Informatics Ph.D. candidate Kate Ringland has received an ARCS Scholar Award for 2016-2017 from the National ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation Inc., which is a nonprofit national volunteer organization of women dedicated to providing scholarships to academically outstanding students who are pursuing degrees in science, medicine and engineering. The ARCS Scholar Awards are intended to recognize and reward UC Irvine’s most academically superior doctoral students exhibiting outstanding promise as scientists, researchers and leaders. Each school at UCI holds its own competition and selects its recipients of ARCS Scholar Awards annually. The recipients receive a $7,500 stipend per year for two years. Keep up the good work Kate!
Changing Academic Life: “Yunan Chen on getting tenure & negotiating motherhood”
October 9, 2016
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Malek awarded $499K by NSF for efficient analysis of evolving software systems
October 7, 2016
Associate Professor of Informatics Sam Malek (PI) and Assistant Project Scientist Hamid Bagheri (Co-PI) have been awarded $499,170 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their research on “Efficient Formal Analysis of Evolving Software Systems.” The three-year award comes from the NSF’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, which supports research and education projects that explore the foundations of computing and communication devices and their usage.
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Lopes, grad students win Best Paper Award at ICSME 2016
Informatics Professor Crista Lopes and two of her graduate students, Vaibhav Saini and Hitesh Sajnani, just won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE 32nd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2016) for their paper, “Comparing Quality Metrics for Cloned and Non-Cloned Java Methods: A Large Scale Empirical Study.”
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NSF awards Malek $130K for project to create an infrastructure for software architecture research
Associate Professor of Informatics Sam Malek (PI) and Assistant Project Scientist Joshua Garcia (Co-PI) have been awarded $130,000 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their research on “Planning and Prototyping a Community-Wide Software Architecture Instrument.” This is a joint two-year project with the University of Southern California and Rochester Institute of Technology. The award comes from the NSF’s Division of Computing and Network Systems, which supports research and education activities that invent new computing and networking technologies and that explore new ways to make use of existing technologies.
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Tomlinson to speak at University of Toronto Nov. 17
October 6, 2016
Informatics Professor Bill Tomlinson will speak about “Computing, Sustainability and Global Disruption” as part of the University of Toronto’s Department of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series on Nov. 17, 2016. Tomlinson’s talk will discuss his recent work in bringing computational tools to bear on problems of sustainability and disruption; in particular, describing a current research effort that seeks to enable a new approach to sustainable food security.
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Informatics professor attends White House summit on computer science initiative
September 20, 2016
UCI informatics professor Debra Richardson was at the White House last week for the Computer Science for All summit, a progress report on President Barack Obama’s call for greater resources and actions to encourage more students to learn about computing. Richardson heads UCI’s CS1C@OC program, which was created with funding from the National Science Foundation to produce 100 well-trained computer science teachers in Orange County by 2020.
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ICS study links selfies, happiness
September 13, 2016
Regularly snapping selfies with your smartphone and sharing photos with your friends can help make you a happier person, according to computer scientists at the University of California, Irvine. In a first-of-its-kind study published just before back-to-school season, the authors found that students can combat the blues with some simple, deliberate actions on their mobile devices.
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Bowker receives ASIS&T 2016 Best Information Science Book Award
September 8, 2016
Informatics Professor and Director of UC Irvine’s Values in Design Laboratory Geoffrey Bowker received the 2016 Best Information Science Book Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for Boundary Objects and Beyond: Working with Leigh Star. The book was co-edited with Stefan Timmermans (UCLA), Adele E. Clarke (UCLA) and Ellen Balka (Simon Fraser University).
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Huffington Post: “Agile Innovation for Jobs of The Future” (Mark quoted)
September 7, 2016
If we react to every single stimulus we receive, we will never get anything done.
For example, studies have indicated that on average three minutes pass by before an employee gets interrupted or switches to a new task. And usually after interruption it takes us around 23 minutes to get back to the state of flow and performance we had before the interruption.
Gloria Mark, professor at the University of California, Irvine elaborated on the aforementioned research results with the thought, ‘’We don’t have work days – we have work minutes that last all day.’’
Read the full story at Huffington Post.