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turntable needle on a vinyl record
Society & Culture
September 11, 2017

What’s vinyl got to do with it?

As new technologies take form, they often change habits and practices in ways few could have predicted at the time. At this week’s Light and Sound Interactive conference, Darren Mueller will examine vinyl’s impact on creating and consuming music.

"The models of distribution today are changing so rapidly-similar times in history can help us think about how we can navigate these issues moving forward.”
topics: announcements, Eastman School of Music, Light and Sound Interactive,
the back panel of a flat screen prototype
Science & Technology
September 8, 2017

Designing a world of immersive sound

Using a new approach to flat-panel design, Mark Bocko and his team are creating inexpensive prototypes of speakers that double as wall hangings and overhead lights.

With a new approach to flat-panel design, Mark Bocko and his team create inexpensive prototypes of speakers that double as wall hangings and overhead lights.
topics: Audio and Music Engineering, augmented reality, Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Light and Sound Interactive, Mark Bocko, virtual reality,
sparks fly as workers use a grider on a bell

The familiar sound of the bells in tower of Rush Rhees Library will be silenced for the next few weeks, while parts of the Hopeman Memorial Carillon are under restoration.

The bells in tower of Rush Rhees Library will be silenced for the next few weeks, while parts of the Hopeman Memorial Carillon are under restoration.
topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Hopeman Memorial Carillon, School of Arts and Sciences,
person holding photo and a candle at memorial service
University News
September 8, 2017

Never forget: Remembering September 11

Among the nearly 3,000 people who died during the attacks on 9/11 were six Rochester alumni—three who had just settled in to their offices in the World Trade Center; two who were flying aboard United Flight 93 when it crashed in rural Pennsylvania; and one who rushed to help survivors escaping the crumbling towers.

topics: alumni,
field of stars

Institutions including Cornell, Michigan, Princeton, and Stanford will join Rochester in developing an instrument to produce and study matter that exists under pressures far higher than either on or inside Earth.

Cornell, Michigan, Princeton, and Stanford join Rochester in developing an instrument to study matter that exists under pressures far higher than on Earth.
topics: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, high-energy-density physics, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, planets, research funding, School of Arts and Sciences,
rendering of a planet
Science & Technology
September 7, 2017

Climate change for aliens

For more than 50 years, the Kardashev scale has been the gold standard for classifying hypothetical “exo-civilizations” by their ability to harness energy. A team of researchers led by Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank have devised a new system that takes into account the impacts of that energy use.

A new classification scheme updates the Kardashev scale by including the impacts of an exo-civilization's energy use.
topics: Adam Frank, climate change, Department of Physics and Astronomy, exoplanets, planets, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Ang Lee holding a camera

Rochester has the ingredients to create its own Silicon Valley in emerging imaging and audio technologies. That’s the vision of the organizers of Light and Sound Interactive, a conference and expo that will showcase how Rochester can play a leading role in such growing fields as augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), and interactive games and media. Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee is among this year’s keynotes.

Light and Sound Interactive draws on deep expertise in light, music, and optics to showcase Rochester’s leadership in the growing fields.
topics: augmented reality, Light and Sound Interactive, virtual reality,
close-up of monkey
Science & Technology
September 6, 2017

Monkey sees. . . monkey knows?

Monkeys had higher confidence in their ability to remember an image when the visual contrast was high. These kinds of metacognitive illusions—false beliefs about how we learn or remember best—are shared by humans, leading brain and cognitive scientists to believe that metacognition could have an evolutionary basis.

Brain and cognitive scientists report that monkeys, like humans, base metacognitive confidence on fluency—how easy something is to see, hear, or perceive.
topics: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,