Faculty members discuss the use of AI in their research, reflecting how the rapidly advancing technology can deepen understanding, expand access to knowledge and inspire new forms of scholarship.
Jakub Polaczyk explores compositional techniques and his concept of the musical diary, in which works function as layered records of personal, historical and cultural experience.
Composer Andrew A. Watts discusses the creative process in his recent video work, covering topics including data sonification, glitch and multimedia applications of artificial intelligence.
Tom Smith, a biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has seen this happen with certain frogs in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. “These populations have now been living with that pathogen for several generations across several decades, and we’re actually seeing adaptation and evolution to that in some of the populations,” he tells Smithsonian magazine.
