Tag Archive: UCSB
UC IT Blogger
March 6, 2019
All Articlescollaboration, Holly Ober, Los Alamos National Laboratory, UC Los Angeles, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, UCR, UCSB, UCSD
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…
Read more about University of California and Los Alamos National Laboratory Researchers Receive $3.6M to Secure Smart Campuses
UC IT Blogger
February 13, 2019
All ArticlesEvents, innovation, Sautter Awards, UC Santa Barbara, UCCSC, UCSB, UCTech
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…
Read more about Sautter Award Applications Due May 3
UC IT Blogger
February 6, 2019
All ArticlesEvents, UC Santa Barbara, UCCSC, UCSB, UCTech, UCTech 2019
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…
Read more about UCTech 2019: Call for Proposals
UC IT Blogger
November 7, 2018
All Articles, Feature Articlesagriculture, AgTech, computer science, Lindcove Research and Extension Center, LREC, SmartFarm, Susan Rambo, technology, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
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…
Read more about Wireless Smart Farming to Keep Frost Away From Citrus
UC IT Blogger
October 17, 2018
All ArticlesCybersecurity, Information Security, National Cyber Security Awareness Month, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB, WiFi
By Kevin Valdez and Julie Goldstein.
- How do I connect securely when I’m on campus?
- If you have the option, connect to a wired port on campus. If you have to use wireless, make sure you are connected…
Read more about FAQ for Connecting to the Internet Securely
UC IT Blogger
July 24, 2018
All ArticlesCIO, EDUCAUSE, ITLC, Julia Chen, Matt Hall, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
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…
Read more about Survey Reveals Top Issues for UC IT
UC IT Blogger
January 3, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesJulia Cohen, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
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…
Read more about Better Science Faster
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September 27, 2017
All Articles, Feature ArticlesLisa Klock, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB, Women in Technology
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…
Read more about Empowering Women in Information Technology: The UCSB Women in Technology Initiative
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May 16, 2017
All Articles, Feature ArticlesElizabeth Belding, Sonia Fernandez, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
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…
Read more about Internet in Wide Open Spaces
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April 18, 2017
All Articles, Feature ArticlesChandra Krintz, Rick Wolski, UC Santa Barbara, UCSB
By Rich Wolski, Computer Science Professor, UC Santa Barbara. At the Sedgwick Reserve in Santa Barbara County, hundreds of thousands of animal photos are generated each month by remote, motion-detection camera traps. These images are used continuously to determine species…
Read more about Where’s the Bear? Automatic Image Classification for Wildlife Research
