UCLA’s Chris Mattmann is the first chief data and AI officer in the UC system
The position is one of just a handful in existence across American universities.
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Results
UCLA engineers become 6-time RoboCup soccer world champions
Team RoMeLa’s robot athletes knocked out four opponents in six matches at an international tournament held in the Netherlands.
Creating a world of good through the power of AI
Mario Peng Lee seeks to improve lives through technology — and help others do the same.
3 UCLA faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences
Zvi Bern, a theoretical physicist, and Leonard Kleinrock, one of the early pioneers of the internet, were recognized for their distinguished original research.
5 UCLA faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Ann Carlson, Jason Cong, Tyrone Howard, Thomas Smith and Paul Taylor are among 250 artists, scholars, scientists and leaders chosen this year.
Excavating women’s history from the archives
By transcribing a once-forgotten scientist’s writings, a UCLA doctoral candidate is teaching students about female representation in STEM.
How AI discriminates and what that means for your Google habit
UCLA’s Safiya Noble discusses how the technology’s growth is shaping our lives and livelihoods — and not always for the better.
UCLA honored as a top producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars for 2023–24
Six faculty members and researchers are conducting projects from Botswana to Japan, expanding and deepening the university’s global engagement.
Ghost Story
How a UCLA computer scientist discovered a missing link in the long and tangled story of human evolution.
The UCLA Research Park: Quantum science and engineering
The quantum innovation hub will produce advances in computing, sensing and other areas while training a new workforce for the burgeoning field.
GPT-3 can reason about as well as a college student, UCLA psychologists report
The question remains: Does the technology mimic human reasoning or is it using a fundamentally new cognitive process?
Can AI and creativity coexist?
UCLA professors Jacob Foster and Danny Snelson weigh in on how artificial intelligence might influence and invigorate writing, art and culture.
A Victorian-era computer pioneer gets to speak for herself
Ada Lovelace published the first description of a computer program; a UCLA doctoral student is using AI to reveal her forgotten story.
ARTEMIS – UCLA’s most advanced humanoid robot – gets ready for action
The machine, developed by a robotics lab at UCLA Engineering, will take part in an international competition in July.
UCLA Geffen Academy student named finalist in Regeneron Science Talent Search
August Deer, whose research helped speed up a machine learning technique, is the only finalist from the Los Angeles area.
Watch: TV show ‘Artbound’ puts artist Lauren Lee McCarthy and NFTs in the spotlight
The associate professor of design media arts has focused on exploring how technology has become so interwoven into our lives and society.
UCLA-led team develops new approach for building quantum computers
Scientists have developed small molecules that protect the “quantumness” of qubits, an innovative step that could help to scale up processing power.
Can computers understand complex words and concepts?
Research by UCLA, MIT and NIH scientists finds that a machine learning system organizes knowledge in a “very intuitive structure.”
Digital Prometheus: Artist Refik Anadol imbues artificial intelligence with creativity
Alumnus of UCLA’s design media arts program shares the inspiration behind some of his awe-inspiring projects.
UCLA tops all universities in number of 2022 Sloan Research Fellows
Eight young UCLA professors are among 118 scientists and scholars selected today to receive the awards.
Four professors named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
The honorees are Nicholas Blurton-Jones, Joseph Loo, Rafail Ostrovsky and William Sandoval.
UCLA and Amazon join forces to create Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence
The center will engage UCLA faculty and Amazon AI specialists working to address society’s mot pressing challenges.
UCLA internet studies and race scholar Safiya Noble awarded MacArthur Fellowship
Working at the intersection of race, technology and justice, Noble is set to launch an empowerment nonprofit called the Equity Engine.
For digital artists, NFTs are promising – and problematic
UCLA design media arts faculty and alumni share their thoughts on the crypto-art craze.
AI Helps Break Down Conspiracy Theories
Computer engineers’ artificial intelligence tool helps users decide whether a narrative is true or false.