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Samueli School’s Engineering+ Society Institute to Focus on AI

July 15, 2025 Samueli School Dean Magnus Egerstedt announced that the Engineering+ Society Institute will focus on “Engineering AI for Society” with Athina Markopoulou as the institute’s inaugural director. Markopoulou is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and
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Researchers Uncover Cell Structures That Squids Use to Change Their Appearance

July 10, 2025 By examining squid skin cells three-dimensionally, a University of California, Irvine-led team has unveiled the structures responsible for the creatures’ ability to dynamically change their appearance from transparent to arbitrarily colored states. The group of scientist
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An AI That’s a Better Friend—And Maybe a Lifeline for Humanity

July 9, 2025 Most AI chatbots feel like a goldfish. You have a conversation, maybe even a deep one, and the next time you interact, it’s as if you never met. No memory, no continuity, just a blank slate. Bill Tomlinson, a professor at UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information and
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Fourth Director of CALIT2 Steps into Office

Professor Athina Markopoulou has been selected as the next director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at UC Irvine effective July 1.
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