Computer Science & Engineering
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A New Department Marks the Rise of a Discipline: ‘Computational Media’
Computer scientists Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas were featured in a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the new Department of Computational Media, which was also covered in Technology News and TMCnet.
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UCSC’s gaming program is nurturing new generations of game developers
Computer scientist Jim Whitehead was quoted in a Silicon Valley Business Journal article about UCSC's programs in computer game design.
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UCSC alum designs affordable desktop digital router
Computer engineering professor Gabe Elkaim is quoted in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about UCSC alumni Bar Smith and Tom Beckett who have developed an affordable desktop CNC router and started a company to market it.
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UCSC students design video game aimed at making astrophysics fun
Computer science graduate students Kate Compton and April Grow, and astrophysicist Stan Woosley, were featured in a San Jose Mercury News story about a game called Stellar based on the astrophysics of stars. The story also ran in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, and other newspapers throughout the state.
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Big Data
A cover story on "big data" in the Good Times weekly features UCSC experts David Haussler and Ethan Miller.
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Gamers could help debug military code
Computer scientists Jim Whitehead and Heather Logas were quoted in stories about their work on an iPad game that helps debug computer code, with coverage from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and Inside Bay Area.
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UCSC robot stars in blockbuster Ender's Game
Computer engineer Jacob Rosen was quoted in a story about his team's surgical robot, which was featured in the movie "Ender's Game," in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, San Jose Mercury News, Chico Enterprise Register, GeekWire, and Inside Bay Area.
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First Trial of Crowdsourced Grading for Computer Science Homework
MIT Technology Review reports on CrowdGrader, an online crowdsourcing tool developed by computer scientist Luca de Alfaro and graduate student Michael Shavlovsky that allows students to grade their classmates' homework and receive credit for the effort they put in.
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Computer pioneer Harry Huskey honored for lifetime contribution
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a profile of Harry Huskey, professor emeritus of computer science.
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Into gaming? Silicon Valley now has a masters degree for that
Jim Whitehead, chair of computer science, was quoted in a Silicon Valley Business Journal article about the new M.S. degree in games and playable media offered from the UCSC Silicon Valley Center. Stories about the new degree also ran in the San Jose Mercury News, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Contra Costa Times, KGO-TV, and Education Technology.
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Dueling robots draw crowd to UC Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and KSBW TV covered the "Slug Trek" public robotics demonstration featuring a competition between robots built by students in computer engineer Gabe Elkaim's Mechtronics class.
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Project aims to develop systems for human-robot collaboration
The Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News ran a story about computer engineer Jacob Rosen's research on robotic surgery and human-robot collaboration.