Research Spotlight
Researchers Bring Cutting-Edge Wireless Technology to Rural Africa
UCSB Computer Science and Film and Media Studies Professors Receive NSF Grant
to Bring Wireless Technology to Rural Africa
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — The city of Macha, located in the southern province of Zambia in sub-Saharan Africa, has a population of roughly 130,000. It also has Internet connectivity, but for only a small group of users — [...]
Information Network Academic Research Center
The grand challenge of Information Network Academic Research Center is to develop science that enables the modeling, design, analysis, and prediction of behaviors of networks, and to develop fundamental underpinnings to enable humans and networks of disparate information sources to discover and optimize information and knowledge from the full range of structured and unstructured sources.
INARC@UCSB [...]
Computer Science at UCSB Jumps into the Top 10
Computer Science at UCSB Jumps into the Top 10
Santa Barbara, California, October 18, 2010—The National Research Council (NRC) has released its rankings on a broad range of university graduate programs. The College of Engineering at UCSB, and in particular, the Department of Computer Science, has shown an impressive rise in the rankings; moving from 48th [...]
Making Three-dimensional Imaging a Reality
Making Three-dimensional Imaging a Reality using Mass-Market Digital Cameras, Camcorders and Phones (A short movie of a 3D head model built by Visualsize is available at http://www.visualsize.com/3ddemo/videos/amr/amr.htm.)
Imaging technologies have advanced significantly over the past 20 years or so. Film cameras are now largely replaced by digital ones, and a significant percentage of cell phones sold [...]
UCSB at the Forefront of “Cloud Computing”
The Computer Science Department at UCSB includes a leading group of researchers in the area of “cloud computing.” Cloud computing has received significant attention lately because of its potential to revolutionize the way that the Internet works. With cloud computing, the Internet becomes the super highway that connects users to vast compute, storage, and networking [...]
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