Two locals make Tech Crunch list of 10 Men Making Waves for Women in Tech
by Ruthie Farmer Tech Crunch [Editor’s note: Kudos to two locals who made the Tech Crunch list 10 Men Making Waves For Women In Tech: (1) Charlie..
Santa Cruz Tech Ecosystem
UCSC genomics center awarded $11M grant
by Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz (Photo credit: Elena Zhukova) UC Santa Cruz leads $11 million Center for Big Data in Translational Genomics National Institutes..
Launch Brigade seeks votes for $150K grant
by Chris Miller Founder, Launch Brigade “The funds will be used to create curriculum, lease space for a lab, pay instructors, and execute a 12-16 week..
Wages: Monterey County vs. Silicon Valley
By Jim Johnson The Compensation Depot [Editor’s note: Santa Cruz Tech Beat published Jim Johnson’s How do Santa Cruz wages really compare to..
Atlanta crime rate reduced by 19% with Predictive Policing
by PredPol Blog Post PredPol shares their story about Atlanta Police Department’s success in reducing their crime rate by 19 percent with predictive policing..
Innovating backwards & forwards
by Alex Cowan alexandercowan.com “Explorers need help too.” Among other things, I’m an advisor to startup’s and ‘intrapreneurial’ ventures...
Why is infrastructure so expensive and so necessary?
by Chris Neklason Cruzio CTO and Civinomics advisor “At Cruzio, we’ve been told in all earnestness more than once that ‘anyone with a pickup..
Round-the-clock work on new Ebola genome browser
by Guy Lasnier UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute releases bioinformatic tool to assist vaccine efforts The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute..
Puma pounce: Smart wildlife collar records energetics
By Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz High-tech collars enable scientists to record the energetics of mountain lion hunting behavior, showing why cats use “stalk..
Human genome was shaped by an evolutionary arms race with itself
by Tim Stephens UC Santa Cruz New study of primate genomes reveals an ongoing battle to control “jumping genes,” driving the evolution of greater..