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Fifty years of the internet

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By December, 1969, there were only four nodes – UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Utah. How did we go from collaboration to competition, from consensus to dissention, from a reliable digital resource to an amplifier of questionable information?

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

InfoChachkie

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. To the casual observer, it may appear that Eucalyptus and RightScale’s respective solutions are competitive. You can manage across AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Eucalyptus, for instance.”.

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Interview with Mike Hopkins, ICE Energy

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. The reason they do that, is we solve the peak demand problem they have on the grid. megawatts of energy. Both are very expensive.