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Digital NEST opening sooner than expected
by Sara Isenberg Santa Cruz Tech Beat, Publisher Here are a few updates from Digital NEST as they share progress toward opening their doors. Read on to learn more about their grand opening, change in […]
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 McDowell, UCSC Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate […]
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 of Health awards UC Santa Cruz funding for new research […]
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 class in each track for 6-10 students in the […]
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 Silicon Valley? on September 11, 2014, and How do Santa Cruz and […]
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 History of Atlanta’s Predictive Policing Deployment Aggregate crime decreased by 7% […]
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. I’m no sage, so what I can offer them is advice on where to focus and […]
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 truck and a pair of pliers’ could set up a fiber […]
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 Tuesday (September 30, 2014) released a new Ebola genome browser to […]
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 and pounce” and how they overpower large prey Scientists at the […]