interview with Informatics Associate Professor Kylie Peppler
UCI School of Education
3 Ways to Unleash High-Impact Work in 2020
Inc.
Mentioned: Gloria Mark
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ICS News
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