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October 29, 2018
Student team creates Stumpjumper videogame for Specialized bicycle company
'Stumpjumper: The Videogame', developed by a team of UCSC game design students, was released October 11.
October 22, 2018
NIH grant funds development of a wayfinding app for the blind
Engineer Roberto Manduchi develops assistive technologies for people with disabilities.
October 18, 2018
3D-printed supercapacitor electrode breaks records in lab tests
Advances in supercapacitor technology could lead to wider use of fast-charging energy storage devices and novel designs for electronic gadgets.
September 13, 2018
Quantum information science on the verge of a technological revolution
Theorist Yuan Ping is developing computational methods to guide the design of new materials for quantum computing and other quantum information technologies.
September 11, 2018
Data science researchers to tackle privacy challenges in genomics
Computer scientist Abhradeep Guha Thakurta has won NSF funding to investigate ways to protect the privacy of individuals while allowing access to large genomic data sets.
September 05, 2018
UC Santa Cruz helps address massive data demands from Large Hadron Collider as part of $25 million NSF project
Computer scientist Carlos Maltzahn will work with Princeton University on an NSF-funded project to establish the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics.
August 13, 2018
New book by UC Santa Cruz arts professor examines cultural impact of video games
In her new book, 'On Video Games: The Visual Politics of Race, Gender and Space,' UC Santa Cruz professor Soraya Murray goes beyond the technical discussions of games and instead offers a deep dive into their cultural dimensions.
July 17, 2018
Comic-Con panel features games program director Michael John
Panelists will discuss the upcoming release of a remastered version of the Spyro the Dragon series of videogames, which John worked on 20 years ago as a designer and producer.
July 05, 2018
Computer engineer Chen Qian wins NSF CAREER Award
NSF funding supports Qian's research on new memory-efficient and ultra-fast network algorithms and protocols.
June 20, 2018
Corporate-sponsored projects give engineering students valuable experience
UC Santa Cruz engineering students presented their senior design projects to mentors and faculty on Tuesday, June 5.
May 24, 2018
Sammy Showcase features VR and video games from UCSC game design students
The public is invited to a fun, family-friendly game festival on Saturday, June 9, at the UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus in Santa Clara.
May 21, 2018
Computer scientist Owen Arden wins NSF CAREER Award
Owen Arden, assistant professor of computer science in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
April 23, 2018
Face recognition for galaxies: Artificial intelligence brings new tools to astronomy
A 'deep learning' algorithm trained on images from cosmological simulations has been surprisingly successful at classifying real galaxies in Hubble images.
April 17, 2018
Control theory symposium April 27 features leading academic and industry experts
The Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz will host a regional symposium on Control Theory and Automation on Friday, April 27.
April 12, 2018
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves appointed director of CITRIS at UC Santa Cruz
Computer engineer J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves has been appointed to serve as the UC Santa Cruz director for CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute.
March 13, 2018
Silicon Valley Campus raising profile
By Scott Brandt, Vice Chancellor, Office of Research — The role of UC Santa Cruz in Silicon Valley—an extension of our mission of education, research, and service—is focused on four key areas.
March 13, 2018
UC Santa Cruz ranked among top schools for game design
As in past years, UC Santa Cruz is featured on Princeton Review's 2018 lists for top undergraduate and graduate programs in game design.
March 01, 2018
CENIC recognizes UCSC's Hyades supercomputer cluster connection
Project connecting Hyades to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's computing center earns CENIC Innovations Award.
February 16, 2018
Alley-oops for the OLLI Hoops
For this basketball team made up of women in their 60s and 70s, getting exercise, enjoying camaraderie, and learning a new skill has been a slam dunk.
February 13, 2018
Computer science grad student wins Better Scientific Software Fellowship
Ivo Jimenez was recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project in its inaugural class of Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellows.
February 12, 2018
UCSC's SlugBot team chosen again to compete in Amazon's Alexa Prize Challenge
For the second year in a row, a team of computer science students has won sponsorship from Amazon to develop a "socialbot" that can converse with humans.
February 09, 2018
Two UCSC professors elected to National Academy of Engineering
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler and computer scientist Martín Abadi have been recognized for their pioneering achievements.
January 16, 2018
New catalyst for hydrogen production is a step toward clean fuel
A novel material developed at UC Santa Cruz has shown impressive performance as a catalyst for the electrochemical splitting of water to produce hydrogen.
January 03, 2018
NSF I-Corps pushes discoveries to market
Professor Sue Carter testified before congressional leaders on NSF Innovation Corps, which assists scientists and engineers in discovering commercial applications for their research.