IDRE Selects Inaugural Fellows
Computer science and medieval art history may not seem like an obvious pairing, but both fields are represented by the diverse group of four UCLA early career researchers who were…
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Cybersecurity Expert Reveals How He Hacks the Hackers
It’s safe to say that hacking has recently blown up on the international stage. However, University of Arizona Regents’ Professor Dr. Hsinchun Chen, who is also the founder and director…
The Hacker Web Project: Exploring the Dark Side of the Web
The new celebrity doesn’t exist on the big screen or even the silver screen—hackers exist on your personal computer screens. The topic of hacking has blown up on the international…
Finding a Sense of Place with GIS
Although IDRE Technologist Yoh Kawano has spent more than two decades working with geographic information systems (GIS) – technology designed to help visualize, analyze, and interpret data – he said…
Scholar Explores Ways the Humanities Incorporates the Use of Data
Halfway through earning her doctorate degree in film studies and American studies at Yale University, Miriam Posner’s academic interest in data flourished during a hiatus from school. Posner, coordinator and…
Broadcast News Analysis Reveals Deeper Understanding of Media
With a collection of recordings from 46 different broadcast networks of 2,500 different television shows that amount to approximately 283,000 hours of footage and 750,000 metadata files, you would be…
Bridging the Gap Between Art and Code
Visual artist Casey Reas’ initial interest in computer programming grew out of an art project. Reas, a UCLA Design Media Arts professor, said that as an artist he has always…
Exploring the intersection of the written word and technology
Johanna Drucker is busy. Outside of her work as a professor in the UCLA Department of Information Studies and serving on the University’s Institute for Digital Research and Education’s (IDRE) Humanities,…
UCLA Professor Unites Film Analysis and Technology for a New Interpretation
During the 1960s, UCLA cinema and media studies professor Stephen Mamber pioneered an education for himself that did not previously exist. While completing an undergraduate degree in math at UC…
Computational Tools Could Change the Way Sleep Apnea is Treated
Imagine that before performing surgery doctors could consult software that would determine the actual effectiveness of the procedure before even lifting a scalpel. With the use of a computational model…