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Gamasutra
Time to move on from the gameplay vs. story debate
Game news site Gamasutra gave in-depth coverage to the talk by computer scientist Michael Mateas, director of the Center for Games and Playable Media, at the center's Interactive Storytelling Symposium.
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Salon
Why are men still proposing?
Salon mentioned UCSC graduate student Rachael Robnett's study in an article on attitudes regarding marriage proposal traditions.
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Venture Beat
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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New Scientist
App helps blind photographers take the perfect snap
A smartphone camera app to help blind and partially sighted people take photos, developed by computer science graduate student Dustin Adams and others in the Interactive Systems for Individuals with Special Needs Lab, was the subject of stories in New Scientist magazine, Digital Trends, Tech Hive, and Hot Hardware.
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Financial Times
Time is money when it comes to microwaves
Astrophysicist Greg Laughlin and physicist Anthony Aguirre teamed up with a Stanford law professor to study the use of microwave communications for high-frequency trading in financial markets, and their findings are reported in an article in the Financial Times.
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Red Orbit
Picky Eating Drove Saber-Tooth Tiger To Extinction In Last Ice Age
Paleontologist Justin Yeakel was quoted in coverage of his research on the Pleistocene predators of the mammoth steppe, including stories from Red Orbit, Field & Stream, Science 2.0, eScienceNews, and PhysOrg.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Medical research must not be cut
The San Francisco Chronicle published an opinion piece by Chancellor Blumenthal on the need to maintain federal support for medical research.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta addresses Cesar Chavez Convocation at UCSC
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the 10th Annual César Chávez Convocation and the keynote address by United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta.

