Engineering
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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.
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UC Santa Cruz offers master’s degree In video gaming
KPIX Channel 5 in San Francisco aired a report on the new master's degree in games and playable media.
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Researchers develop ghost-free 3D For viewers not wearing glasses
Gizmodo, R&D magazine and Opli covered the news that UCSC researchers have developed a prototype for 3D+2D television that allows viewers with stereo glasses to see three-dimensional images, while viewers without the glasses see a normal two-dimensional image.
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From DNA to Drug Treatment
Bioinformatics researchers Joshua Stuart and Ted Goldstein are featured in a Good Times story about cancer genomics research at UCSC.
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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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UCSC Designing Social Network-type Model for Analyzing Cancer Data
Biomolecular engineer Joshua Stuart's work on the Biomedical Evidence Graph for analyzing cancer genomics data was covered by Genome Web, BioSpace, Bio-Medicine, News-Medical, and FierceBiotechIT.
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New single virus detection technique yields faster diagnosis
Media coverage of a new virus detection technique developed by electrical engineer Holger Schmidt included stories from R&D Magazine, Bloomberg Business Week, Red Orbit, Infection Control Today, Photonics Online, Innovations Report, Drug Discovery & Development, InfoTech News, StreetInsider, and Reuters.
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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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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.