UCSC has said that it hopes the program will help students enter what has become a rapidly growing industry with applications for health care, therapy, security, the military, education, and product creation.
To this end, the Silicon valley initiatives have sought to create a number of opportunities for UC affiliates to work with industry leaders.
SVLink is a non-profit run by the University of California, Santa Cruz and managed by the Office of Industry Alliances and Technology Commercialization (IATC) at the Silicon Valley Campus.
The trust enables teachers, principals, social workers, public and mental health professionals, judges, and probation officers to share information in real time about students and the services they are receiving to better address their needs.
It houses five game-related research labs that study a diversity of games, working on projects that range from artificial intelligence to level design.
It studies, among other things, autonomous systems, human sensing, smart cities and buildings, power grids, agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and connected health.
Its goal is to create a path for graduate students to become entrepreneurs in the tech industry, drawing on the expertise of Silicon Valley experts.
[18] The Genomics Institute was established in 2014 to research ways to employ intelligent diagnostics to get cures to people more quickly and to understand the genetic underpinnings of a variety of diseases and conditions.
It creates open-source genomics platforms and other technologies to find evolutionary patterns and the genetic underpinnings of disease, and it is committed to openly sharing its innovations to promote a healthier society.