Engineering
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Robotic Surgery Opens Up
Medical robotics expert Jacob Rosen is featured in a Scientific American article about his group's open-source Raven II robotic surgery system.
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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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UCSC Team Adds TARGET Data to CGHub, Prepares to Accommodate CGCI Project
Bioinformatics experts David Haussler and Linda Rosewood were quoted in stories about new features in UCSC's Cancer Genomics Hub, a data portal used by cancer researchers throughout the country, including coverage from GenomeWeb, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Inside Bay Area, BioSpace, MedicalXpress, Health Canal, Science Daily, and Digital Me.
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Maverix Biomics, co-founded by UCSC professor, announces funding
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a story about Maverix Biomics, a biotech startup cofounded by biomolecular engineer Todd Lowe. It was also covered in biotech newsletter BioInform.
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UCSC researcher leads cancer's digital revolution
The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran a profile of bioinformatics expert and cancer researcher David Haussler. The story also ran in the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times.
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A star is born: the updated Human Reference Genome
A Nature story about the release of a more complete version of the human genome reference sequence cites the work of a UCSC team led by Karen Miga and Jim Kent to produce the centromere sequences.
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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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Google, Amazon making sci-fi real with robots, drones
Robotics expert Jacob Rosen was quoted in a story from the German Press Agency (DPA) Business Line about Google's recent acquisition of robotics companies.
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UC Santa Cruz droid robots battling tonight in Slugs vs. Bugs
KSBW-TV covered the student robotics competition, the culmination of computer engineer Gabe Elkaim's Mechatronics class.
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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.