MAGIC has existed for about five years already, but with the opening of the new center, students working in film, animation, game development, and other digital media studies got a serious upgrade in their classroom environment and amenities.
Technology
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Holographic tech hits RMSC
This summer, the Rochester Museum and Science Center will present a new interactive exhibition featuring a display of working holograms and interactive holographic technology. The star of the new exhibit is a Holographic Laser Projector, developed and donated by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF. Fraunhofer is based in Jena, Germany, […]
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Slaves to the machines
Big Data can quantify your life, but may not necessarily improve the quality
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Project Censored
Top 10 stories that the media missed or ignored in 2015-2016.
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Media art giants on display at MAG
Since taking the reins as director of the Memorial Art Gallery, Jonathan Binstock has made it his mission to flesh out the institution’s contemporary collection with heavy hitters. This trend continues as MAG, last month, announced a new collaboration with independent consulting curator of film and media arts, John G. Hanhardt. Throughout his career, Hanhardt […]
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Charge up and go
[UPDATED AND REVISED 11/1/16]Cruising Route 66 in your Chevrolet or Pontiac V8 was once the ultimate expression of the American spirit — embodying freedom, restlessness, and the wide open road. But more than a half-century later, electric vehicles are inspiring a much different American spirit: one concerned about the steep fiscal and environmental costs of […]
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Reddit co-founder: You’ve got to suck to succeed
Reddit started as the project of two college kids with a $12,000 check from an investor. Now, it’s ranked as the eighth-largest website in the United States, co-founder Alexis Ohanian told a crowd at RIT’s Ingle Auditorium last week. The social media site is a sprawling series of discussion boards, ranging from deep debates on […]
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On the fiber fast lane
Monroe County and the City of Rochester are poised to hire a Denver-based firm to study their fiber networks and to help them figure out whether they could open the systems to outside users. Magellan Advisors has worked with several cities — from Riverside, California, to Hudson, Ohio, — to assess the state of their […]
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PHOTONICS: Building Rochester’s future
A one-year report card on Rochester’s progress as the center of this new industry.
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Communities face drone questions
The Honeoye Falls Fire Department’s annual Christmas parade was in full swing when a camera-wielding drone descended on it. The parade is a popular community event, and in this past year’s, more than 15 area fire departments queued up in the village; that’s a whole lot of trucks covered in wreaths, lights, and holiday lawn […]
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SUNY Polytech wants Legacy Tower for photonics HQ
It appears that Legacy Tower will be the downtown home of the recently announced, Department of Defense-backed photonics manufacturing institute. Or maybe not. Last night, SUNY Polytechnic Institute and several local business leaders — few of whom have anything to do with the photonics field — announced that SUNY Polytechnic plans to lease 25,000 square […]
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Fiber growth speeds up
If any Ontario County community seemed poised to get a high-tech fiber optic Internet system, it would have to be Victor; it’s a fairly wealthy Rochester suburb that’s seen plenty of development. But in this case, assumptions don’t match reality. The tiny Village of Naples in the county’s rural southwest tip is actually the first […]
