SCS faculty members Andrea Bajcsy, Fernando De La Torre and Maarten Sap have received Amazon Research Awards to advance reliability, safety and performance in emerging AI systems.

WeAudit helps users test AI tools to discover issues like biases that developers might have missed. For example, if a user prompts a generative AI tool to produce images of a nurse and a doctor, and ...

The area of approximation algorithms is aimed at giving provable guarantees on the performance of heuristics for hard problems. The course will present general techniques (such as convex ...

Research awards: Her research has earned her an Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the 2009 Carnegie Science Center's Emerging Female Scientist Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Best Paper Award, the 2001 UCSB ...

While at DARPA, I was unable to write for my blog. But watch this space for new posts, as soon as I get settled at Microsoft.

It responds to a specific set of instructions in a well-defined manner. It can execute a prerecorded list of instructions (a program). It can quickly store and retrieve large amounts of data.

The lowest level of auditing in Scientology consists of what are called the "objective processes." These are often programmed for a newcomer to Scientology after he has completed the introductory ...

My research goals are to advance the science of how people interact and learn with adaptive, AI-based learning technologies, and to advance the design and engineering of these technologies.

The most precious resource in a computer system is no longer its processor, memory, disk or network. Rather, it is a resource not subject to Moore's law: User Attention. Today's systems distract a ...

Force: an agent or influence that, if applied to a free body results chiefly in an acceleration of the body and sometimes in elastic deformation and other effects. Every day we deal with forces of one ...

This short course is a quick review of linear algebra, intended for students who have already taken a previous course in linear algebra or have some experience with vectors and matrices. The goal of ...

Introduction to Computer Systems; Schedule15-213/18-213/15-513: Intro to Computer Systems, Fall 2017 Notes on links pptx links are to Powerpoint versions of the ...