CM Seminar – “The ‘Social’ Side of Social Virtual Reality”

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

Presented by: Bree McEwan Description: One of the potential use cases of virtual reality is to create spaces where humans can interact with each other or virtual agents across distances. However, […]

Li, X. (CSE) – Compute-Efficient Scaling of Fully-Open Visual Encoders

Virtual Event

Vision encoders have demonstrated significant performance gains in visual generation and multimodal reasoning. These improvements are primarily attributed to the scaling of data, model capacity, and compute. However, this progress is becoming less accessible due to a lack of transparency in data curation and training recipes. In combination with the high compute requirements of foundation-scale […]

Building Brotherhood with the Khalil Center

Join AA/PIRC, SWANA, & the Khalil Center for a conversation about mental health for men in the Southwest Asian & North African (SWANA) community. This event centers SWANA men & is open to all students. Food will be provided! Please RSVP here. The Khalil Center is a wellness center that integrates Islamic spiritual approaches into professional psychology to help achieve optimal, holistic […]

February Slugs and Steins with Distinguished Professor Emeritus John Brown Childs

Virtual Event

Kings of Infinite Space: Courageous Compassion Among Men in Soledad Prison “I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself king of infinite space…” –Hamlet When I reflect on the expansively creative, compassionate, and transformational minds and actions of the incarcerated men with whom I have worked as a volunteer teacher of what I […]