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Jeffrey Ma is putting what he learned at the Bren School to full use at ARM, an intellectual property company specializing in mobile low-power, low-cost RISC processors.
“I work on the software development of a System-on-Chip design and simulation tool, which allows chip designers to build virtual embedded platforms,” Ma said. “I specialize in bus protocol translation across layers as well as cosimulation synchronization of our tool with other hardware simulators.”
Ma, who graduated in 2003 with a B.S. in Information and Computer Sciences from the Bren School, also earned his Masters in ICS from UCI in 2005.
“The B.S. degree helped establish basic software development skills while the M.S. degree helped me specialize in embedded systems,” Ma said.
Ma credits ICS 171 Artificial Intelligence, with providing him the practical concepts he would later employ in his job as the class required him to apply all his skills to write smart Artificial Intelligence programs in head-to-head competition with his classmates.
Ma stresses that current students need to find something that ignites their passion and look for jobs and projects that hone their expertise in that field so they can stand out from others.
Although he has fond memories of skipping class to shoot pool and indulges in a brew or two at the Anthill Pub in the student center, Ma hardly recognizes his old stomping grounds since the recently completed student center renovation.
In his free time, Ma likes to modify cars and express his views on programming and tech on his blog, www.coderetard.com.
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When I took 171, back around 1979, it was taught by James Meehan, who was a young (assistant?) professor (Yale, Ph.D. 1976). His dissertation, “The Metanovel: Writing Stories by Computer,” was the source of the Lisp program “Tale-Spin.” His advisor at Yale was Roger Schank.
When I went to grad school in Berkeley, I took my AI from another of Roger Schank’s student, Robert Wilensky (Yale, Ph.D. 1978). His dissertation was “Understanding Goal-Based Stories.”
So, when I studed AI at Irvine and Berkeley ca. 1978-1982, it was all focused on natual language and Lisp.