April 30, 2024
Exploring Generative AI possibilities with Magy Seif El-Nasr, UC Santa Cruz Computational Media Chair
Many conversations about generative artificial intelligence in higher education are about academic integrity and threats to learning. Those issues are serious and challenging.
November 16, 2023
Brain-inspired AI code library passes major milestone, new paper offers perspective on future of field
UCSC Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jason Eshraghian’s open source code library for brain-inspired deep learning, called “snnTorch,” has surpassed 100,000 downloads.
August 2023
When humanists meet technologists
UC Santa Cruz’s new Humanizing Technology Certificate Program is helping students confront the moral and social implications of technology, harnessing the power of the humanities to envision a more just and responsible future.
August 10, 2023
Researchers’ tool finds bias in state-of-the-art generative AI model
UCSC researchers introduce a new tool to measure bias in text-to-image AI generation models, which they have used to quantify bias in the state-of-the-art model Stable Diffusion.
June 8, 2023
UCSC team wins third place in first-ever Amazon SimBot challenge
A team of UC Santa Cruz computer science and engineering (CSE) Ph.D. students won third place in the first-ever Amazon Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge, a university competition focused on advancing virtual assistant technology.
March 7, 2023
SpikeGPT: researcher releases code for largest-ever spiking neural network for language generation
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jason Eshraghian and two students recently released the open-sourced code for the largest language-generating spiking neural network ever, named SpikeGPT.
November 14, 2022
New algae exhibit in Madrid: a collaboration that inspires
UCSC Arts and Digital Arts & New Media professor Jennifer Parker is the founding director of the OpenLab Collaborative Research Center at UC Santa Cruz.
June 13, 2022
Zimmer to develop Responsible AI course
Zimmer will join colleagues from around the U.S. to plan classes that better explore the impact of artificial intelligence on our society.
January 20, 2022
UC Santa Cruz receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant to connect studies of humanities, engineering
UC Santa Cruz will create a new Certificate in the Humanities introducing students enrolled in the Baskin School of Engineering to humanities disciplines aimed to help them better understand the effects and potential for positive impact of technology on the planet and its inhabitants.