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Congratulations to Professor Miryung Kim for receiving the Robert M. Stevenson Faculty in Residence Award! Read more about it here: ucla.in/2Oayoqd

Definitely not to be missed! @CS_UCLA Prof Judea Pearl's take on #AI and the importance of factoring in cause and effect. Insightful interview by @KSHartnett in @QuantaMagazine. #machinelearning #artificalintelligence

Curious about the future of Human-Robot Collaboration? Watch this Microsoft Research Talk with @BrownCSDept's Stefanie Tellex to hear how robots can learn to perceive the objects most relevant to a human’s goals: aka.ms/AA1tmf8

Congratulations to CS Ph.D. student Muhammad Gulzar for winning the gold medal at the ICSE Student Research Competition! Read more about his research on interactive and automated debugging for big data analytics here: ucla.in/2NlD8Ip

Four of our computer science professors have ranked within the top 100 computer scientists in the U.S. - read more about their work here: ucla.in/2NfMtRR

Java, C, and C++ are the most popular programming languages in the world, says the Tiobe Index: bit.ly/2KMinIQ

The 5 stages of debugging, explained. (credit: Sourcecode) #fridayfeels

This week the Bruin Code Summer Academy at @UCLA in partnership with @URBANTxT is in full-swing for our 8th-10th students from Horace Mann UCLA School! Today students toured campus and began building websites- plus watched and analyzed pitches by MBA students at @UCLAAnderson.

Microsoft researchers found that users can achieve a higher success rate & lower task completion time with interactive natural language interfaces. Learn more about the #SIGIR2018 paper & see how they're democratizing APIs with natural language interfaces: aka.ms/AA1pr3s

"Algorithms Behind Modern Storage Systems," by Alex Petrov (@ifesdjeen ) in @ACMQueue, takes a closer look at two storage system design approaches used in a majority of modern databases and describes their use cases and tradeoffs: ow.ly/9qUu30kLtNN

BREAKING: MIT unveils the newest version of its robotic cheetah, which can jump almost 3 feet in the air: bit.ly/2MOxi24 (v/@mitmeche)

Congratulations to Professor Kai-Wei Chang for winning the 2018 Okawa Research Grant! Read more about it here: ucla.in/2MGoiMr

At first, they laughed at her. Back then, there was hardware, mechanical, & aerospace engineering. But in the 1960s, software was hardly the stuff of serious engineering. That's when Margaret Hamilton used software design to get Apollo 11 to the moon. publications.computer.org/software-magaz…

Happy birthday to #AlanTuring, the creator of modern computing. Here he is w/his portrait algorithmically approximated by ellipses: bit.ly/28NTTv4 (v/@Wired, photo: @jeremyjkun)

An ACM #websci18 Best Student Paper, "Analyzing Right-wing YouTube Channels: Hate, Violence and Discrimination." ow.ly/FJdm30kzeb0

#TheMorningPaper takes a look at a work on Conflictjs, a tool for identifying conflicting #JavaScript libraries, from ACM @ICSEconf. #Conflictjs is open source and nicely documented. Check it out yourself: ow.ly/g9J730kAfdk Read today’s entry: ow.ly/d3NS30kAfc3

Dear Class of 2018, You did it! And we are so proud.💙💛 Love, UCLA | #UCLA2018

Congratulations to the Class of 2018 from Dean @JayathiMurthy and the entire UCLA Samueli team! 🎉🎓#engineerchange | #UCLA2018

Congratulations to both @UCLAACM and UCLA UPE for receiving chapter excellence awards from their respective organizations! Read more about the clubs and their involvement on campus here: ucla.in/2sw0nrf

Congratulations to all of our computer science students who were awarded with HSSEAS commencement awards and honors! See the awardees here: ucla.in/2LGBe4W