Engineering
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America’s love-hate relationship with the fidget spinner: Is technology to blame for our restlessness?
Computational media professor Katherine Isbister was featured in stories in the Washington Post and Wired about the popularity of "fidget spinners."
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Fidget toys aren’t just hype
Computational media professor Katherine Isbister wrote an article on the fidget spinner craze for the Conversation, and it was republished in Scientific American and dozens of other media outlets.
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The future is in interactive storytelling
Computational media professors Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas published an article in the Conversation on the future of interactive storytelling.
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Chatbot challenges will make AIs discuss the latest news
Computer scientist Marilyn Walker was quoted in a New Scientist article about chatbots.
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Facebook decides fake news isn't crazy after all. It's now a real problem
Computer scientist Luca de Alfaro was quoted in a Register story about fake news.
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How the mixed reality game 'Bad News' brings towns like 'Twin Peaks' to life
Game designers Ben Samuel, Adam Summerville, and James Ryan are featured in an in-depth review of their mixed-reality game "Bad News" on the game news site Glixel.
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Angela Brooks: Splicing Specialist
Biomolecular engineer Angela Brooks is profiled in The Scientist magazine as a "Scientist to Watch."
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Genome 10K wants to sequence the genes of endangered species
Genome scientist David Haussler was quoted in a story about the Genome 10K Project in Yahoo News, Digital Trends, and other media outlets.
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Whatever you do, don’t say yes when this chatbot asks, 'Can you hear me?'
Computer scientist Marilyn Walker was quoted in a David Lazarus column about chatbots using artificial intelligence to sound more human, which ran in the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.
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UC Santa Cruz scientists create surfboard foam from shrimp shells
Engineers Marco Rolandi and John Felts were featured in a Santa Cruz Sentinel story about their work on a new material derived from shrimp shells for making surfboards.
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Real vs. reference genomes
Biomolecular engineer Jenny Draper was quoted in an article in BioTechniques about her research on genomic variation within laboratory strains of bacteria.
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DNA research shows modern humans benefit from neanderthal DNA
Paleogenomics expert Ed Green was featured in a news story on KPIX TV (CBS San Francisco) about the significance of neanderthal genes in modern humans.