Computational Media
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Computer scientist Marilyn Walker honored by Association for Computational Linguistics
Walker, a professor of computer science, has been named a fellow of the ACL.
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UC Santa Cruz now offering graduate degrees in computational media
Department of Computational Media is accepting applications now for the M.S. and Ph.D. programs to begin in fall 2017.
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UC Santa Cruz student games win awards at IndieCade
Two games developed by UC Santa Cruz students won awards at the 2016 IndieCade International Festival of Independent Games.
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UC Santa Cruz student games featured at IndieCade Festival
The UCSC game design program will be well represented at IndieCade, the biggest event in the indie games community.
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Big questions to be explored at Silicon Valley Campus grand opening
The celebration, showcasing the multidisciplinary teaching and research hub, will feature an open house, a ribbon cutting, and a handful of engaging talks by leading campus thinkers.
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UC Santa Cruz team wins game design competition at E3 event
A team of students in the Games and Playable Media master’s program won the Social Connection GameJam competition.
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New book explores the emotional power of games
Katherine Isbister presents a new way to think about videogames and their effects on people who play them.
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‘Questions That Matter’ public humanities series to focus on games and play
Over the past decade, the revolution in gaming has created new communities, identities, and careers. Games can now help detect early dementia, reduce pain felt by burn victims, and may help speed healing from concussions…
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UCSC hires game designer Erin Swink as creative director of master’s program
Independent game developer Erin Robinson Swink will be creative director of the master’s program in games and playable media
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Picture this: An app for blind photographers
Grad student Dustin Adams, who works in UC Santa Cruz’s Interactive Systems for Individuals with Special Needs lab, designed a tool to recognize and describe photos.
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UCSC and SRI release new game for DARPA crowd-sourced software verification program
Sophisticated gamers can help improve security of the country’s critical software by playing a new game created by UC Santa Cruz researchers.
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UC Santa Cruz team introduces new web-based tools for finding videogames
The proliferation of videogames has created a “discoverability” problem for game enthusiasts and others, but help is now just a click away.