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UCSB RACELab wins best paper award at IEEE Cluster Conference

The RACELab in the Computer Science Department at UCSB directed by Professors…

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Mark Rodwell Leads New Terahertz-Tange Communications Center

Imagine a roomful of 1,000 students all simultaneously experiencing an augmented reality lecture and demonstration. Or, how about riding…

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Shuji Nakamura reveals how LEDs are benefitting the developing world

Author: Shuji Nakamura
Date: January 23, 2018

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UCSB professor and Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura awarded the 2018 Zayed Future Energy Prize

The new year is off to a strong start for UC Santa Barbara engineer Shuji Nakamura. The materials professor, who is also the…

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Professor Clint Schow Receives High Honor from IEEE

Three UC Santa Barbara engineering faculty members have been named fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (…

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Unite To Light Sends 9,000 Solar Lights to Rohingya refugees Bangladesh

Most of them have come on foot. Trekking through hills and across rivers from their home country and into Bangladesh, some 600,000…

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California Gets New Light Bulb Efficiency Standards Jan. 1

One of the least energy efficient products in modern history, the incandescent light bulb dating back to the days of Thomas Edison, is…

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Science Meets Hollywood in the Raw Science Film Festival

Interstellar travel, light-driven spacecraft, suspended animation. It sounds like the formula for countless science fiction stories, but…

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Optical engineer Daniel J. Blumenthal named a 2017 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Inventiveness may be its own reward, but the recognition that sometimes results can be pretty gratifying, too.

Such is the case…

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National Climate Assessment Identifies Human Activity as Primary Cause of Global Warming

This report is an authoritative assessment of the science of climate change, with a focus on the United States. It represents the first…

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Thermoelectric power: New ways to Power Portable Electronics

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported significant advances in the…

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UC Named National Leader in Clean Energy

The University of California was recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today (Oct. 23) for its commitment to ‘green’…

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Photodetector Uses Ultra-Thin Materials to Increase Efficiency

A prototype developed using quantum mechanical processes could usher in a novel class of ultra-efficient photodetectors that would…

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Newsletter: October 2017

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Estimating & Understanding Architectural Risk

While new technologies present tremendous promise for doing energy efficient computing, designing an efficient computer system in an era…

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New NSF Funding for Next-Generation Cloud Federation Via A Geo-Distributed Database

Computer Science Professors Rich Wolski and Chandra Krintz have received new funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for "…

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