CSE will use Yahoo!’s cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale systems software research and explore new applications that analyze Internet-scale data sets, ranging from voting records to online news sources

This year's Big Ideas first prize of $13,000 went to the San Quentin All-access computer center project. Read more about it and the other prize winners.

Opinion Space, an experimental system for visualizing opinions and exchanging ideas, encourages people to express their opinions and lets them visualize where they stand relative to the diversity of other viewpoints.

Cisco has provided funding and equipment--and challenging real-world problems--for teaching and research laboratories at the engineering school, enabling UCSC students to work directly with Cisco engineers on networking projects.