News Archive - Doug Ramsey

UC Riverside Joins UC San Diego, UC Irvine in Multidisciplinary Research Institute Calit2

The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, or Calit2, is expanding to include a third University of California campus. UC Riverside will join founding members UC San Diego and UC Irvine in the multidisciplinary research institute.

How Earth’s Magnetic Field May Provide New Ways of Dating Ancient Archaeological Artifacts

In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, archaeologists and geophysicists from UC San Diego have filled in some of the regional gaps in the record of Earth’s magnetic field using artifacts from the Neolithic period in the ancient Levant.

Training Computers to Transfer Music from One Style to Another

UC San Diego computer music professor and high school student devise a machine learning tool to transfer music notation between musical styles.

Machine Learning Enhances Non-verbal Communication in Online Classrooms

Prompted by the challenge of teaching music via Zoom during the pandemic, researchers use eye tracking, gaze estimation and machine learning to improve non-verbal communication in virtual classrooms.

U.S., Israeli Universities Open Marine Archaeology Research Station

A binational team from UC San Diego and University of Haifa inaugurated a joint new Marine Archaeology Research Station on April 20 in the Mediterranean coast town of Akko in Israel.

Dual Multimedia Installations Address Sonification of Endangered Coral Reefs

Two multimedia installations by Music graduate students based on the sonification of endangered coral reefs will premiere Feb. 8 as part of the 2017-2018 performance season at UC San Diego's Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts & Sciences (IDEAS) in the Qualcomm Institute.