Saturday, December 20

Student group hosts Viennese delegation to discuss future of AI ethics

Ethical questions about artificial intelligence brought together a student-run organization and an international delegation in a cross-cultural dialogue Monday. UCLA’s AI Robotics Ethics Society hosted a delegation from Vienna, Austria, to discuss the ethics of AI, including the automation of jobs by AI machines, the use of AI in healthcare and the regulation of AI research. Read more...

Photo: Claus Kramsl (left), a journalist, Gerhard Hirczi (center), the managing director of the Vienna Business Agency, and Ute Stadlbauer (right), a regional manager at the agency, were part of a delegation which discussed the ethics of artificial intelligence. (Daanish Bhatti/Daily Bruin)


Students concerned about UCLA’s lack of wildfire emergency plan for campus, dorms

If a wildfire threatened UCLA, administrators plan to defend the campus rather than evacuate all students. Michael Beck, administrative vice chancellor, said UCLA has an agreement with the Los Angeles Fire Department to provide sufficient resources to ensure campus safety, particularly for student housing facilities. Read more...

Photo: The Getty fire did not threaten campus because the wind pushed it west of the 405 Freeway. If such a blaze threatened campus, logistical problems would prevent UCLA from evacuating all students. Instead, the Los Angeles Fire Department would work to defend the campus and students would be free to self-evacuate. (Kanishka Mehra/Assistant Photo editor)


UCLA Health for Bruins clinic aims to increase accessibility to campus health care

An additional student clinic has been open for a year now, but remains in its pilot program because of low student use. The clinic, UCLA Health for Bruins, opened September 2018 at 100 Medical Plaza, Suite 490. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Health for Bruins, a clinic for students, opened in September 2018 but has been operating as a pilot program since then. Its physicians hope to offer students health services later in the evening and, eventually, over the weekends. (Daanish Bhatti/Daily Bruin)


MATLAB software now accessible for free to all UCLA students, staff and faculty

The UCLA community can now access the programming software MATLAB for free via a campuswide license. UCLA administrators sent a campuswide email Thursday, announcing UCLA would be providing a campuswide license of the software for students, faculty and staff. Read more...

Photo: Students, faculty and staff can now access MATLAB for free via a campuswide license paid for by UCLA administrators. Students who purchased the software between Sept. 23 and Thursday are eligible for reimbursements. (Niveda Tennety/Assistant Photo editor)


Daily Bruin wins awards for nation’s best collegiate newspaper, websites

This post was updated Nov. 3 at 2:14 p.m. The Daily Bruin won three National Pacemaker Awards on Saturday for its newspaper, website and magazine website for the 2018-2019 year, the first time it has won in all three categories in the same year. Read more...

Photo: The Daily Bruin received three National Pacemaker Awards on Saturday for best four-year college newspaper, website and magazine website for the 2018-2019 year. (Liz Ketcham/Photo editor)


Alumni reached new heights while exploring UCLA from its rooftops

This post was updated Nov. 3 at 1:15 p.m. Last year, if you happened to ask him, a bleached-blond political science student could tell you how to get to the rooftop of most buildings at UCLA. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumni Scott Mulligan and Joseph Marynak refer to themselves as “urban explorers.” During their time at college, they scaled multiple campus buildings and explored UCLA’s underground tunnels. (Courtesy of Mackenzie Murphy)




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