The Lawfare Podcast: Chris Inglis (Bryan Cunningham Interviewed)

Chris Inglis, former National Cyber Director in the White House, sat down for his first interview as a private citizen with David Kris, Lawfare contributor and former assistant attorney general for the National Security Division, and Bryan Cunningham, Lawfare contributor and executive director of the University of California, Irvine’s Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute. They talked about a wide range of cyber topics, including the newly minted National Cyber Strategy, protection of critical infrastructure, cyber insurance, competition in the international front, and more.

Listen to the podcast: https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-chris-inglis

Singh Gives the Lowdown on ChatGPT in Popular Mechanics Article

Are you worried ChatGPT will take your job overnight? “It’s not happening,” says Computer Science Professor Sameer Singh of UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS). 

A recent Popular Mechanics article, “ChatGPT Is a ‘Very Sophisticated Guessing Engine’ That Probably Won’t Steal Your Job,” outlines how ChatGPT works. To gauge the prospects of the Open AI chatbot threatening people’s job security, author Matt Crisara reached out to Singh, an expert in machine learning and natural language processing.

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UC Irvine alumni Paul and Jo Butterworth pledge $35.5 million to Donald Bren School

Record gift will support programs fostering ICS student success and achievement

“I was considering not going to the university unless I received financial aid, because I didn’t have any money. But when UCI came through with a package to help out, that made all the difference in the world,” says alumnus Paul Butterworth, shown here with his wife, Jo Butterworth, also a UCI graduate. “This is what inspired us to pledge support for students – so they can follow their dreams despite their financial situations.” Roland Lane
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Singh Talks ChatGPT and More on Popular Machine Learning Podcast

The TWIML AI Podcast, originally launched by Sam Charrington in 2016 as This Week in Machine Learning & AI, is a popular podcast highlighting the “top minds and ideas from the world of ML and AI to a broad and influential community of ML/AI researchers, data scientists, engineers, and tech-savvy business and IT leaders.” On Jan. 23, 2023, Charrington sat down with a faculty member of UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) for a podcast titled, “AI Trends 2023: Natural Language Proc — ChatGPT, GPT-4 and Cutting Edge Research with Sameer Singh.”

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University of Colorado Boulder News: “ICS Alumna Leysia Palen recognized as rare ‘distinguished professor’ by CU system

Leysia Palen, professor in the Department of Computer Science and the founding chair of the Department of Information Science (2015-19), has been recognized as a distinguished professor, the highest recognition given by the University of Colorado system.

Since the award was established 45 years ago, only 136 professors have been recognized in this way across all four campuses.This rare distinction recognizes the three pillars of professorship: research, teaching and service. Palen said it was deeply meaningful to be awarded for all these dimensions she cares about.  

Read the full story on the University of Colorado Boulder website.

Irani Named ACM Fellow

On Jan. 18, 2023, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named 57 of its members ACM Fellows, including Computer Science Professor Sandy Irani of UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS). “The accomplishments of the 2022 ACM Fellows make possible the computing technologies we use every day,” reads the announcement, which recognizes Irani for contributions to the theory of online algorithms and quantum complexity theory.

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Software Engineering and Data Science Professional Master Programs Celebrate Capstone Successes

December 2022 concluded the 15-month journey of students in the master of software engineering (MSWE) and master of data science (MDS) programs. The two professional programs, offered by the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) at UC Irvine, culminate in a capstone project, ensuring students graduate with hands-on, real-world experience. For some, this meant helping a robot learn to dance; for others, it meant applying data analytics to support the health of newborn babies.

“Capstone projects play an integral role in the academic development of students pursuing a graduate degree,” says MDS Program Director Bryan Muñoz. “The capstones also benefit the sponsoring companies, allowing them to preview emerging talent from the School of ICS.”

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TechGuide: “Computer Science Degree Expert Advice with Aditi Majumder”

Aditi Majumder, UCI professor of computer science said, “Today computers are being used in every wake of life. Blue collar jobs are reducing while white collar ones that use computers are increasing. … the society is in need of a workforce that can build and sustain this infrastructure that keeps human life going today. Therefore, a bachelor’s in CS is in great demand today. … Programming and discrete mathematics are two key skills required in computer science.”

Read the full story at TechGuide.

Grand Opening of the HPI Research Center at UCI

As much of the world shut down in 2020, our digital reality continued to grow. So although the grand opening of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) Research Center in Machine Learning and Data Science at UC Irvine was on hold for two and half years, work to advance artificial intelligence persisted.

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