UCLA Computer Science 101

Computer science is a branch of engineering that encompasses the design, modeling, analysis, and applications of computer systems. Its study at UCLA provides education at the undergraduate and graduate levels necessary to understand, design, implement, and use the software and hardware of digital computers and digital systems.
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UCLA Computer Science 101

Computer science is concerned with the design, modeling, analysis, and applications of computer systems. Its study at UCLA provides education at the undergraduate and graduate levels necessary to understand, design, implement, and use the software and hardware of digital computers and digital systems.
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UCLA Samueli
Computer Science
Engineering VI

wei wangWei Wang
Department Chair

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Computer Science Affiliates Program (CSAP)

University of California, Los Angeles

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Six UCLA CS Doctoral Students Named Amazon AI Fellows

  Six doctoral students from the Computer Science Department are among the fifteen students from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering who have been selected as Amazon AI Ph.D. fellows through the company’s new $68 million program supporting more than 100...

First Generation UCLA CS Student Secures NVIDIA Internship

First Generation UCLA CS Student Secures NVIDIA Internship

Growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Wanda Barahona rarely had access to computers. But those early glimpses of technology sparked a curiosity that would eventually lead her to internships at Lockheed Martin and Nvidia, two of the world’s top tech companies....

AI For Math Fund Awards Raghu Meka

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Computer Science Professor Raghu Meka, along with his collaborator, Princeton Professor Pravesh Kothari, have been awarded support from the AI for Math Fund, which is managed by Renaissance Philanthropy in partnership with founding donor XTX Markets. Their project...

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Faculty members discuss impact of AI on academic research

Faculty members discuss impact of AI on academic research

More than 150 UCLA faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students attended or tuned in to the livestream of Research in the Age of AI Symposium, which was held Feb. 15 at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. “This is really going to change the...

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