Making a comeback
Web 1.0 era gaming and graphics firm MetaTools is back on the South Coast. The man at the helm, John Wilczak, is the same, but he has remade the company, salvaging the name after it became free again. And the mission is new: Conquer Apple’s iPhone with a new iteration of MetaSquares, the puzzle game Read More →
Quick diagnosis delivery – Carpinteria firm
A cancer patient lies on the operating table having a tumor removed. The surgical team wants to know whether they’ve removed all the offending tissue, but only a lab test can tell. Those tests, read by a pathologist, involve what’s known as immunohistochemistry, or IHC, and usually take at least an hour and half to Read More →
Building Intelligence
From his computer in Santa Barbara, Ed Richards can find out how hard a single air conditioner works at data center in Washington state and how humid the air is inside a Walgreen’s store in Austin, Texas. He sees it in real time, updated every few seconds. “Not many people in that store,” Richards says Read More →
Reach for the red planet
ATK Space Systems in Goleta celebrated last month when its solar panels and a boom arm, part of the Phoenix Lander mission to Mars, worked perfectly. Its future projects could get help from a test monitoring system designed by five undergraduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Like many South Coast technology companies, Read More →
