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Gabriela Marcu, member of the Class of 2009, is giving back to ICS. Will you too?

Dear ICS Alum,
Forty years ago, ICS started its journey as an independent department with a handful of faculty and a small number of Ph.D. students. Today, as we celebrate the commencement of the Class of 2009, we have 73 faculty, [...]

Startup Lessons

Given it’s been a while I’ve contributed to this blog, I figured I’ll share my journey at CallFire. I’ve split it into three lessons:

Ignorance
Arrogance
Passion

I know some in the alumni community may disagree, so I’ll hasten to point out these are my personal observations, is by no means complete, and definitely not a prescription. [...]

Calling all Alumni!
The Bren School of ICS would like your feedback on planning an Alumni event celebrating 40 years of ICS.  Please take a minute to responde to this 10-question survey.  We appreciate your feedback!
Feel free to leave additional comments to this blog post.
Take the survey here.

Happy New Year!

photo credit: G i O 

Thank you

During this season of giving, we are grateful for the support of alumni like you!

Dear ICS Alum,
During this time of reflection, we are grateful for our relationship with alumni like you.
The strength of our research and the quality of our faculty and students are possible, in large part, because of the support of our ICS [...]

From putting people first,
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded UC Irvine a $1.7 million grant to create a new research institute focused on the growing use of mobile technology in providing banking and financial services to people in developing countries.
The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion will be the first to explore [...]

from the LA Times:

Game design has helped rekindle interest in computer science and become a hot new major at more than 200 schools across the country, according to the Entertainment Software Assn., a trade group. Because making games crosses several disciplines, the diversity of programs that offer such courses is staggering: Fine arts colleges, engineering [...]

Join our Facebook group

Hope everyone has thoroughly enjoyed their summers thus far and looking forward to the fall season. I want to highlight the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science has established a Facebook group as a valuable resource for all of us and I encourage you to join!  Why join?  It’s the simplest way to [...]

Make a difference today…

With the completion of another school year, Dean Debra J. Richardson sent this email last Friday updating alumni about the many successes the Bren School has achieved over the past academic year. The email also included a link to a video showing how our students are making the innovations of tomorrow today. Questions? E-mail alumni@ics.uci.edu [...]

Every year since 1986, the “Top 500″ Project has published a list of the world’s 500 most powerful computers, based on certain benchmarks. The June 2008 list, now available, also includes power consumption for the top 500 systems, the first time such data has been available.
The recently announced “Roadrunner” system at Los Alamos is [...]

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