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You live here, why not work here?
By Bob Cagle CEO of productOps and President of Santa Cruz Works “Santa Cruz Works is really about seeding awareness.” Santa Cruz Works grew out of a discussion more than a year ago. We were […]
Santa Cruz Works website launches
“There is a large group of workers commuting over the hill daily. The mission of Santa Cruz Works is to make those professionals more aware of the growing opportunities right here at home.” Santa Cruz […]
The Gregarious Machines
by Paige Welsh How UCSC researchers are making computers more human If you’ve ever tried to have a conversation with your phone Joaquin-Pheonix-style, you know that Siri is a pretty frigid date. Computers really struggle […]
Acorn App: From Santa Cruz to New York City and back again
By Frank Scott Krueger Acorn Co-Founder & CDO [Editor’s note: Acorn has been covered by Tech Crunch, Alley Watch, Santa Cruz Sentinel, and featured on Fox Business as the startup of the week.] The story of Acorn: […]
Erodr app for college students goes national
(via PR Newswire) Soquel-based father-son team launch social network app Erodr, a new mobile social network for college students, announced on August 26 that it is opening up registration to college students everywhere in the […]
When Robots Write Songs
by William Hochbert The Atlantic [Editor’s note: Santa Cruz Tech Beat previously wrote about UCSC Professor Emeritus David Cope in JamBandit puts music fans in the spotlight, February 13, 2014.] Bach, Coltrane, McCartney: New algorithms can […]
Cabrillo engineering camp inspires girls
by Kara Gusman Santa Cruz Sentinel (photo credit: Emma Brokaw — Santa Cruz Sentinel) After carefully fitting a wine cork onto a thumb-sized generator, Scotts Valley sixth-grader Seri Thompson pumped her fist with glee. Along […]
We Are Tuul
by Wayne Tsuchitani Tuul [Editor’s note: Santa Cruz Tech Beat published a previous article about Tuul on July 5, 2014.] Reimagining Customer Support Earlier this year my co-founder, Toby Corey, and I were batting around […]
Reaching for Star Students in COSMOS
by Paige Welsh California’s top high school students learn graduate school material at COSMOS summer school Summer school once conjured dread in the hearts of teens. Who wants watch the clock tick by in a […]
Cancer study reveals powerful new system for classifying tumors
by Tim Stephen UC Santa Cruz One in ten cancers were reclassified in clinically meaningful ways based on molecular subtypes identified by a comprehensive analysis of data from thousands of patients Cancers are classified primarily […]