Computer Science & Engineering
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Not the same old game: Michael Mateas leads the gaming revolution
Michael Mateas, a lead faculty member in UCSC’s hot new computer game design program, predicts that the interactive structure of computer gaming will soon transform media as diverse as movies, visual art, fiction, documentaries, teaching materials, and ev
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Baskin School of Engineering will showcase faculty research on Friday, October 17
Advances in sustainable energy, information systems, DNA sequencing, and video-game design are among the highlighted topics in a day of UCSC engineering faculty presentations.
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Settlement provides $457,000 in financial aid for students in computer game design major
Students at UC Santa Cruz majoring in computer game design are the lucky beneficiaries of a settlement reached in a class action lawsuit involving video gaming employees at Sony.
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UC Santa Cruz team developing a high-tech dictionary for the classroom
Dictionaries in the classroom may go the way of typewriters if researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have their way.
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NSF grant provides scholarships for UC Santa Cruz engineering students
A new scholarship program will provide financial and academic support for students in the Baskin School of Engineering, thanks to a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Educational Partnership Center offers array of summer programs
This summer, many middle and high school students took advantage of a wide variety of academic enrichment programs offered by the UCSC Educational Partnership Center.
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UCSC computer scientists develop solutions for long-term storage of digital data
UCSC computer scientists have developed a new solution for storing vast amounts of digital information in a way that allows future generations to recover it.
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UCSC project aims to provide a virtual speech therapist via cell phone
UCSC researchers have received funding from Microsoft Research to develop a virtual speech therapist, accessible on a cell phone, to aid stroke survivors in Malaysia.
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Computer security expert Martín Abadi garners Outstanding Innovation Award
Martín Abadi, professor of computer science, has received the SIGSAC Outstanding Innovations Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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Avant-garde video-game blog earns art exhibition at UC Irvine’s Beall Center
UCSC computer scientist Michael Mateas presents four works of artificial intelligence and empathy at a new art exhibit.
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UCSC receives $120,000 HP Technology for Teaching leadership grant
Hewlett-Packard has selected UCSC as one of 10 recipients of its 2007 Technology for Teaching Leadership grants.
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New program color-codes text in Wikipedia entries to indicate trustworthiness
The online reference site Wikipedia enjoys immense popularity despite nagging doubts about the reliability of entries written by its all-volunteer team. A new program developed at UCSC aims to help with the problem by color-coding an entry’s individual ph