CS Professor Chandra Krintz presented a TEDx talk discussing how to use technology to make farmers more productive

Computer Science Professor Chandra Krintz recently gave a TEDx talk entitled Transforming us into a society of food producers. In her talk she discusses how the same data analysis and prediction techniques used by tech companies such as Amazon and Google for targeted advertisement and marketing could be used to make farmers and ranchers more productive. The talk is based on the research she has done with other members of UCSB's RACElab, including Professor Rich Wolski and PhD students Nevena Golubovic and Varun Kulkarni. Their research is part of a $1.2 million NSF grant in collaboration with agricultural researchers at CSU Fresno and Cal Poly on research and education for sustainable agriculture practices. The work is also in collaboration with the Food, Water, Energy Nexus effort from the NIFA, NSF, USDA, and others.

Her talk can be viewed here.