A $14.5M bet on computing supremacy
Last week, I spoke with Fareed Zakaria, an author and editor-at-large for Time magazine as well as a CNN host. He’s put a lot of thought into the “rise of the rest” — that is, what the post-American world is going to look like.
You can trot out the statistics of your choice to show how America is fast losing its technological edge. We lag other countries in math and science scores. But Zakaria pointed out a number to me that’s much more foreboding — citations in peer-reviewed research.
UCSB engineering recruits Bell Labs veteran
UC Santa Barbara has named a new dean of its College of Engineering.
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Higher taxes are an inevitable consequence of ad-hoc policymaking, according to UC Santa Barbara economics professor Peter Rupert. Rupert, who heads the UCSB Economic Forecast Project, told a breakfast audience of Santa Barbara-area business leaders on Dec. 8 that temporary subsidies such as “cash for clunkers” and payments to first-time homebuyers were largely useless. He Read More →
Read More →Roof collapses at UCSB
UC Santa Barbara closed its Bren School of Environmental Science & Management after a 4,000-pound section of ceiling collapsed in the building’s lobby on Oct. 30. No one was injured, and the building was evacuated safely, according to a UCSB news release. Classes in the building were cancelled for two days. University officials re-opened the Read More →
Read More →Nanosociology: UCSB center studies impact of nanotech
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have secured another $6.1 million grant to keep asking the big questions about very small things. UCSB is well known for its nanotechnology research. It splits the California NanoSystems Institute with UCLA, and researchers at its Center for Nanomedicine have already made the cover of Science, one of the most Read More →
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