Artist Sarah Rosalena featured in six Getty PST ART shows, gains spot in LACMA’s collection

Featured prominently in Getty’s Art + Science Collide-themed initiative, Rosalena discusses computational craft, a hybrid practice between analog and digital techniques, in a recent episode of UCSB’s video series, “Research in 60 Seconds.”

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Federal broadband subsidies boosted rural internet, but service faded once funding ended

“We wanted to study how effective such an approach of directly subsidizing the ISPs to operate as regulated monopolies is in these rural areas, versus the ones that are served by regular monopolies, or compared to competitive markets,” said Arpit Gupta, an assistant professor of computer science.

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Linguistic artifacts: UCSB Library acquires rare Chinese audio recordings

The Paul Georg von Möllendorff Chinese cylinders include 16 recordings from the late 1800s that together reflect differences in regional languages at the time.

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