One hundred and four teams. Two years. Three winners. One intense competition. UC Santa Barbara’s resident hackers, team Shellphish, pitted their skills against cyber-security experts across the ...

A member of UCSB’s Team Shellphish speaks with a commentator at the 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge finals. (DARPA photo) UC Santa Barbara’s resident hackers, team Shellphish, pitted their skills ...

Beneath the surface of the second-floor lab in UC Santa Barbara’s Harold Frank Hall, a pod of sharp minds is moving toward a $4 million prize and the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI).

On Thursday, Giovanni Vigna and his team of graduate students from the University of California, Santa Barbara will power up a supercomputer in the ballroom at the Paris Las Vegas hotel, sit back and ...