Alex Nicolau, chair and Distinguished Professor of computer science, has been admitted to the Academia Europaea. Founded in 1988, the academy comprises esteemed scientists and scholars who collectively aim to promote learning, education and research. Nominated by their peers for sustained academic excellence in their fields, members – who have included 73 Nobel laureates and six Turing Award winners – […]
UCI’s Anastasia Shuba won the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award at the 2018 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July. Her manuscript, “NoMoAds: Effective & Efficient Cross-App Mobile Ad-Blocking,” was selected based on “scientific quality and expected impact on the field.” The paper describes a technology to prevent pop-up advertisements from […]
Building will foster collaborative research in engineering, physical sciences and computing
Michael Goodrich, UCI Chancellor’s Professor of computer science, has been elected as a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences & Letters. Goodrich is a leader in the field of algorithm design, where he is highly recognized for research in geometric computing, networking, geographic information systems, computer security and big data processing. His […]
UCI is fielding a team of computer gamers to compete in this year’s Heroes of the Dorm tournament, starting today. The UCI Dream Eaters are the top-seeded squad among 64 bracketed opponents who will play in elimination rounds leading up to the finals, to be held May 12 at Blizzard Arena in Burbank. Teams of […]
Initiative will focus on creation of ‘information processing factory’ computer chips
Distinction honors contributions to research, education and practice
UCI Applied Innovation smooths the way for Anteater research to become commercial products and benefit society
Harry Xu, associate professor of computer science at UCI, and UCLA colleagues have been awarded $4.9 million from the Office of Naval Research to support their work on reducing software inefficiencies. The four-year grant will fund the development of software customization techniques that can greatly reduce the redundancies and waste in modern, object-oriented big data […]
Unlikely UCI trio designs educational computer game that immerses players in 19th-century Ghana