Danny Snelson designs custom (and eco-friendly!) AI for new installation at MASS MoCA
The UCLA professor of English and design media arts created a private large language model that replicates the ancient practice of reading coffee grounds.

In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Distinguished Professor Robert Watson writes that the famous line doesn’t mean what ‘Hamnet’ thinks it means.
The UCLA professor of English and design media arts created a private large language model that replicates the ancient practice of reading coffee grounds.
“Forms of Mobility” highlights evolving centers of literary influence since the mid-20th century in Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The research, conducted by UCLA’s AI and Cultural Heritage Lab, will explore the promise and pitfalls of large language models and social media.
UCLA art history professor, collaborators to train graduate students in community-engaged research.
The fourth-year Ph.D. student spoke about his own journey and highlighted the breadth of disciplines that make up the study of ancient Egypt.
The archive will provide access to rare Japanese materials from the early 1600s through 1868 – including books, illustrated scrolls, lavishly drawn maps and medical texts.
Philosophy major Nicholas Fong Neuweg is learning how routine practices in the legal system can quietly manufacture certainty.
The Writing Programs lecturer is the first UCLA representative to take part in an initiative organized by Campus Compact.
Ryan Schaller and Suong Thai were selected for the UCLA Teaching & Learning Center’s Collegium of University Teaching Fellows program.
Peer advisers offer free one-on-one support on class papers, resumes, lab reports, personal statements and more.
Asian Languages and Cultures professor Stephanie Balkwill on how the Walk for Peace embodies Buddhist teachings.
As an undergraduate, the applied linguistics major was deeply involved in research on language acquisition and cochlear implants.
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