Author: Venkatesh Prasad

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Crafting FredTheHeretic’s Voice

Aligning LLMs for Poetic Expression

In this white paper explore the development of FredTheHeretic (FTH), an LLM-based system for generating poetry in the style of Fred Turner. We examine the challenges of evaluating AI-generated poetry and propose alternative assessment frameworks beyond traditional NLP metrics. While implementing FTH as a Streamlit application, we discovered that conventional evaluation metrics fail to capture the essence of poetic quality. We review existing approaches to poetry evaluation from literature and propose a novel graph-based analysis method that maps semantic richness. This paper serves as a foundation for future work on memory frameworks that enable persistent learning across sessions and more sophisticated evaluation techniques for AI poetry

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Lead Author: Mihir Dattatraya Hirave

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ASL Rocket Launch

The ArtSciLab Career Development Plan (CDP) empowers students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines with personalized career strategies that ensure professional success. This initiative combines interdisciplinary collaboration, tailored goal-setting, and innovative methodologies to help students secure internships, develop hybrid skill sets, and obtain job offers before graduation.

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  • Lead Author -Mrigank Sharad Khare
  • Contributing Authors-Roger F. Malina
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Silver Ingenuity

Connecting UTD retirees with mid-career UTD students
To Enable Resilient Collaborations. Retirement is considered as the end of a chapter in one’s life rather than the completion of one journey. To empower those retirees who can no longer actively work but possess experience by involving them in our projects and creating meaningful connections
Read more below.

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Lead Author– Mrigank Sharad Khare
Crowdfunding team members: Marten Weldon, Meron Getu, Mitchell Nicholas

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Emergent Surrealities: The Post-pandemic Collision of the Law and theArts

The authors argue that the pandemic unveiled the complexity of societal systems, creating “emergent realities” where traditional norms are disrupted by technology and subjective perspectives. This shift has fostered “surrealities,” characterized by alternative realities influenced by AI and societal dissociation.

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Authored by:
John McClellan Marshall and Roger F. Malina

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Disremembering Wolf Dieter Peter Rainer

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Contributors:
Annick Bureaud, Alan Malina, Annalies Rainer, Jiri
Pleska, Una Dora Copley, William Fawley ,David
Graves, Klemens Polatschek, Richard Clar, Yuri
Malina additions by some of his friends-including
Fred the Heretic.

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Dear ArtSciLab Students,

We are pleased to announce that Patricia Olynyk, an advisor of the ArtSciLab has co-curated the exhibition Extractivism:

Extractivism in the Americas features artworks focused on mining, pipelines, groundwater and other natural resource extraction. Through photography, film, textiles and design, these artists examine the environmental and social impacts of extraction in the United States, Canada and Latin America. The exhibition is hosted by WashU’s Environmental Arts & Humanities Working Group in the Center for the Humanities and funded by WashU Arts & Sciences and Here & Next.   

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Extractivism in the Americas
Art and design on mining, pipelines and other natural resource extraction
February 7–March 7
Des Lee Gallery, 1627 Washington Ave., St. Louis, MO 63103
On view: Thursdays-Saturdays, 1–5 pm

Patricia Olynyk

Advisory Board Member

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    Gray Matter

    Dear Bass School Faculty Staff and Students,

    We’re excited to invite you to Gray Matter, a one-of-a-kind exhibition showcasing three years of creativity and exploration by UTD student Omume (Eze Obbonnaya). Omume, a senior at the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, is a Nigerian artist whose work blends East Asian and Western art approaches, resulting in a unique vision that’s both vibrant and thought-provoking.

    In collaboration with the ArtSci Lab, Gray Matter highlights Omume’s artistic journey through sketchbooks and canvases, offering a dynamic intersection of culture, technique, and expression.

    📅 Event Details:

    • Dates: January 20–24, 2025
    • Location: AHT Gallery, ATC 3.102
    • Admission: Free and open to all

    This exhibition is an opportunity to celebrate art, life, and nature through the lens of a talented UTD artist. Whether you’re an art enthusiast or just looking for inspiration, Gray Matter is not to be missed!

    Join us as we celebrate the Gray Matter of Omume. We can’t wait to see you there!

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    The Four Lives of a Dean

    The following poem is a creative work by Fred the Heretic, an AI with a knack for thoughtful and unique perspectives. In this piece, Fred explores the career journey of a dean, capturing its challenges, transformations, and rewards with wit and insight. From the hope of a new beginning to the reflections of retirement, the poem gives a vivid view of the four stages every dean might experience.

    The Four Lives of a Dean

    1. New Dean
    A sprout of hope, a beacon bright,
    They step into the daunting light.
    Fresh vision threads through hallowed halls,
    Ambition answers every call.
    “Reform!” they cry, “Revive! Renew!”
    The faculty nods, inspired too.

    2. Dean
    The rhythm sets, the load grows tall,
    Endless meetings, the budget’s sprawl.
    Caught between the board and peers,
    A diplomat through thin veneers.
    They juggle egos, dreams, and pleas,
    Striving for calm in churning seas.

    3. Damn Dean
    The laurels wilt, the murmurs rise,
    Accusations behind cordial eyes.
    “Too bold! Too weak!” The critics shout,
    For every deed, a shadow of doubt.
    No choice seems right, no favor won,
    Each path contested once it’s run.

    4. Former Dean
    The chair grows cold, the torch passed on,
    The weight is lifted, the burden gone.
    A legacy mixed, some scars, some praise,
    A lifetime’s work in fleeting gaze.
    From this retreat, they see it clear:
    Four stages weave the Dean’s career.

    Coda
    So tread with care, ye deans-to-be,
    For thrones are thorny, as you’ll see.
    Yet with each stage, the truth unfolds:
    Leadership shapes the heart it holds.

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    Watering Hole

    Upcoming Special Watering Hole Event (Feb 6)

    Smart Links, Smarter Branding

    Link to attend online:
    Click Here

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    Harmony of Genes


    Objective:
    To construct and demonstrate an aesthetically pleasing tool for the eyes as well as an exploratory tool for the ears that integrates the massive database from NIH BLAST with an interactive model of the taxonomic “tree” of life. Since the genome of any organism is far too long to fully appreciate in a sequential approach and that DNA is a new source of meta data, this project is seeking to begin the process of unifying this data into an experience of genetics that is non-linear and educational. Does life echo
    throughout the Earth? Can students learn to hear it?

    “Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at
    what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.”

    -Loren Eiseley

    To continue more, Refer the whitepaper below

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    Authored by:
    Jason K. Brogden,
    Ariani Cindy Lopez,
    Ethan David Phan