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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February 13, 2019 All Articles 0
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
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 to your…
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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 our fingertips as well as the ability to communicate — seemingly…
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