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Creative Computing

May 1, 2023

Professor Shlomo Dubmov is working on a project with researchers in Europe to enhance the creative relationship between humans and computers — by teaching computers to play improv jazz.

Computers in a Jazz Ensemble? Inventing Improvisational AI

January 13, 2022

Project REACH: Raising Co-creativity in Cyber-Human Musicianship is teaching computers how to improvise, musically.

Engineers Develop Techniques to Improve Efficiency of Cloud Computing Infrastructure

March 6, 2013

Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, and Google have developed a novel approach that allows the massive infrastructure powering cloud computing to run more efficiently. The new approach can make these warehouse-scale computers run as much as 15 to 20 percent more efficiently. This novel model has…

UK Government Science Minister and Startup CEOs Talk Robotics at UC San Diego

June 19, 2014

What will be the role of robotics in the workplace? How can startups in robotics become mass-market success stories? And what will the robotics industry look like in five, or even 50 years? Those are some of the topics up for discussion June 23 when academic, government and industry participants…

UC San Diego Joins IBM World Community Grid’s Search for Zika Treatment

May 19, 2016

…from Brazil, the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego, and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School have launched OpenZika, a project to find drug candidates to treat Zika, a fast spreading virus that the World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency.

Fur Real - Scientists Improve Computer Rendering of Animal Fur

February 20, 2018

The next computer-generated animals in King Kong or The Lion King could look a lot more realistic thanks to a breakthrough by computer scientists at the University of California. The researchers from UC San Diego and UC Berkeley developed a method that dramatically improves the way computers simulate fur, and…

Data Structures Influence Speed of Quantum Search in Unexpected Ways

March 17, 2015

Using the quantum property of superposition, quantum computers will be able to find target items within large piles of data far faster than conventional computers ever could. But the speed of the search will likely depend on the structure of the data.

Pre-med Student Melds Matrix and Medicine 

March 18, 2021

…San Diego. Ye utilizes computational techniques to help during research with a goal to better understand medicine and biology. Nineteen-year-old Gordon Ye is a second-year pre-med student at the University of California San Diego, with studies focused on computer science and biomedical computation; however, that last part wasn’t something he…

Hipster, Surfer or Biker? Computers May Soon Be Able to Tell the Difference

December 10, 2013

…your urban tribe? Your computer may soon be able to tell. Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, are developing an algorithm that uses group pictures to determine to which of these groups, or urban tribes, you belong. So far, the algorithm is 48 percent accurate on average.…

Wireless devices used by casual pilots vulnerable to hacking, computer scientists find

November 10, 2014

…some scenarios could lead to catastrophic outcomes, according to computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego and Johns Hopkins University. They presented their findings Nov. 5 at the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Scottsdale, Ariz.

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