Engineering
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Warren Spector wants game designers to work on non-combat A.I.
VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi filed three stories from the Interactive Storytelling Symposium organized by the Center for Games and Playable Media, including one on keynote speaker Warren Spector, another on CGPM's game designer in residence Brenda Romero, and the third on Disney Imagineering creative director Asa Kalama.
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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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UC Santa Cruz Cancer Genomics Hub Wins CENIC’s 2013 Innovations in Networking Award for High-Performance Research Applications
The CENIC Innovations in Networking Award for UCSC's Cancer Genomics Hub was covered by SYS-CON Media, Education Technology, Green Technology World, Smart Grid, Virtual Technology Magazine, CNS, Drug Discovery and Development, and other online news sites.
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Shakespeare's sonnets (and more) stored in DNA files
Genomics expert David Haussler was quoted in a story on MSNBC.com about researchers who developed a way to encode music and text files into DNA molecules. The story also ran on Yahoo! News, Live Science, TechNewsDaily, and other news sites.
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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.
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Why data is the key to better medicine–and maybe a cure for cancer
Biomolecular engineer David Haussler was featured in a GigaOm article about applications of "big data" in medicine. The Washington Post also ran the story.
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UC Santa Cruz scientists part of 'Dream Team'
Biomolecular engineers Josh Stuart and David Haussler were featured in a story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and San Jose Mercury News about their work on a cancer research "Dream Team" funded by Stand Up To Cancer.