A few days ago, a man specialized in electronic music and sound named Tyler Adams visited and gave out group an interesting lecture on his profession. The most interesting part of his lecture, in my opinion, was the subject of auto-tuning music. Auto-tune is a proprietary audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies that […]
Giacomo, from the Getty Research Center, was here today to speak to us about art preservation. Having a long time career in this field, Giacomo was able to tell us how the technology in art preservation and atomic analysis has evolved over the years. The high tech gadgets of his trade, as with any other […]
The past two weeks at UCLA have been fantastic! Before I came here, I was a bit wary about how the program would incorporate both art and science. However, after 10 days, I’ve realized that science and art cannot exist without the other. They are interdependent, and share a symbiotic relationship. (Yay biology terms!) Science […]
Nano technology program This two week nano technology program was really fun. We had a lot of interesting lectures and got to see a lot of mind boggling science fiction movies. My favorite movies were Children of men and Blade Runner. I liked it because every day we did something new, it was really cool. My favorite […]
The last two weeks have been completely exhausting, yet fascinating. Not only has the dorm time been fun, but also exlporing the campus, making new friends and the lab visits have been great as well. Today was mainly used to prepare our final projects for the presentations tommorow and to recieve advice and critique from […]
This days topic was Materials: coming to life. Throughout history, humans have measured ‘ages by which materials we utilize. Before, the most early humans simply used bones, rocks, and wood pieces to hunt and survive. However, today we have developed many new technologies that have proven to be more efficient and convenient. Quantum mechanics are […]
Two days ago, we got to make Ferro fluids in a beaker. Ferro fluids are magnetic so we got to manipulate the liquid. When we put a bar magnet underneath the beaker the Ferro fluid got stuck to the bottom of the glass. When we moved that magnet around spikes of Ferro fluid would move […]
Yesterday, we went to a room where the room reflects no sound. When the door is closed you cant hear even the loudest train passing by. This place was called the anechoic chamber. The is built specifically so no outside noise can be heard. The floor was made of suspended mesh so the floor did […]
July 15, 2009 When I walked inside, I found myself in a pitch black room. The walls were not normal but covered with thin, rectangular plates. There was even no floor available; it was basically a huge fence put on flat on the ground. But the weirdest part was the fact that it was soundproof. […]
For all of human history, the eras have been defined by the most important materials used as tools and building materials. The human race has progressed from the Stone Age to the Bronze, Iron, and Steel Ages. We are currently in what is widely regarded as the Information Age. With the invention of the Internet, […]