Registration for the 2019 UCTech Conference, held at UC Santa Barbara, July 15-17, is now open! This year’s theme is “IT Uncorked – Unleashing the potential of our IT ingenuity”.
From its humble beginnings as a 21-attendee “academic” software…
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A consortium consisting of UC Riverside, UCLA, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, together with Los Alamos National Laboratory, was awarded $3.6 million for a three-year project, “Securing smart campuses: a holistic multi-layer approach,” through the 2018 UC Laboratory…
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It’ll be here before you know it. May 3 is the application deadline for UC’s 2019 Sautter Awards for Innovation in Information Technology. To apply, read the program description, listen to a recording about how to write a…
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February 6, 2019 All Articles 0
The 2019 UCTech Conference (formerly known as UCCSC) will take place at UC Santa Barbara, July 15-17! Session proposal submissions are now open.
This year’s theme is “IT Uncorked – Unleashing the potential of our IT ingenuity” and the program…
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November 7, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Susan Rambo. Computer science researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, are using the internet of things to prove that smart farming can be a farm implement as basic as the tractor and plough.
The husband and wife…
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October 17, 2018 All Articles 0
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By Julia Chen. For the second year in a row, UCSB CIO Matthew Hall conducted a survey of the UC location CIOs, asking them to prioritize issues for IT leadership at the university. The survey presented a number of key…
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January 3, 2018 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Julie Cohen. In 2012, scientists at UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) launched the Ocean Health Index (OHI), a scientific framework to measure and track the health of the world’s oceans. Working in…
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September 27, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 3
By Lisa Klock. In February 2017, several women and I launched the UC Santa Barbara Women in Technology (WIT) initiative, to promote women’s leadership, success, and economic advancement – in short, to empower women working in technology.
Influenced by the…
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May 16, 2017 All Articles, Feature Articles 0
By Sonia Fernandez, Engineering and Public Affairs Writer, UC Santa Barbara. Those of us with easy access to the internet often take for granted the plethora of information at…
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