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UC San Diego Professor Daniel Kane Awarded G'del Prize, Highest Theoretical Computer Science Honor
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (376+ words) University of California San Diego computer science and mathematics professor Daniel M. Kane has been awarded the 2026 G'del Prize, one of the highest honors in theoretical computer science. Kane is a professor in both the Department of Computer Science and Engineering…...
A key chapter in AI began here
1+ week, 1+ day ago (180+ words) Dean Carol Padden reflects on Jeff Elman's foresight and how big ideas in Social Sciences paved the way for AI " and are embedded in the school's DNA. Geoffrey Hinton was a postdoctoral student at UC San Diego during the early…...
UC San Diego Researcher Awarded LANL-UC Fellowship
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (414+ words) UC San Diego Today UC San Diego Researcher Awarded LANL-UC Fellowship Yuanyuan Shi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, has been awarded the Michael R. Anastasio…...
The Engineer Who Taught Cells to Behave
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1490+ words) Bernhard Palsson turns systems biology into tools for biomanufacturing and medicine On paper, Bernhard Palsson builds computer models. In practice, he builds a playbook to make living systems predictable enough to design and harness them for specific uses. His work…...
A Smarter Way for AI to Understand Text and Images
4+ mon, 9+ hour ago (373+ words) The work could give rise to more capable AI tutors that walk students through solutions step by step while checking their logic along the way. It could also provide more reliable automated analysis of business reports, complex charts or scientific…...
By Building Virtual Cells, Researchers Aim to Design Better Microbes and Drugs
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (487+ words) UC San Diego Today By Building Virtual Cells, Researchers Aim to Design Better Microbes and Drugs With new funding provided by prime contractor CFD Research Corporation as part of a new Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program, bioengineers at…...
How Data Science Will Change the World
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (621+ words) Newly appointed Dean Rajesh Gupta shares his thoughts on data science, AI and how UC San Diego's newest school is poised to redefine academia. As Rajesh K. Gupta, the newly appointed dean of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences…...
How Do We Reach Decisions? Researchers Pioneer AI Method to Uncover Cognitive Strategies
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (268+ words) New study deploys small neural networks in revealing how and why people make the decisions they make Researchers have long been interested in how humans and animals make decisions by focusing on trial-and-error behavior informed by recent information. However, the…...
When the Stakes are High, Do Machine Learning Models Make Fair Decisions?
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (358+ words) Machine learning is an integral part of high stakes decision making in a broad swath of human-computer interactions. You apply for a job. You submit a loan application. Algorithms determine who advances and who is declined." Computer scientists from the…...