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UW ECE students learn how to pack powerful technology into tiny electronic devices

University of Washington's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering spotlighted ACTION Co-PI Radha Poovendran's TinyML course, taught through the UW Professional Master's Program (PMP). The course represents one aspect of the ACTION Institute's continued educational outreach.

ACTION Seminar: Teodora Baluta

Unforgeability in Stochastic Gradient Descent

Teodora Baluta 
Computer Science
National University of Singapore

A Capture the Flag Competition (CTF) for High School and Undergraduate Students

With sponsorship from the ACTION Institute, the 2023 International Capture the Flag (iCTF) competition will incorporate themes around artificial intelligence and will have tracks for both high school students (iCTFhi) and undergraduate students (iCTFun). This novel security competition is being organized by Shellphish and the UCSB Women in Computer Science group.

UCSB Responsible ML Summit 2023

The ACTION Institute will co-sponsor UCSB's Center for Responsible Machine Learning 2023 Summit. 

Responsible Generative AI: Opportunities, Challenges and Ethics This year's summit will cover topics including: Ethical and Legal Issues in Copyright, Societal Impacts of Generative AI, Co-existing with AI: The Human Alignment Problem, as well as algorithmic solutions to these problems.

Live stream: https://youtube.com/live/4ho3nvX7fjs

Column on new AI Institutes is now published in AI Magazine

A column, co-authored by Ashok Goel and Jim Donlon, and introducing the seven new NSF AI Institutes, is now published in AAAI's AI Magazine. The column provides a brief overview of each of the new institutes, as well as an overview of the AI Virtual Organization (AIVO), which was formed to strengthen the network of AI institutes and help them expand.

The column describes the ACTION Institute: 

Mustafa Suleyman to speak at UCSB

While this may not be an ACTION sponsored event, it's surely something that will interest everyone in the institute.

Giovanni Vigna interviewed on KEYT News

Professor Giovanni Vigna was interviewed on KEYT News to comment on California Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order to prepare the state for the progress of Artificial Intelligence. Local reporter Mina Wahab conducted the interview, which can be read at KEYT.com.

Acknowledgement from Congressman Salud Carbajal

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 5, 2023
Contact: Ian Mariani | 202-225-9926

Carbajal: UCSB’s Selection as New National ‘AI’ Research Institute Another Proof Point that Central Coast is Leading in Emerging Fields

UCSB is receiving $5,300,000 federal grant to spearhead research into use of AI in cybersecurity and privacy