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September 19, 2023	Improving Software Developer Mental Well-Being and Productivity
September 19, 2023	UCI in Top 10 for Game Simulation/Development and Software Engineering; Top 30 for Computer Science UCI News Campus also rates highly for social mobility of its graduating students
September 18, 2023	Mohsen Imani Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
September 13, 2023	New Findings on CAPTCHAs Attract Worldwide Attention
September 12, 2023	ICS Summer Academy 2023: An ‘Incredible’ College Experience for High School Students
September 12, 2023	Daniel Epstein Earns Early Career Development (CAREER) Award to Explore Self-Tracking Engagement
September 6, 2023	Ask the Experts: Artificial Intelligence and Education UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement Quoted: Paul Dourish
September 5, 2023	‘The future of public health’: CSULB and UCI reach minority students with informatics program Signal Tribune Quoted: Kai Zheng and recent UCI graduate Letsy Cahue-Flores
August 29, 2023	Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars NPR Quoted: CS Ph.D. candidate Ziwen Wan
August 28, 2023	Alumni Spotlight: From Cancer to Climate Change, Peter Sadowski Applies Machine Learning to Address Real-World Problems
August 24, 2023	Alumni couple Paul and Jo Butterworth to receive UC Irvine’s Extraordinarius award UCI News Philanthropists will be among 24 honorees at Lauds & Laurels event
August 22, 2023	Mandt Appointed Program Chair for AISTATS 2024
August 17, 2023	A Productive Partnership: Entrepreneur Craig Caryl and the ICS Capstone Program
August 16, 2023	‘Recrafting Soft Technologies’ Course Offers Tangible Lessons in Computer Science
August 10, 2023	Bots are better at beating ‘are you a robot?’ tests than humans are New Scientist
August 10, 2023	High School Students Perform Real-World Analytics During Data Science for All Program
August 10, 2023	Why Everyone's Worried About Their Attention Span—and How to Improve Yours TIME Magazine Re: Gloria Mark interviewed
August 3, 2023	Ph.D. Candidate William Dunkel Heads to Seoul as Fulbright Fellow
July 31, 2023	Summer School for STEM Faculty: A Boot Camp in Bayesian Thinking
July 26, 2023	Tsudik Delivers Keynote at ICCCN 2023
July 18, 2023	UCI Researchers Receive $600,000 Grant From the Cyrus Tang Foundation UCI News Re: Zhaoxia Yu UCI Researchers Receive $600,000 Grant From the Cyrus Tang Foundation
July 18, 2023	ICS Researchers Receive Best Paper Award at Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium
July 17, 2023	Yes, People Who Are Blind Can Be Software Engineers UC Irvine’s Accessibility Research Collective works to shatter assumptions and empower people with disabilities.
July 7, 2023	More self-managed abortion internet searches in states with restrictions vs. without Healio Quoted: Sean Young
July 6, 2023	Sang-Woo Jun’s Work Selected for ISCA’s 25-Year Retrospective
June 29, 2023	Third Annual ICS Project Expo: Supporting the Tech Talent Pipeline
June 28, 2023	Beall Butterworth Competition Results Announced
June 28, 2023	Is the ‘internet apocalypse’ nigh? Breaking down the solar-storm science. The Washington Post Re: Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi interviewed
June 27, 2023	New Book - Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children MIT Press Re: New book coedited by Mizuko Ito Essays on the challenges and risks of designing algorithms and platforms for children, with an emphasis on algorithmic justice, learning, and equity.
June 26, 2023	2023 ICS Commencement: Centering Humanity
June 23, 2023	UC Irvine to Compete at World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest
June 22, 2023	Cheng Zhang Receives Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
June 22, 2023	Hireability Gaps and Frictions Between University Game Programs and Industry Hires [2023] International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Re: Study by Nika Nour, Constance Steinkuehler and Garrison Wells
June 21, 2023	2023 Southern California Software Engineering Symposium Unites Industry and Academia
June 21, 2023	Breaking Barriers: VenusHacks 2023 Empowers Women in Computing
June 20, 2023	Faculty and Staff Honored at 2023 ICS Awards Celebration
June 20, 2023	Stanislaw Jarecki Named Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research
June 15, 2023	Games as Social Platforms ACM Games Research & Practice Re: By Constance Steinkuehler (originally posted March 3, 2023) Constance Steinkuehler argues in this opinion piece that online game companies can and should be included in new social media regulations.
June 14, 2023	Muhammad Twaha Ibrahim Awarded Link Foundation Fellowship
June 13, 2023	Bringing emotional intelligence to artificial intelligence UCI News UCI alumni siblings Karishma and Pratyush Muthukumar '22 to present at UN’s AI for Good 2023 global summit.
June 13, 2023	QT STEM: A Safe Space for LGBTQ+ Students in STEM at UCI
June 12, 2023	What happens if AI grows smarter than humans? The answer worries scientists. Popular Science Re: Sameer Singh interviewed
June 12, 2023	Celebrating Dr. Jazette Johnson and Dr. Lucretia Williams: An Important First in Informatics
June 9, 2023	SoCal Data Science Program to Expand Its Reach With $1.3M Grant
June 8, 2023	Bandwidth: Guard it Like Your Life Depends on it KUCI, Ask A Leader Podcast Re: Gloria Mark Interviewed
June 8, 2023	Fritz Onion, M.S. ’93: An Inspiration for Giving Back
June 7, 2023	On the Road to Internet Adoption, a Cryptographic Protocol Helps Secure 2 Billion WhatsApp Users
June 5, 2023	Senior Spotlight: Jumanah Almajnouni Ready to Hit the Ground Running as a Software Engineer
June 1, 2023	Connected Wellbeing Initiative to Build Understanding and Action Regarding Teens’ Technology Use and Their Mental Health
May 31, 2023	AIStory: Leveraging Generative AI for Culturally Responsive Learning
May 30, 2023	TikTok Creators’ Financial Info, Social Security Numbers Have Been Stored In China Forbes Quoted: Bryan Cunningham (CPRI)
May 24, 2023	Alumni Spotlight: Nenad Medvidović’s Serendipitous Journey to Success in Academia
May 23, 2023	#IamUCI – Jazette Johnson UCI News Q&A with Class of 2023 graduate Jazette Johnson, Ph.D., informatics
May 23, 2023	CMU Researcher Uses ChatGPT To Execute Computer Tasks CMU News Quoted: Pierre Baldi Large Language Models Can Solve Computer Tasks Using Keyboard, Mouse Actions
May 22, 2023	ICS and Engineering Schools Induct Six into 2023 Hall of Fame
May 22, 2023	Ph.D. Student Alagappan Ramanathan Named Internet Society Pulse Research Fellow
May 17, 2023	ACM Honors Ramesh Jain with Distinguished Service Award
May 17, 2023	Ph.D. Student Christina Magana-Ramirez Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
May 11, 2023	Ph.D. Student Fangqi Liu Named a 2023 Rising Star in Cyber-Physical Systems
May 10, 2023	The Power of Health Informatics
May 8, 2023	UCI Podcast: If you can't pay attention, you're not alone UCI News Re: Interview with Gloria Mark Gloria Mark explains why we’re distracted and how to fight it
May 5, 2023	Senior Spotlight: GDIM Major Matthew Knight Presses Start on His Game Development Career
May 4, 2023	Data@UCI Embarks on Data Science Adventures in Inaugural Datathon
May 1, 2023	The Connected Arts Learning Framework: An Expanded View of the Purposes and Possibilities for Arts Learning Philanthropy News Digest Re: Report coauthored by Mizuko Ito and Kylie Peppler
April 25, 2023	UCI’s Graduate Programs Shine in U.S. News & World Report Rankings UCI News Computer Science graduate program is in the top 20 among public universities.
April 25, 2023	Delving into The Privilege of Play
April 20, 2023	Mohammad Moshirpour Receives 2023 APEGA Summit Award for Excellence in Education
April 20, 2023	Student Spotlight: Dylan Riffle Explores Intersection of Computer Science, Biology and Agriculture
April 19, 2023	Back-to-Back Wins Send ICS Grad Students to Microsoft Imagine Cup World Championship