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NMRI a partner in MacArthur Foundation funded "Sampling the Sea"
Posted April 24th, 2009 by Bruce Caron(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today announced that the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media at UC Santa Barbara is one of 14 institutions throughout the world to be awarded a prestigious Digital Media and Learning Innovation grant.
Building a Web 2.5 social network and community
Posted December 2nd, 2008 by Bruce CaronThe Research Institute was given a contract from UCSB to help manage the planning phase of a proposal to the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. This proposal, DigitalOcean, involves the development of a dedicated social network (ECOSNet) linked to other Web 2.0 services, such as Flickr and Google Ocean, and building a strong community of users who will provide content for the system.
