The golden age of the algorithm is now. As Netflix’s personalized video recommendation algorithm catalyzed mass online film distribution and Pandora Radio’s music recommendation algorithm redesigned the way people find new music, so is VineLust’s taste algorithm pioneering the way wine will be recommended and distributed. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Pallavi Patil founded VineLust, a wine e-commerce startup that aims to help people explore wines using an algorithm.
To make it big in the multibillion-dollar film industry, sometimes it’s best to start small. UCLA’s Video Production Crew is a student-led organization that produces short films. Read more...
Photo: From left: First-year psychobiology student Elaine Lin, first-year undeclared student Alexander DeKoning and fourth-year linguistics student Julio Vega work on a shoot for UCLA’s Video Production Crew. Their project for winter quarter will be the group’s first thriller, filmed at Lucia’s Cafe in Westwood. In the film, a man brings a suitcase into a diner and tells a waitress there is a bomb inside.
In just six short months, The Primaries have gone from an idea to an eight-person collective. Read more...
Photo: The Primaries, a new jazz collective started by students Ryan Yoo and Sally Chung, will perform together for the first time at Kerckhoff Coffeehouse tonight as part of the Cultural Affairs Commission’s concert series.
Jerusalem: a girl just heard Naomi Robin play a few songs. Read more...
Photo: Singer-songwriter Naomi Robin brings her set of songs about empowerment, strength and heartbreak to the Kerckhoff Coffeehouse tonight as part of Cultural Affairs Commission’s concert series.
The Daily Bruin collected Academy Awards ballot predictions from the UCLA community starting Feb. 17. Read more...
Women are stealing the spotlight this weekend in the UCLA production of Tony Award-winning writer Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.” Read more...
Photo: Three performances of Tony Award-winning writer Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” will cap off the V-Day campaign at UCLA.
“Argo” is the year’s Cinderella story. Read more...
